A DIGRESSION ON SQUIRRELS 



rooms and make their nests in these quar- 

 ters, where they are so certain of immunity 

 from all molestation. 



But our home, although tree-surrounded 

 and standing back a little, is not remote 

 enough from the street to- invite such confi- 

 dence; at least, never before this remark- 

 able morning had it been so honored, and 

 I could not imagine what had drawn this 

 little waif to us and make him so eager to 

 enter. 



However, here he was, and we were de- 

 termined he should not have cause to brand 

 us as inhospitable. To have enabled him to 

 enter by doing away with the screens would 

 'have been carrying altruism too far; but we 

 hit upon a compromise. A supply of nuts 

 and bits of paper and other things suitable 

 for bedding were placed in a convenient 

 corner of an outer window-sill. The little 

 visitor approved of our offerings, but his 

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