The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-11

dogs and calling out at boys, They tell me
its nightmare. I don't know what 1t Is, bnt
] know they have me nearly wild worrying.
And while he l.. talking he gets worked NJ
Il would often have liked Ia have a yet SPUR
rel" lie goes on. but somehow ! couIdh I
make up my mind TO take away their freedom
! like them so much free. What pleasure does
n man have in jail? And wouldn't II DE s"iul
to 90 10 jail, just for n persons amusement
80 with caging a squirrel,
The squirrels are out a, daylight and 20
up the trees ~ soon a. the shadows begin 10
tell Of the coming night. N noon they sIeep
in their sunny cradles in the treetops. except
In winter. Then they choose the warInest
hours for going down the trees ana travelling
about.
Wheeler. the old man with the cr'i'ches.
who for many wears has been gatskecper NJ
Fast Ninety-Siyth street. loves III" SQUIRRELS,
TOO, and his great, kind blue eyes and gentle
voice have won him many little friends an'org
them Ne has his pets named pinkie AVID
Eva and Buffalo RiI and Dewey and many
Others, bur the one he calls Ny Baby" i his
favori'e.
People have stolen my pets" he says. very
often. II seems I've only tanned them 70 go
into some one else's hands, But " my one
ever steals my baby. and the tears hiod hs
eyes rs he spoke. "IN never tam" another
squirrel Baby. baby. he will call and the little
thing will come running to him from a tree
or the bushes.
Finkie i Nj. oldest squirrel. She Is eight
year. old Here she comes now, 10 said. as
n little squirrel came %scamI"rirg across the
grass toward him.
How can yor tell them apart he was
asked.
".n tIo,, F,,.1 81 ItNnv,,t " ip yyEuprpd
smiling nt The question. Il never mistake
one for the other
Wheeler has twenty-one pete, They Will
all come a The sound of his whistle and some
know their names. Like Mack he feeds them
with only the best nuts. and has tanned them
10y patience and kindness. With tears in his
eyes, ha tells Of the wav some ~ his squirrels
were frozen in one Of the heavy snow storms
n winter or so ago, and how he would always
roproach himself for not le1vin: the door
of tn" little gate house open.
In the morning when I woke M. he said.
"the ground was covered with snow, and the
wind blowing II about 50. that knew every
nest would he blown from the trees All the
car were s'oIIed. hut helpless a. | am ! walked
on my crutchcs away Mp from Forty-seyeuth
street. When | got here ! was exhausted.
and il was only 10 fnd every one Of them
frozen - death. One was sitting up in the
snow right near the house door, where she had
Cone 10 get ont Of The storm. S'if and dead,
You can never make much Of a PEI Of 'he
male squirrel. he went on. and he can never
he taught tricks. ET' the nnlale squirrel
YOU can tame and teach nuy trick that animals
can he taught
Both Mack and Wheeler have had from
time - line performing squirrels. Wheeler
has had several opportunities to exhibit his
squirrels in public. But without roir 10 a
playhouse he often en'ertains people a. b" sits
on the old Park bench, his pets gathered around
him, the gray -ton. walk for "A stage. the sun
shire for the foot ,ght- and H." birds -ongS
for the music.
Mack and Wheeler are good friend Mack
i a great walker aud once IN 81 often he Jour
ney- over Ia where Wheeler sits TO talk squirrel
With him.