50 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR PRIMARY GRADES 



been taken to the home of one of our teachers 

 to spend the vacation. Fanny was frightened at 

 being moved, and when her cage was set down in 

 the new quarters, and the box containing her little 

 ones was put in, she grabbed up one little one at 

 a time and lapped it. She seemed to be examin- 

 ing them to see if any harm had come to them. 

 At the close of the vacation they were three times 

 as large, at least, as at the beginning of it. 



When three and a half weeks old the little 

 squirrels had become very active. Hair covered all 

 of the body excepting the belly and the inner side 

 of the legs. These parts were still perfectly bare. 

 The tail had grown to be quite large. The order 

 in which the hair appeared was this — on head, on 

 body, on outer part of thigh, on outer part of leg. 

 The mother's call sounded like a buzz saw. 



When four and a half weeks old the eyelids were 

 much swollen and looked to be about ready to 

 open. The head of the squirrels still seemed out 

 of all proportion to the size of their bodies. For 

 several days previous to this, rusty hairs had been 

 noticeable on the squirrels' heads, mixed with the 

 gray, and now a rusty line showed low down on each 

 side of their bodies. While the outside of the 



