. St. Nicholas [serial]. eabout hearing squirrels sing. In answer to aninquiry for further partic-ulars she says: We heardsing, and we a red squirrelknow it is thesquirrel that sings, for we haveseen it do it. There are sixpeople besides myself whohave heard the squirrel sing. Mrs. Baldwin alsowrites confirming the state-ments of her daughter, andadds: I think there was but one. Fre-quently I have listened closely for atime, unable to decide whether itwas bird or squirrel, and then haveseen it run along a branch, finishinghis song as he ran. Through thesong you could trace the chatter andwhir-
. St. Nicholas [serial]. eabout hearing squirrels sing. In answer to aninquiry for further partic-ulars she says: We heardsing, and we a red squirrelknow it is thesquirrel that sings, for we haveseen it do it. There are sixpeople besides myself whohave heard the squirrel sing. Mrs. Baldwin alsowrites confirming the state-ments of her daughter, andadds: I think there was but one. Fre-quently I have listened closely for atime, unable to decide whether itwas bird or squirrel, and then haveseen it run along a branch, finishinghis song as he ran. Through thesong you could trace the chatter andwhir-r-r of the squirrel, but at thesame time it was a sweet bird-song,with none of the scolding, com-plaining note of the squirrel. Ihave taken pains to-day to see afriend, who has a cottage abouttwo miles from us at Hancock, andshe says she and her husband haveheard them, though not very often,as their cottage is situated more inthe open and other cottages arenear, while ours is surrounded bywoods, with no other house very tame and will go tothe neighboring housesfor nuts. Once the maidopened our front doorand a squirrel walked infor his breakfast. Someof them will take thenuts out of my hand,and even climb to myshoulder and from thereout to my wrist to getthem. They bury thenuts and come back forthem after a while. Itis wonderful how they can find the nuts they haveburied when people cannot. These squirrels havegiven me so much pleasure that I thought per-haps some of your readers might like to hearabout them. Alice Bacon Barnes (age 10). WORKING TOGETHER IN HARMONY. Pittsburg, St. Nicholas : I have noticed a queerfact about squirrels gathering their nuts. When ina hurry seven or eight will climb up the tree, splitopen the burs, and then drop them to the ground,ere a number of other squirrels gather them inttle piles around the tree. Then the others de-scend and help take off the burs, when they againare put in little piles around the trees and coveredover with lea
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