Nature's Little Store-keeper. 287 
laboring most truly under an embarrassment of riches, the 
little fellow presents a most ludicrous appearance. 
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HACKEE, OR CHIPPING SQUIRREL. 
Laying up Food for the Famine of Winter. 
When menaced by foes, by which so defenceless and con- 
spicuous an animal is sure to be surrounded in great numbers, 
the Hackee makes at once for his burrow, and is there secure 
from the attacks of nearly all enemies. One foe there is, 
however, that cares naught for the burrow, but follows the 
poor Hackee through all of its windings, and never fails to 
attain his sanguinary object. This remorseless foe is the 
stoat, or ermine, whose only penxchant is the blood, and not 
the flesh, of his victim. 
Early in November the Hackee moves into his winter- 
quarters, excepting in occasional instances when the sun 
