Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-10

ana, dIter tnat 10 steep. Win tnelr chill
dren, in size equal to the ordinary rat,
squatting and cuddled. In rows between
fathers and mothers. Every Coypu had a
foot or two of hairless tail sticking straight
out behind 1t.
AS the guard said they would. the wolves
howled almost every hour during the night,
and the noise that they made sounded like
nothing so much as a medley Of college yeliS
at a big foot ball game. When they were
not disturbing the slumbers of the other
beasts the wolves slept lightly, lying on
their sides In dog fashion. The slightest
noise brought them to their feet, set them
to pacing their cages and often caused
them to yelp at the moon.
On the other hand the foxes. in neighbor-
ing dens, seemed to slumber heavily. de-
spite the noise and their reputation in the
cording to old hunters the fox is a sound
sleeper and is often stumbled against IN an
open space In the woods.
The fishes, however, did sleep with their
eyes open. Fish have to, for they haven't
any eyelids. Each fish balanced itself on
the tip of a submerged rock and permitted
itself to be rocked in slumber by the gentle
swaying of the water. Sound never awak-
ems fish. Dan Beard, the famous animal
artist, recently aptly Illustrated this when
he held a revolver over the top of his aqua
rum and fired it half dozen times. The
fish did not move. But when he waved his
arm every fin beat the water. A nSh s sense
Of hearing is very defective. and so it makes
its eyes do double duty twenty-four hours
every day.
A Fight by Moonlight.
During the night there was one fight
in the zoo boundaries. Two axis deer
clashed and the sound Of their antlers lock-
ing with each other started the wolves
bowling and the pheasants, very light
sleepers, beating wildly against the sides of
their cages When the rumpus auieted
down the guard described the fighting
bucks as the night hawks and the FOUNDERS
of the zoo. Seems like they're fighting at
all hours Of the night" he said, and
they're about the only animals that do
The sketch of the sleeping bat, in cor
ner of the accompanying illustration was
made from nature by Dan Beard. While
walking in his garden he noticed what ne
thought was peculiarly shaped peach on
tree. Just as he started to pick it he dis
covered that the supposed funny peach"
was bat. He FASTENED into his study, Sc
cured his sketch book and caught the bat
as 1t slept between two leaves, with its
head down, wings folded and tail covering
wings.
Mr.. Beard once possessed pet mother
bat and her two children. After a time the
mother sickened, but she still cuddled her
offspring under her wings each night. At
last her time to die came. Realizing 1t. she
tenderly carried her children to the bottom
of the cage, and, dragging herself up on its
side. died. Mr.. Beard firmly believes that
the mother bat did this SO that her dead
body would not chill and perhaps crush her
children
After the mothers death Mr.. Beard
started in to raise the youngsters On the
bottle. He succeeded admirably for time.
the bats waxing big and strong. Then, one
day. he gave them their bottles of milk and
Inadvertently left them. When he returned
he found that his charges had sucked up
all the milk and also much air, so that they
were pulled out like toy balloons. Their
greediness had put an end to their tender
young lives.
Tanning a Squirrel.
Mr.. Beard also had an interesting ex-
perience with red squirreIsquirreis sleep
rolled up like balls. or clinging to the sides
of cages. He unintentonally left the SPUR
rel out over night and in the morning 1t
was nearly dead from the chill. Mr.. Beard
at once resorted to heroic measures, which,
In this instance, were a teaspoonful of
whisky and milk poured down the red
squirrels throat. In less than five minutes
the animal was dancing like mad around
ting at everybody and everything. In short,
1t was suffering from severe case of I'D.
To- After half hour of such antics the
squirrel simmered down and, to the aston
ishment of its owner. ever after was as
tame as the common gray squirrel Red
squirrels are naturally vicious and this one
had been particularly unmanageable. But it
became so fond of Mr.. Beard that when he
gave 1t its freedom at the end of summer
1t re-entered the cage several times and
otherwise showed its reluctance to leaving
before 1t started for it's old home In the
Pike county woods.