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No doubt squirrels or monkeys of any kind, transported to an open or treeless country, would soon habituate themselves to their new situation, for Nature affords many illustrations of this power of adaptation on the part of her creatures. It was near sunset when our travellers reached the highest point of their route, nearly 14,000 feet above the level of the sea!
Doves should be taken off the list of game birds, and protected throughout the year; and so should all tree squirrels. Spring shooting of shore birds and waterfowl should be prohibited without delay. A law against automatic and pump guns should be enacted at the next legislative session, as a public lesson on the raising of the standard of ethics in shooting.
George W. Cable answers, when asked if he loves the "harmless, necessary cat," by the Yankee method, and says, "If you had three or four acres of beautiful woods in which were little red squirrels and chipmunks and fifty or more kinds of nesting birds, and every abutting neighbor kept a cat, and none of them kept their cat out of those woods would you like cats?" which is, indeed, something of a poser.
And you couldn't say they were SAFE in bed, because they never knew when Fatty Coon, or his mother, or his brother, or one of his sisters, or some cousin of his, might come along and catch them before they knew it. Fatty thought it great sport to hunt squirrels at night. Whenever he tried it he usually managed to get a good meal.
"Oh, that isn't right," said Mr. Longears. "Little boys, whether they are squirrels, rabbits or real children, should try to be jolly and happy, and not peevish." "How can a fellow be happy when there's no fun?" asked Billie, sort of cross-like. "My brother Johnnie got out of school early, and he and the other animal boys have gone off to play where I can't find them.
He does not instantly answer, as a schoolboy in this Darwinian day would, "To carry out an analogy;" but the mere asking of the question sets him ahead of his age. See too his curious inquiries into the left-footedness of parrots and left-handedness of certain monkeys and squirrels.
Adam throve, being prayed over before the gods of at least three creeds, in a garden almost as fair as Eden. There were gigantic clumps of bamboo that talked continually, and enormous plantains on whose soft paper skin he could scratch with his nails; green domes of mango-trees as huge as the dome of St. Paul's, full of parrots as big as cassowaries, and grey squirrels the size of foxes.
Crossing over, Saunders again snapped on his light, and examined the face and clothing of the murderer. "It's easy to see, Griffin, what the game was. This chap is one of the foreigners at the railroad camp. He can say he was out hunting shooting squirrels anything." "He can't say that," put in Mark quickly, "for I saw him do it. I tried to stop him." Saunders turned quickly to Mark.
The black squirrel proved rather a troublesome guest, for he stayed several days, and ate so heartily, that the old grey squirrels were obliged to hint that he had better go back to the clearings, where there was so much food, for that their store was nearly done.
She fed them with corn, and they supplied her and themselves with meat, by hunting squirrels, raccoons, and rabbits. To the rest of mankind they were aliens or enemies. They never left the desert but in company with their mistress, and, when she entered a farm-house, waited her return at a distance.
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