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Winter Store of the Gray Squirrel. 
IN a recent issue of Forest anp STREAM 
“Sharp Eyes’ states his belief that the gray 
squirrel doesnot lay up a store of food for 
winter. I am inclined to believe the gray squir- 
rel is not such a fool as this would seem to 
| make him, and will give my reasons for such 
_ belief. My father moved into the State of 
_ Indiana forty years ago and settled in the timber, 
and was brought up among gray squirrels, and 
the same might also be said of the writer. Many 
_ atime have I watched the gray squirrel ascend 
_a hickory tree, and taking a nut in his mouth 
carry it to some hiding place and return again 
_ for another; but I never followed one up to 
see where the hiding place for his store was 
situated, whether in the ground or in some hol- 
low tree. My father has seen them keep this up 
for hours, and so have I. In winter I have seen 
places where they have: dug into the ground in 
perhaps a dozen places around one tree, and 
the fact that these trees were not all fruit-bear- 
ing trees leads to the belief that the squirrel 
had buried something there and knew just where 
to dig for it. Indeed, the most of the trees 
around which I have seen these holes were hol- 
low elms, or soft maples, and many times far 
removed from any nut-bearing trees of any kind. 
My father and I felled a huge ash one winter in 
which two gray squirrels had made their homes, 
and I found perhaps four or five dozen of good 
hickory nuts in the hollow, and it looks very 
much as if they were placed there by these 
squirrels. With all these observations before 
me, you can count me in as one who believes 
the gray squirrel lays up his store of food for 
winter. AL WS. 

A Tame Crow. | 
A TAME crow owned by a friend of mine, Mr. 
A. W. Chapin, recognized Mr. C. as his master 
with as much apparent fidelity and intelligence 
as the most faithful dog. The crow was his 
constant companion when out of doors, follow- 
ing him far from home, always docile and under 
his complete control, yet wary and shy if 
Upon several occasions the bird accompanied 
his owner a distance of twenty miles to a neigh- 
boring village, keeping within sight of his car- 
riage, but occasionally lighting upon fences by 
the wayside, until he arrived at the place of 
destination. While there he would remain at 
or near the carriage until his master was ready 
to depart for home, when he would return with 
him in the same manner. 
He was very mischievous, and was an in- 
veterate thief, often purloining articles other 
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