The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
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BY Mary c. Judd author Of "A7c Of Birds
r HAT saucy boyish things these red squirrels are
Literally bounding with life those sharp claws h'he
bodies balance pole of bushy tail each bears
sprites the woods: When last down at
Minnehaba caught the whisk Of blonde
tree and then came the
sparkle shining from the other side or the same
scod, scold in the chickaree-
language out of that red SQUIRRELS
in T could in the same
in return advanced he retreated;
backward he went head down. but tail pointing up the tree
trunk scolded squirrel but stepped back myself
lengths of his body scoding chatterng'
Forward Went and around the tree
like imp he leaving strong words behind him !
notes sharper squirrel words shorter ana ne
actually the tree front to see how dared
insult him his own doorstep =. d.
Pursued by Sounds. 49,.
Then to show my greater strength clapped hands
up dashed like fox pursued by hounds
really only of brave little squirrel pur
Out branch twenty feet ABOVE the
ground himself his launches and chattered
other beast thousand times squir-
pretended abject fear and left him conqueror
beauty and life hope your nuts
may nest in the brush-heap warm with
this winter day. if hidden from the 1rot IN
the forgotten woodpecze that bushy tail of
yours better than upturned cape
chinchla served when venured out the DAY 1hat
Mercury sought pocket the thermometer.
squirrels <scurus Hudsonus) do not hibernate but
are winter how far in the north they
When nuts of all kinds including aeorn are ripe they
away quantities these in cavities in stumps Old
hOlOwS places, WnoeVel
happened knows that squirrel udg
excellent selecting only perfect unharmed tree
seeds. III
- 49, Bunny Graysdes r'-e.
When a child, years ago southern Wisconsin,, tor
ambitious squirrel daily he came down
hickory stood in the edge of the orchard
and opposite sittingroom It in the autumn
Bunny waited for rpened nuts to fall he pre-
ferred to select them like break
fast eggs strictly sit the rail fence
opportunity in the shape of Bunny with MS
jaws stretched to utmost nut of first de-
AS touched cndSe
and stones until that nut was mine
Perhaps squirrel enjoyed much perhaps
he did not thesport checked by thoughtful rea
the claims the weaker deserve to receive
from the stronger Hu1nated by thought that had
wronged my neghbor since have taken nuts
Bunny-unless I found where he had hidden them
Gray (s Carolinensis) abundant In the
oak groves Mississippi valley from the
southland Rainy across bor-
ders into Manitoba The gray is larger
brother the fox squirrel with his tawny
TAIL War declared long ago between the
gray battles between individuals OF either
still continue. ~ - =
Toward the southern boundary Minnesota there is
singy groups wheat fields Do know OF gray
squirrels leaved oaks? Yes and they know OF
1ouehine cbaterine magpie Of a girl who knew their
haunts little talked their language and
kept their secrets girl win tell squirrel
tales out of is what she told me- i
the gray squirrels had made their new
babies The old winter nests get full of all
biting things help to keep the
old from thinking too much OF home comforts ana sur
up to hard work and new homes.
~ Nest Building Most Serious
ever have the good luck to watch Mr. and Mrs
at tiny affair for them Three
side and deep from top to bot
little opening for doorway close by a
branch side door. Such long twigs
bring to build rustic tree home a
might call it, its purpose is to protect the
ball shreds, of
gathered ball lined with still softer
squirrel rushed jack oak with half
sheet of newspaper which blew ybefore
got halfway the nest Down he and chased the
flying paper to be treated the again by the
patience of these dumb fathers and mothers!
for have guessed that paper
finally itself the tree just where that squirrel
planned first to have itz-in the nest
have only jack oaks, maybe you call them red
scarlet in the fall sunshine
These foot less through the trunk
hollow, for comfort to fat squirrels either
the nests in woods were always
in the tops. the early days of March I always
planned go the pasture to watch SQUIRRELS