June 17, 1911.] 
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through the squirrel’s neck and brought it 
somersaulting to the ground. 
The sun was brightening the higher treetops 
as, ten minutes later, I climbed the “great lot” 
bars into the “hill lot,” where colonial furrows 
were still traceable among the heavy timber, 
and where an occasional gnarled apple tree 
yielded its worthless nubbins yearly to the 
grouse. The hill lot was a huge tract, made up 
ot swale, dry maple swamp, and hummocks of 
mixed pine and hardwood, having on the east 
another forest-grown farm known as the Titter 
Joe Dean place (an eponymous title bestowed 
in honor of a long dead farmer noted for foolish 
giggle), and on the west a vast reach of wood¬ 
lands extending to the New York State line. 
1 lie ‘hill lot” was never good squirrel country, 
but one had to cross it to get to the walnut 
grove on what was called the Holmes place, and 
there was a delightful footpath to follow’. It 
was midway the length of this footpath, in a 
belt of oaks between two narrow swales, that I 
encountered the migration. 
must, I think, have been between forty 
and fifty squirrels altogether, but the commo¬ 
tion they caused in the treetops as they leaped 
nimbly from branch to branch was apparently 
the work of a hundred. They made a sound at 
a distance like a strong isolated breeze, and for 
a moment such I thought it was. Then the 
patchy character of the disturbance became 
. visible, and a moment later I saw a gray form 
hurtling through the space between two trees. 
As the animals were traveling directly toward 
me, I had but to stand still to gain the ad- 
vantage of the ambushes. 
A squirrel moving rapidly in the treetops is 
none too easy a mark for a rifle, however, and 
in spite of everything being in my favor, my 
first shot was a disgraceful miss. At the report 
e\ery sound was stilled; the squirrels vanished 
like phantoms. I stood like a statue, and 
presently here and there in the foliage sudden 
quivers betokened sciurine restless or curiosity. 
Ihen with a startling scratch and bark a big 
gray squirrel concluded his private inspection 
ot me from behind an adjacent tree trunk and 
bolted for the leafy safety overhead. Halfway 
up he paused for a moment, like Lot’s wife, for 
another look, and was immediately turned, if 
not into salt, at least into something that would 
presently require it. 
T .^ hereafter for an hour or more I was busy, 
the first five squirrels were killed within a 
circle not over 100 feet in diameter, but then 
the animals scattered, and I had increasing dif¬ 
ficulty in keeping in touch with the main move¬ 
ment. Finally, after ten minutes’ delay, caused 
by a particularly artful specimen in the top of a 
hemlock tree, I lost track of the migration, and, 
though I spent an hour or more in trying to 
a S a in, I had at last to acknowledge my¬ 
self beaten. I therefore gave up the search, and 
seeking out a comfortable seat, ranged eleven 
gray forms before me on the ground, that in 
their inspiring presence I might make a heartier 
meal of ham sandwiches. Afterward I wandered 
haphazardly through the woods, picking up a 
straggler here and there, till at midday, when 
I started lunchward, I had fifteen gray squirrels 
stowed in the capacious pockets of my shootino- 
coat. Laid out later on the loading table in 
the gun-room they made a brave show, and 
when magically cooked by an old plantation 
negress they proved to be as pleasing in the 
assimilation as they had been in acquisition. 
Lray squirrels are now extremely scarce in the 
Old Bay State, and my cousin, a keen and ob¬ 
servant sportsman, tells me that he has seen 
but two in the past twelvemonth. 
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