. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel . THE LOPPING OF THE WAY-WARD BRANCH ^URIOSITY may be the trailto knowledge, but it skirts adangerous cliff. The Rosemoon, June, was on the hills,its thrill joy set the wholewood world joy-thrilling. The Banner-tail family had frolicked in a game of tag-and-catch all around the old Hawk nest,and up the long smooth pole went Crayto show that he could do it. His motherwarned him, Quare!^ but up he went,and down he came without a hint offailure. Then they scattered, scamper-ing for a game of hide-and-seek, when theheavy sound of some big brute a-coming[1
. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel . THE LOPPING OF THE WAY-WARD BRANCH ^URIOSITY may be the trailto knowledge, but it skirts adangerous cliff. The Rosemoon, June, was on the hills,its thrill joy set the wholewood world joy-thrilling. The Banner-tail family had frolicked in a game of tag-and-catch all around the old Hawk nest,and up the long smooth pole went Crayto show that he could do it. His motherwarned him, Quare!^ but up he went,and down he came without a hint offailure. Then they scattered, scamper-ing for a game of hide-and-seek, when theheavy sound of some big brute a-coming[159]. •P Bannertail was wind-borne to them. The mothergave the warning Chik.^ Three of themquickly got to the safe old nest. Silver-gray flattened on the up side of a ruggedlimb; Cray, seeing nothing near, andscofling at their flurry, made for a bigcrotch into which he could sink fromsight if need be, and waited. In vain hismother cried, Chik; Cray wouldntchik^; he wanted to know what it wasM^^f^ all about. The heavy trampling sound 9%} came near. Silvergray peeped over and ^ N^\^ could see very well; it was the two-leggedZl^^^J/ Brute with the yellow yapping four-legs%\m. that she more than once had met rambled slashingly around; theYap-cur eagerly wagging his hideous swung his black snout in the air, gaveout a long Yap!^ another and the Two-legs came slowly nearer,staring up into the rooftrees and movingawkwardly sidewise round and round the[160]
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