The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

| breakfasted or dined sumptuouSly.
Strange things sometimes happen though.
| 1t was the day before the only big storm
| of this season that the squirrel ate and
ate till the whole of twenty-five English
! walnuts had been devoured. Officer Love
! Joy scarcely knew whether to indulge
| what seemed to be a gourmands de
! bauch or not. but wisely decided that the
| squirrel knew its own affairs best, and
so supplied the nuts until at the end of
! the twenty-second one the squirrel cooked
! his eye up at the sky, carefully noted the
weather indications, and disappeared in
| ms hole near the top OF the tree.
| Next day the snow fell and the grou nd
| was drifted white with snow, but the
| squirrel did not mind for, rolled in a ball.
| IL TOOK advantage of the bad weather to
| enjoy vacation, and the time was filled
! with sleep illustrated with fascinating
| dreams of summer skies and leafy delis
| where banquets of nuts could be found.
AT the end of five days the stress of bad
weather was over and again the squirrel
was at the trysting place waiting for an
other breakfast of nuts.
In the fall peanuts were considered
great luxury, but one day walnuts Were
furnished. and now a meal of peanuts is
taken only under protest When the
squirrel has eaten its fill 1t thrifty takes
the nuts and hides them somewhere for a
future emergency when there would 9TH
erwise be no nuts. Quite the most com
mon storehouse for them is a hole in the
ground. but not n few are carried to the
empty birds nests. Two or three nuts
single nut is hidden in the same hole.
Hundreds of nuts have been buried in
the ground just at the corner of fremont
and Boylston Street and many people
have watched from afar the energetic lit
tie creature digging holes and dropping
in the nuts and carefully covering them
up. To the eye there is in a short time
nothing to Indicate the place of burial,
but the squirrel knows exactly where to
dig for treasures in the hour OF hunger.
1t is curious to see how the nut TO be
buried win be turned around and around
in the mouth until it is a comfortable fit
and then the journey is made to its burial
place. If the nuts are not cracked when
offered, and the squirrel is not hungry
they will all Immediately be put into the
ground, and so the precaution is usually
taken to have them cracked. There are
people who do not know squirrels fond
ness for nuts, and cake will be offered.
keen appetite only will ensure a fas-
udiOuS nibbling. During the three DAYS
Of intense cold the dweia,r of the OLD elm
tree felt it at times bitterly. 1t would
hold up its little paws and shiver. and
then look at the sky to see If the intense
cold was ever going to ease up. The
squirrel that now occupies the tree by the
monument has lately moved. All the
winter ii has been in n tree down at the
end of the frog pond but spring has evil
IDENTIFY created desire for a higher out
look where the early and late sun may he
enjoyed. Where did these two squirr els
come from? Those who know say that
they used to roam about the Fens and
that later they moved to Commonwealth
Avenue. and last winter made the Public
Garden their home. and this winter they
have chosen the historic Common. There
was a time when there was a whole
colony of squirrels on the Common. hut
they were either trapped or killed and
not a squirrel was left to tell the tale