Our young folks [serial] . s full of French sweets, while in a sixteenththere was just the nicest, snuggest nest of leaves and dried grass that evera squirrel need to have. By hokey ! exclaimed the boy. Here s what become of our Frenchsweets. There were over a barrel of them, and when we come to reflect that theywere all brought from over in the field, within a fortnight, why, it looks tobe a very fair job for a mere shiftless red squirrel ! I thought so, at least. Chipmunks are not squirrels in a naturalists eyes. The naturalistplaces them in the genus Tci77iias not in the genus Sciurus. None
Our young folks [serial] . s full of French sweets, while in a sixteenththere was just the nicest, snuggest nest of leaves and dried grass that evera squirrel need to have. By hokey ! exclaimed the boy. Here s what become of our Frenchsweets. There were over a barrel of them, and when we come to reflect that theywere all brought from over in the field, within a fortnight, why, it looks tobe a very fair job for a mere shiftless red squirrel ! I thought so, at least. Chipmunks are not squirrels in a naturalists eyes. The naturalistplaces them in the genus Tci77iias not in the genus Sciurus. None of thesquirrels proper have cheek pouches ; but all chipmunks are noted for theircheeks and the great loads they will carry in them. They differ from thetrue squirrel in many other particulars. The squirrels are noted for theiragility in climbing trees ; while it is rare that one can drive little Hackee (asthe boys call him) up higher than ten or fifteen feet from the ground. Of 682 Chickaree and little Hackee. [November,. its own accord it rarely mounts higher than the walls and fences. Its homeis on the ground, and its nest is nearly always placed in the ground. Still, I apprehend that it will be a long time before the school-boy willcease to regard the chipmunk as a squirrel. Indeed, in the Eastern States the name striped squirrel is as com-mon as any of its other familiar names. Some years ago, in company with twoother boys, I formed a sort of joint stockcompany for the purpose of digging outchipmunks. It was one of those period-ical years when beechnuts are original plan had been to gathersome ten or a dozen bushels of thebeechnuts to sell, by way of getting alittle spending money. But the chip-munks were beforehand with us. It didseem as if there were a dozen squirrelsto every tree ! The whole wood re-sounded to their clucks and chuckles andcJiitters. We were no match for themnut-gathering. It did no good to try to kill them off. For every one wekilled, a scor
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