Bannertail 



the rind, oozing its green-brown juices, 

 stained their jaws and faces, yes,— their 

 arms and breasts, till it was hard to 

 recognize each other in these dark-brown 

 masks. For the disfigurement they cared 

 nothing. Only when the thick sap, half 

 drying, gummed his silvery plume, did 

 Bannertail abandon other pursuits to lick 

 and clear and thoroughly comb that price- 

 less tail; and what he did, the others, by 

 force of his energetic example, were soon 

 compelled to do. 



The Hunting-moon, September, came. 

 The nuts were fully grown but very green. 

 -» "Who owns the nuts ? " is an old question 



W ... in the woods. Usually they are owned 

 -J&tsj. }V." by the one who can possess them effec- 

 l f : / tively, although there are some restrain- 



ing, unwritten laws. 

 / Squirrels have three well-marked ideas 



.1' , of property. First, of the nesting-place 

 | / which they have possessed, and the nest 

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