December, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
575 
A HUNT WITH A SQUIR- 
REL DOG 
( Continued from page 537) 
shallow valley. The woods consisted 
mainly of large oaks, many of which 
were hollow and in some of which Jack 
treed squirrels that disappeared in holes 
that made a safe refuge for them. By 
steady hunting we managed to get three 
gray squirrels and two black ones. This 
hunting was marked by two incidents 
that were somewhat out of the usual 
order. It was about the middle of the 
afternoon when I heard Jack barking 
excitedly near the edge of the woods. 
When I got to him at the foot of a hol- 
low stub, some fifteen feet in height, he 
watched me intently until I cut a slender 
pole and inserted it into the stub through 
an opening at the bottom. When I had 
it in the proper place I shook it vigor- 
ously and out of the top of the stub 
sprang two gray squirrels and a black 
squirrel. Jack caught and killed one of 
these in midair, and I managed to shoot 
the black squirrel while it was running 
up the trunk of a tree nearby. 
The other event occurred just at the 
close of day after the sun had set and 
the air had begun to grow chilly and the 
woods gloomy. In the hollow where the 
trees were tallest I heard Jack barking 
in an uncertain sort of manner. I 
worked my way down towards him and 
saw him watching something in the top 
of a tree. His attitude told me that he 
saw the object; in a minute I saw it, a 
perfectly white squirrel lying out on a 
slender limb far up in the top of the 
tree. Against the sky I could see it dis- 
tinctly. From the end of its nose to the 
tip of its long tail hanging down over 
the branches it was snow-white. The 
squirrel never stirred while Jack and I 
stood looking at it. My gun came to my 
shoulder, but I did not shoot. Did I 
want a white squirrel, a thing so un- 
natural, so uncanny? No, I did not. 
Jack and I turned away and left it there. 
That evening by the cheerful kitchen fire 
Oliver told me of the belief that the kill- 
ing of a white squirrel brought death to 
the gunner within a year. I was young 
enough to place some faith in such a 
superstition, and I went to bed that night 
thankful that Jack’s uncertainty about 
the squirrel had aroused the misgivings 
in my own mind. 
O N the second day Jack and I hunted 
the chestnut ridges at the east and 
north of the farm. Here the woods 
were quite open, the trees were smaller 
and the hiding places for squirrels less 
frequent. It was a quiet, sunny day, and 
a squirrel feeding on the ground among 
the dry leaves made a great racket. Jack 
could hear the squirrels at long distances 
and he nearly ran his legs off chasing 
them up the trees. On this day I killed 
six black squirrels and seven gray squir- 
rels. Two of these I killed before I saw 
them, and it was only my faith in Jack 
that made me shoot. Once I located him 
at the foot of a tall, slender pine with 
a thick top in which I could not see the 
least sign of a squirrel. But Jack seemed 
so anxious to have me shoot that I came 
close to the trunk of the tree and sent 
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