. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. Bannertail fight" is the Redsquirrel's first impulse, but when Bannertail rose up to full height and spread his wondrous tail the Red one was appalled. He knew his foe again; his keen, discriminating nose got proofs of that. The memory of defeat was with him yet. He retreated, snick-sputtering, and finally went wholly out of sight. When all was still, Bannertail made his way to the broken mushroom; rosy red and beautiful its cap, snowy white its stem and its crisp, juicy flesh. But of this he took no count. The smelling of it was his
. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. Bannertail fight" is the Redsquirrel's first impulse, but when Bannertail rose up to full height and spread his wondrous tail the Red one was appalled. He knew his foe again; his keen, discriminating nose got proofs of that. The memory of defeat was with him yet. He retreated, snick-sputtering, and finally went wholly out of sight. When all was still, Bannertail made his way to the broken mushroom; rosy red and beautiful its cap, snowy white its stem and its crisp, juicy flesh. But of this he took no count. The smelling of it was his great chemic test. It had the quaint, earthy odor of the lit- tle ones he had seen before, and yet a pungent, food-like smell, like butternuts, indeed, with the sharp pepper tang of the i^v^ rind a little strong, and a whiff, too, of ^^ the many-legged crawling things that he * had learned to shun. Still, it was allur- ing as food. And now was a crucial time, [168]. 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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