Bannertail 



flat and still as death. Do not go to it. 

 Let it come to you, if it will. 



In the air, if there is danger near, as 

 from Hawks, do not stop until you have 

 at least got into a dense thicket, or, better 

 still, a hole. 



If you find a nut when you are not 

 hungry, bury it for future use. Never- 

 theless this lesson counted for but little 

 now, as all last year's nuts were gone, 

 and this year's far ahead. 



If you must travel on the ground, stop 

 every little while at some high place to 

 look around, and fail not then each time 

 to fluff and jerk your tail. 



When in the distant limbs you see 

 something that may be friend or foe, 

 keep out of sight, but flirt your white 

 tail tip in his view. If it be a Gray coat, 

 it will answer with the same, the wigwag: 

 "I'm a Squirrel, too." 



Learn and practise, also, the far jumps 



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