The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

baby kittens before they disappeared then
pushed the kitten, and left
of Tabby. The old cat never
knew the difference Kittens
squirrels thrved their food and at
in squirrel history They played tag with
the one old Tabby never had such
family boxed their
them. Perhaps she couldn't shake them because
when they tiny once took the squirrels from
Tabbys barrel laid the crying the barn floor
Tabby tried her foster babies by
nape of the neck Now, know kitten has too much
hold of that spot behind
their baby squirrel isn't made that and Tabby
couldn't after times trying get enough squirrel skin
lift Of those babies had given her.
So picked them by hand dropped them back into
the barrel nest had learned new thing and SO had Tabo
.....-, From Mothers Point of View
"Those squirrels grew grew sport
twenty kittens. to My mother
something different She made fine round
cake in the pantry window to cool She opened
seated suarely in the
middle of that cake with and mouth full of the sweet
stuff which dearly loved Did she box his ears! NO. put
else for leaving the
window open. Bunnyboy loved cookies. fed him mine,
but the edge which he daint
lily as his One day
of of the dining table legs Bnnyboy
the sin he escaped with bare vertebrae show
ing where caught him,
slipped hairy casing place the bones fas-
the in the skin with plaster but alas our
surgery dropped off, the underfesh
dried and Bunnyboy became bobta1 In
way knew him from Giliwigs, his sister.
"Giliwigs was mild patient, when provoked in
Bunnyboy unless affairs went his
way BY him He leaped ten feet,
into the loose skin between my
and there in rage that would
frightened him off, then he leaped
upon my white kitten and tore her flesh until
help Bunnyboy then sprang upon
his fostermother loved her dearly
Tabby killed if broomstck had not been
Bunnyboy left the house in tearing rage. lie
mad indignant world because had dared
him. than week he resented all offers
friendship from cat kitten or girl but at last ne sue
cumbed cookies
"Bunnyboy to the woods when winter came but in
early fall, Giliwigs, after rough play with me one
plate Of fly poison that stood in the window
it, dropped died Poor Glliwigs, loved her.
Adopted Squirredon
'Bunnyboy back but think he told the rest
that member of the squirrel tribe and that
whatever their good Even his bobtail
proof and doubtSif another child in Minne
of homes and nuts belong
ing to as many gray squirrels happy
rabby, fosternother, weakly sympathetic She
brought many the gophers, meadowmce and moles
which caught did not kill hurt Per-
haps thought other matters as
but hobby SQUIRRELS and not the whole
disappeared leaving her daughter Dainty
annual of stolen squirrel kittens But
she mother and either ate her mice in
her delicaces
lived and learned to love live SQUIRRELS but pos
sby of the pasture woods she loved to eat
their relatives Dainty model in
squirrel is match for any small feline
so secured many of the bushy tails
At the beginning when telling you wordy battle
with squirrel mentioned by chinchia cape You
color the beautiful silky fur that is SO pop
year, but do you know the animal: :
Gray Squirrels American Cousin.
Picture yourself squirrel with wide ears that
those listening only hundred
times larger body with delicate fur and
tail long expressive in its curves
so frisky delightful handsome IN
it's business squirrel of North America
chnchia is relative as to teeth and claws put
habitat for he lives In South America
preferrng Peru If only the skn rather the
fur squirrel of California as valuable as
the chinchlla ranch owners might compensation
work of these innumerabe max
ers beyond the Rockies deserted
their free homes centuries ago and seem
The sake showing others the Pacific
coast that they something of mining and of the
Of keeping in close touch with the soil
than the gophers much harder
to the chance Of
with our gray black Of the trees, and
that dainty flying called the flying squirrel
Those lived for aSsumner at Lake Mnnetonka
know these gentle the night and love
them they your home and you nave not
made net flying SQUIRRELS then be
to do you fingers with the next
July fire crackers.
catch squirrel-and catch him When he's