. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. Bannertail. ^â p wisdom inherited from his forebears, and his keen, discriminating nose. Scrambling up a rotten stub one day, a flake of bark fell off, and here a-row were three white grubs; fat, rounded, juicy. It was instinct bade him seize them, and it was smell that justified the order; then which, it is hard to say, told him to reject the strong brown nippers at one end of each prize. That day he learned to pry off flakes of bark for the rich foodstuff's lodged behind. At another time, when he worked off a slab of bark in hopes of a m
. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. Bannertail. ^â p wisdom inherited from his forebears, and his keen, discriminating nose. Scrambling up a rotten stub one day, a flake of bark fell off, and here a-row were three white grubs; fat, rounded, juicy. It was instinct bade him seize them, and it was smell that justified the order; then which, it is hard to say, told him to reject the strong brown nippers at one end of each prize. That day he learned to pry off flakes of bark for the rich foodstuff's lodged behind. At another time, when he worked off a slab of bark in hopes of a meal, he found only a long brown millipede. Its smell was earthy but strange, its many legs and its warning feelers, uncanny. The smell- guide seemed in doubt, but the inborn warden said: "Beware, touch it ; He hung back watching askance, as the evil thing, distilling its strange pestilent gas, wormed Snake-like out of sight, and Ban- [22]. 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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