LITTLE BEASTS OF FIELD AND WOOD 



quently than is generally supposed, for I as 

 often find them freshly made after a long spell of 

 zero weather as during a thaw. This track may 

 be best described as in size and appearance in- 

 termediate between that of the red squirrel and 

 white-footed mouse, occasionally showing the 

 footprints spread well apart laterally, as might 

 be . expected of a flying squirrel. The creature 

 that makes them, whatever it is, appears to 

 ramble about the woods and swamps pretty much 

 at random, climbing low bushes here and there 

 for seeds or frozen berries of one kind and 

 another, which are generally eaten as soon as they 

 are gathered. But if these really are flying 

 squirrel tracks, then in one way they indicate a 

 certain degree of intelligence which I had hardly 

 supposed them to possess, for they never lead 

 me directly to the home tree, usually terminating 

 at the foot of some tree or sapling quite devoid 

 of any cavity or nest. 



I should imagine that from their nocturnal 

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