WINTER WAYS OF ANIMALS 161 
a dining room. A squirrel in a grove near my 
cabin sat on the same limb during each meal. 
He would take a cone, climb up to this limb, 
about six feet above the snow, back up against 
the tree and begin eating. One day an owl 
flew into the woods. The squirrel dropped his 
cone and scampered up into the treetop with- 
out a chirp. 
Another day a coyote came walking through 
the grove without a sound. He had not seen 
me and I did not see him until the squirrel sud- 
denly exploded with a sputtering rush of squirrel 
words. He denounced the coyote, called him a 
number of names. The coyote did not like it, 
but what could he do? He took one look at 
the squirrel and walked on. The squirrel, hang- 
ing to the cone in his right hand, waved it 
about and cussed the coyote as far as he could 
see him. 
A number of species of chipmunks store 
quantities of food, mostly weed seed. But no 
one appears to know much of the winter life 
of chipmunks. 
Chipmunks around my home remain under 
ground more than half of the year. Two near 
my cabin were out of their holes only four 
months one year. They were busy these four 
months gathering seeds and peanuts which they 
stored underground in their tunnels. Twice by 
