208 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOKEST. 



The red squirrel is also a thief. He frequently 

 has an encounter with a chipmunk at the latter's door- 

 step, and I have caught him in 

 the act of 

 stealing the 

 stores of his 



The Chipmunk scolding. 



more provi- 

 dent cousin. A chipmunk has his hole just beneath 

 a pine tree outside of my garden fence, and most of 



travels back 



and the kitch- 



(he has large 



full of prov- 



while there 



the time the little creature 

 and forth between this 

 en door with his cheeks 

 pouches in them) stuffed 

 ender. Every once in a 

 is a squabble under the 

 pine tree, and I well 

 know what it means 

 — the red squirrel is 

 there, thieving, per- 

 haps. He is a good deal of 

 a bully, and when it suits his 

 fancy he attacks the hoards of 

 the field mouse, which are care 

 fully tucked away under some de- 

 caying stump, and, utterly regard- 

 less of the agitation he is creating "He attacks the 



^ hoards of the 



among the proprietors, who survey field mouse." 



