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The Squirrel

HIS pretty lively little and lively, never atrest from morning til creature, has his home night; somewhat shy at the same time, in the woods, and may be with a kind of innocent pertness which found in almost every makes him very amusing. The front legs country in the world are short, the paw having four toes with except Australia. In strong curved claws, which enable him to temperate regions Squir- climb both rapidly and securely. The rels especially abound, hind legs are much longer, to enable him but are seen also in the cold north and to leap; they have five toes, the claws. in the burning tropics. He is very active scarcely so curved. He climbs with the greatest agility, not only suck the eggs, but devour the leaping from branch to branch, and from young ones. He is really a pretty little tree to tree, finding his food in berries, creature, about eight inches in length,