CHAPTER XXX 



HIS AWAKENING 



[T was late on that fourth 

 day when Bannertail awoke. 

 He was a little better now. 

 He slowly went down that 

 tree, tail first; very sick, in- 

 deed, is a Squirrel when he goes down a 

 tree tail first. Sweet, cooling water was 

 his need, and again a fragrant meal of the 

 tonic strawberries ; then back to the tree. 

 Next day he was up with the morning 

 Robins, and now was possessed of the im- 

 pulse to go home. Vague pictures of his 

 mate and little ones, and the merry home 

 tree, came on his ever-clearer brain. He 

 set out with a few short hops, as he used 

 to go, and, first sign of sanity, he stopped 



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