MORE SQUIRRELS 



prevent the lives of their owners from becoming 

 flat and monotonous. One of the most amus- 

 ing cases that has come to my knowledge 

 recently, is that of a squirrel which persisted in 

 hiding the nuts that were given him in a little 

 girl's hair, and continued bringing them and 

 tucking them away out of sight as long as she 

 would sit still for him to do so. 



The gray squirrel is not much seen during the 

 summer months, but in August one will begin to 

 see the young ones, rather more than half grown, 

 going about in pairs, or even three and four 

 together, especially late in the afternoon as the 

 sun gets low, or when the air has been cooled by 

 a shower. They are seldom accompanied by 

 their parents, and have evidently learned to shift 

 for themselves, gathering whatever of fruit or 

 berries the forest has to offer and eating it on the 

 spot, without attempting to put by any surplus 

 for future use. But when the summer is over, 

 and the nuts begin to ripen, they follow the ex- 



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