The Story of a Graysquirrel 



from tree to tree. You'll surely need 

 them some day. They are the only cer- 

 tain answer to the Red -eyed Fury that 

 lives on Mice, but that can kill Squirrels, 

 too, if he catches them; that climbs and 

 jumps, but cannot jump so far as the 

 Gray coats, and dare not fall from high, 

 for he has no plumy tail, nothing but a 

 useless little tag. 



Drink twice a day from the running 

 stream, never from the big pond in which 

 the grinning Pike and mighty Snapper 

 lie in wait. Go not in the heat of the day, 

 for then the Blacksnake is lurking near, 

 and quicker is he even than a Squirrel, 

 on the ground. 



Go not at dusk, for then the Fox and 

 the Mink are astir. Go not by night, 

 for then is the Owl on the war-path, silent 

 as a shadow; he is far more to be feared 

 than the swish-winged Hawk. Drink 

 then at sunrise and before sunset, and 



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