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it up to his mouth with the same movement, 

 swallowing everything alike, as if famished. 

 ^^^ookooskoos Over them the squirrel, which had whisked 

 up a tree at the first alarm, was peeking with 

 evil eyes over the edge of a limb, snickering 

 at the blood-stained snow and the dead cat, 

 scolding, barking, threatening the owl for 

 having disturbed the search for his stolen 

 walnuts. 



I caught that same owl soon after in a 

 peculiar way. A farmer near by told me 

 that an owl was taking his chickens regu- 

 larly. Undoubtedly the bird had been driven 

 southward by the severe winter, and had not 

 taken up regular hunting grounds until he 

 caught the cat. Then came the chickens. 

 I set up a pole, on the top of which was 

 nailed a bit of board for a platform. On the 

 platform was fastened a small steel trap, and 

 under it hung a dead chicken. The next 

 morning there was Kookooskoos on the plat- 

 form, one foot in the trap, at which he 

 was pulling awkwardly. Owls, from their 

 peculiar ways of hunting, are prone to 

 light on stubs and exposed branches ; and so 



