130 ANIMAL COMPETITORS 
his bill of fare. Few animals, remarks Manly 
Hardy, are more fond of meat: 
‘They will eat any kind of meat or fish as quickly 
as a cat and will live on it days when a chance offers. 
I have often had them eat each other when one was 
inatrap. Around camps where provisions are stored 
they are great pests. Their sense of smell must be 
very acute, as I have seen where one gnawed a large 
hole through a new overcoat to get at a bottle of 
coffee which one of my men had rolled up inside to 
keep it warm. The squirrel must have smelled it 
through all the folds of the thick cloth. Where not 
troubled they soon become very tame, often coming 
into a camp and stealing biscuit or gingerbread from 
the table. I have seen those which certainly could 
tell one person from another, as they would let one 
who had never molested them come very near, while, 
when a person: who had stoned them appeared, they 
would instantly dodge into a hole.’’ 
As summer advances the red squirrel finds 
ripe berries and fruit to his taste, and in July 
begins, in the northern coniferous woods, to 
attack the green cones, especially of the white 
pine, cutting them off ‘‘and burying them, half 
a dozen in a place, under the pine needles, to 
be dug up in the winter and spring, and opened 
for the seeds they contain.’’? At this season, 
