Our young folks [serial] . he had a good deal of business under a brush pilepartially covered by the snow, I set to work, and, pulling aside the rubbish,dug up the leaves under it, when beneath a thick thatch, like that of a wood-larks nest, there rolled out a parcel of beechnuts mixed with acorns. Therewas no less than a quart; and the many shells scattered about showed thatthere had been more. Carefully gathering them up, I carried them home, and the next morningcame over again to see where little Chickaree would get his quietly along I espied him eating a bur or an acorn
Our young folks [serial] . he had a good deal of business under a brush pilepartially covered by the snow, I set to work, and, pulling aside the rubbish,dug up the leaves under it, when beneath a thick thatch, like that of a wood-larks nest, there rolled out a parcel of beechnuts mixed with acorns. Therewas no less than a quart; and the many shells scattered about showed thatthere had been more. Carefully gathering them up, I carried them home, and the next morningcame over again to see where little Chickaree would get his quietly along I espied him eating a bur or an acorn on the lowerbranch of a hemlock. Finishing this, he ran down the trunk and coursingalong to a little shrubby spruce about a couple of feet in height, ran under 68o Chickaree and little Hackee. [November, it, and presently emerged with an acorn, with which he repaired to an oldbeech standing near, the yellow leaves of which still clung to the frozentwigs. But I had not been the only watcher. As Chickaree sat nibbling (0 J-1. at his acorn, there came racing downfrom the top of the tree a large northerngray squirrel. Little Chickaree gave agreat start and sat watching him. With just a glance up at him as hepassed, the gray ran down the trunk and*s$£\ proceeded directly to the little had been watching the red and wasnow robbing him. The red chickeredand chattered and ran about in greattrouble. I could hear the gray diggingand rustling under the little spruce ; and,quietly cutting a switch, I tiptoed alongto it and stood ready. A moment laterhe bobbed out with an acorn, and Igave him a cut which knocked him overfairly; but before I could grab him, he recovered and darted off. I next examined the spruce and found another hoard hidden in the leavesunder it. These I removed; and a few more mornings after came overonce more. Chickaree had moved down near the lower end of the watching for nearly an hour, I saw him enter a hole at the root ofan old decayed stump. Ma
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