. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. Bannertail except such as they themselves have hidden for just such times. Bannertail quartered the surface of the snow among the silent bare-limbed trees, sniffing, sniff- ing, alert for the faintest whiff. A hound would not have found it — his nose is trained for other game. Ban- nertail stopped, swung his keen "divin- ing-rod," advanced a few hops, moved this way and that, then at the point of the most alluring whiff, he began to dig down, down through the snow. Soon he was out of sight, for here the drift was nearly two feet
. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. Bannertail except such as they themselves have hidden for just such times. Bannertail quartered the surface of the snow among the silent bare-limbed trees, sniffing, sniff- ing, alert for the faintest whiff. A hound would not have found it — his nose is trained for other game. Ban- nertail stopped, swung his keen "divin- ing-rod," advanced a few hops, moved this way and that, then at the point of the most alluring whiff, he began to dig down, down through the snow. Soon he was out of sight, for here the drift was nearly two feet deep. But he kept on, then his busy hind feet replac- ing the front ones as diggers for a time, sent flying out on the white surface brown leaves, then black loam. Nothing showed but his tail and little jets of leaf-mould. His whole arm's-length into the frosty ground did he dig, allured by an ever- growing rich aroma. At last he seized / [ 54 ]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York C. Scribner
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