282 Life and Immortality. 
SAW-WHET OWL AND CHICKAREE SQUIRREL. 
Living Together in Perfect Harmony and Mutual Good-will. 
larger settlements there are thousands upon thousands of 
burrows, many of them occupied by the dogs, but more, 
perhaps, vacant. These latter are the homes of the owls. 
It is possible that the respective retreats of a dog and an owl 
may have one common vestibule, but this does not imply 
that they nest together. There are fewest owls in the towns 
most densely populated by the dogs and the greatest number 
in the deserted villages, and this is strong evidence in point. 
But the owls are by no means confined to the dog-towns, nor 
even to the similar communities of other gregarious sper- 
mophiles. They sometimes occupy the underground dens 
