. . muscular animal. When cornered, or if wounded, it showsgreat determination, fighting valiantly and biting when mortally wounded it clings with surprisingpertinacity, and for a long time, to its perch. THE RED SQUIRREL* Chickaree is the common name of the Red Squirrel, socalled from the cry which it utters. It is one of the mostinteresting of the family, and a pleasing feature of rurallife. During the last weeks of autumn the squirrel seems tobe quite in its element, paying frequent visits to the nuttrees and examin
. . muscular animal. When cornered, or if wounded, it showsgreat determination, fighting valiantly and biting when mortally wounded it clings with surprisingpertinacity, and for a long time, to its perch. THE RED SQUIRREL* Chickaree is the common name of the Red Squirrel, socalled from the cry which it utters. It is one of the mostinteresting of the family, and a pleasing feature of rurallife. During the last weeks of autumn the squirrel seems tobe quite in its element, paying frequent visits to the nuttrees and examining their fruit with a critical eye. In fill-ing their little granaries, they detect every worm-eaten ordefective nut, and select only the soundest fruit, conveyingit, one by one, to its secret home. Feeding abundantly onthe rich products of a fruitful season, the squirrel becomesvery fat before the commencement of winter, and is thenin its greatest beauty, the new fur having settled upon thebody, and the new hair having covered the tail with itsplumjr RED Lifesi7e.
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