THE RED SQUIRREL 



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HE red squirrel 

 is the most frol- 

 icsome and ju- 

 bilant of the family to which 

 he belongs. In the gloom of 

 the sombre coniferous for- 

 ests where his cousins could 

 not exist, he, with his in- 

 telligence, genuine industry, 

 and happy faculty of adapt- 

 ing himself to his surround- 

 ings, lives, thrives, and in- 

 creases. 



If the annual nut crop, 

 which furnishes the princi- 

 pal source of supply for 

 the winter store, should 

 fail, many of the squirrel 

 family would be forced to migrate; not so, however, 

 with the red, for he can keep the "wolf from the 

 door" by subsisting upon the buds, seeds, and 



