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HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION 



GRAY SQUIRREL. 



quadrupeds; and we are thankful that none of 

 them yield "fur!" Thus far the rapacious maw 

 of the "fur trade" has not demanded the skins 

 of the Woodchuck, Gray Squirrel, Chip- 

 munk, Flying Squirrel or Red Squirrel, 

 But whenever any of those species are definitely 

 placed in the class of fur-bearing animals, their 

 doom is sealed. At present, — when not easily 

 found and killed, — they are permitted to live 

 and make glad the waste places. 



Even the finest forest is half dead if it be 

 destitute of the vital spark that wild-animal 

 life alone can give. 



In cheerful companionship and popular in- 

 terest, the Gray Squirrel would be worth half 

 a million dollars a year to the people of New 

 York — ;'/ they would but let it alone! But 



EASTERN RED SQUIRREL. 



where is the Gray Squirrel today ? You may 

 ride or drive in midsummer from one end of 

 New York to the other without finding a single 

 one alive, unless it is in a protected park ! 



Americans are queer animals. There are 

 men and boys who still think it is "sport," 

 and "hunting," to shoot squirrels, — under far 

 less difficulty and danger than would lie in pot- 

 ting chickens in a farmer's orchard ! And we 

 Americans actually eat a rodent with flesh so 

 rat-like that the white men of all other nations. 



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EASTERN CHIPMUNK. 



