CHAPTER XXXII 

 SQUIRREL GAMES 



jAMES are used among wild 

 animals for the training of 

 the young. King of the 

 castle, tag, hide-and-seek, 

 follow-my-leader, catch-as- 

 catch-can, wrestling, coasting, high-dive, 

 and, in rare cases, even ball games are 

 enjoyed. Most of them were in some 

 sort played by the young Squirrels. But 

 these are world-wide, they had one or 

 two that were peculiarly their own, and 

 of these the most exciting was the danger- 

 ous game of "teasing the Hawk." 



Three kinds of big Hawks there are in 

 the Squirrel woods in summertime: the 



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