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curled up in their little house during daylight. At night, 

 however, their big, round, black eyes are wide open and 

 full of mischief. They will chase one another about the 

 room, up the curtains and along picture moulding until, 

 hard pressed by the pursuer, they make flights across the 

 room and start all over again. 



I ha\e caught several of the little sprites and photo- 

 graphed them on the ends of stumps, but I have tried in 

 vain to induce one of them to scale through the air so that 

 I might picture it in flight. 



Flying Squirrels and the little striped Chipmunks, while 

 of little use economically except that trees often take 

 their origin from nuts and seeds that they have planted, 

 do no harm, but the same cannot be said concerning the 

 larger Red and Gray Squirrels. 



Red Squirrels are very active and very destructive to 

 the nests and eggs of birds during the breeding season. 

 Time after time I have seen them sit in robin nests and 

 drain the eggs, have seen them pull down bush-nests and 

 devour the contents and have caught them in the act of 

 taking young birds. Gray Squirrels are clumsy compared 

 to the red species which accounts for their doing a little 

 less damage but their inclinations are just the same and 

 they never pass by a favorable oportunity to devour both 

 eggs and little birds. Beautiful as these squirrels are, our 

 country would be the gainer if every one was exterminated 

 and in their place we would have a large increase in the 

 more beautiful, more musical and more useful birds. 



TREE FROGS. 



We are all familiar with pond frogs, and with field 

 toads but not so many of us have ever seen that frog of 

 the woods, the Tree Frog. From June until August the 

 trilling of these frogs is one of the familiar sounds not 

 only of the woods but also of the orchards and often it 

 comes from the shade trees or ornamental shrubs about the 

 house, ^^^liile we cannot help hearing the song, it is quite 



