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or goes back to the guides of these certain 
States, any mode of hunting will be tolerated. 
Not many years ago a wealthy, now resident, 
brewer made arrangements with three of these 
butcher-guides, and with a professional photog- 
rapher, plenty of the best to eat and more 
especially plenty of the best to drink, went 
forth on one of these hunts. The brewer and 
his photographer followed the leaders at their 
best gait, and when they came up to the game, 
a handsome but miserable, sick creature, they 
photographed him in different positions. Then, 
the last plate being exposed, the brave brewer 

RECREATION 
the chipmunk, and can positively assert that it 
is a tree climber. Again and again I have seen 
them of their own volition climb trees sixty or 
more feet high. Apparently the little animals 
are in search of birds’ nests, and on one occa- 
sion a few days ago a small red-eyed vireo flew 
at a couple of chipmunks, which were scamper- 
ing up a white oak tree, and knocked them both 
from their perch, giving them a fall of about 
twenty feet. 744- b- 
Chipmunks are omnivorous and will eat meat 
like a common brown rat. Two that I have in 
temporary captivity killed and ate five wood 
IN THE SQUIRREL WOODS 
put the poor animal out of its misery with four 
bullets in as many different parts of its anatomy. 
And this is called sport! Wm. W. Hart. 
Chipmunks Do Climb Trees and Do Eat Meat 
Of late I have noticed some discussion in the 
press relative to the tree climbing of chipmunks 
and some correspondents are most positive in 
their declarations that the tree-climbing habits 
of these little rodents is a fiction. But these 
people are,in error. For twenty consecutive 
seasons spent in my camp I have daily observed 
mice in six days, leaving nothing but the skins 
of the mice to tell of the bloody work. In cap- 
turing a mouse the chipmunk springs on it like 
a cat and holds it by placing one foreleg each 
side of the mouse and then kills it by biting 
through the jugular vein. It first eats out the 
eyes of the mouse, then the brain and after that 
all the bones and flesh. 
One old chipmunk at a neighboring camp 
took after a striped wood frog and the latter 
kept up a constant squealing noise as it hopped 
this way and that to escape its enemy. The 
frog, which was a large one, escaped by doubling 
