Dec. i7, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
997 
A SQUIRREL AND HIS FRIENDS. 
One of the park squirrels, a creature more 
enterprising than others of its kind, makes daily 
visits to the office of a Park place doctor, for, 
having evidently stripped the large walnut tree 
in Military Park, it began to consider other 
ways and means of obtaining provisions, and 
has found what promises to be an unlimited 
supply. 
Whenever Mr. Gray Squirrel sees one of his 
friends or a group of people standing at the 
window of the office for any length of time he 
hies himself quickly across the street, not a 
whit abashed nor a bit doubtful of his welcome, 
and, sitting on the window sill, places both his 
little paws against the pane as though begging 
to be allowed to enter. This he does as soon 
as the window is opened, and, making himself 
quite at home, he runs upstairs, chases about 
the hall, and, not satisfied with voluntary con¬ 
tributions from the amused occupants of the 
building, he goes to the place where the nuts 
are usually kept and unceremoniously helps him¬ 
self to as many as he wants. 
Down the street, within sight of the office 
window, is a large tree, leafless now, with a 
smooth gray bark, in the trunk of which is a 
good-sized hole wherein it is supposed the 
squirrel secretes his treasures. This is doubt¬ 
less only one of many hiding places, as it is 
not to be supposed for a moment that the wise 
little animal “puts all his eggs in one basket.” 
Bluejays are known to stow away in numberless 
holes and crannies all the titbits they can gather 
together, and sometimes a bluejay robs a 
squirrel, and vice versa. 
Mr. Gray Squirrel does not always select the 
same time of day for this demonstration of 
“cupboard love”—which is what some one 
termed his preference for the doctor’s office; 
sometimes he arrives in the forenoon, and then 
again as late as 4 o’clock P. M. 
Often there will be a crowd in the street 
watching his cunning maneuvers and keeping 
tab on all his movements as he frisks in and out 
of the window or climbs up to the shoulder of 
another good friend of his, a park policeman, 
all the time behaving like an indulged and petted 
child, rather proud of the attention he is attract¬ 
ing. 
Such little episodes somewhat restore our 
faith, in the kindness of humanity, which was 
considerably disturbed the other day by read¬ 
ing of an act of cruelty in New York where 
a man, accompanied by a child, entered one of 
the parks, ostensibly to feed the squirrels, and 
after gaining the confidence of the little crea¬ 
tures by displaying nuts, kicked one to death 
and was about to kill another when taken into 
custody by a policeman.—Newark Call. 
DEER WRECKS A GROCERY. 
A deer crossed the Connecticut River bridge 
recently, ran through several east side streets 
in Hartford, and finally becoming bewildered, 
dashed through the plate glass window of the 
Main street store of J. J. Atro & Co., at 1001. 
The deer, which was a young buck, went 
through the store to a room in the rear, where 
it tipped over several sacks of flour. Four 
policemen' engaged the deer’s attention and 
tried unsuccessfully to throw it. They were 
bowled over themselves and emerged white with 
flour and looking the worse for wear. 
Finally a butcher lassoed the deer and it was 
trussed up after another melee. The inside of 
the store looked as if a cyclone had struck it 
after the encounter.—Sun. 
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“And he was drowned?” 
“No, but he might well have been, for he 
lost his grip on his gallon jug, and it floated 
down stream, and he lives in a dry county.”— 
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