ten the whole householi has aLoed. a pleased and smiling nuit 
, Just outside the pantry door. 
t is said that a dog is a better intuitive judge of ene. 
uman being, | ut I am sure that the little wild creature 
the woods and fields are eanally good intuitive judges of aoe 
‘There are some persons who constantly attract birds 
mals to eae eke by what we might, literally, call the 
lov , 
A friend of mine, while tramping along a mountain road, last 
1er, sat down to rest on alog by the wayside. Presently, a 
| Sahpeian squirrel came ‘hitching’ down the Be of a tree 
by, st opp ig to look questioningly every few feet. My friend 
ly sat sul and watched the lit Ue ello. Gro wing Ler 
he 
u riend’s oe nded to the ea again, 
off édieating,? says, ‘as distinctly, and merrily as 
veard any human being ahah In two or Fae minutes 
back again, frisking about my friend’s feet, and ended up . 
rching on the toe of his boot and chattering aiaat y at him. 
Here was an instance of unerring perception of dispoditin on. 
art of one of the shyest of wood creatures, and an evidence o 
put meely friendly = loving characters of the little wild-folk 
[¢ fri one of the gentlest and sweetest of men, 
rrel divined ‘the love in his heart and kn rig ik wonkd. 355. 
and sweet to make his pretty appeal to i : 
tis not difficult ba pete the suspicion and Best of any 
ture, if one be sincere and genuine in his friendly advan- 
the OR the 
the he ue they see ae to be: ¢ ‘pally. "think : 
bee of security when ‘hey lew aw al for a 
the ‘o my protection 
we are right minded toward them, t the out | ion od s 
tile creatures who will share with us the purest and ees S 
nd most deighitul Cae ray" There is no treachery, no — 
ess, no wlte in their love. [It is more like the 
cea of a-child than the - ‘etiberatig, Ve 
tsendship of 3 an older | igs Thoreau 
