Squirrels are the most delightful of all the furred denizens of the woods.

Sirle Squirrel, is graceful, or nimble squirrel.

Mitchell furnishes me opinions upon some of the scientific objects collected by me and my associates in the north-west in 1820: "The Squirrel sent by General Cass is a species not heretofore described, and has been named by Dr. Mitchell the federation squirrel, or sciurus tredecem striatus.

Three agitated young ladies, with flying draperies and countenances of mingled mirth and dismay, might have been seen precipitating themselves into a respectable mansion with unbecoming haste; but the squirrels were the only witnesses of this "vision of sudden flight," and, being used to ground-and-lofty tumbling, didn't mind it.

The Douglas squirrel is the happy harvester of most of the Sequoia cones.

" "Did you ever have any plaything that you were not tired of before long?" "Why,no," said Rollo; "but then a real live squirrel is a different thing.

The squirrel also sits up and uses his forepaws for hands, but the squirrel is a sybarite who lies abed in cold weather, and it is every way characteristic of him that he has sent his tail to the furrier and had it done up into a boa, or comforter, at once warm and becoming.

Squirrels are the most industrious foresters in the animal world.

Squirrel is the nimblest of them all and he is never still a minute.

Above the cascades the main stream passes through a series of open, sunny levels, the largest of which are about an acre in size, where the wild bees and their companions were feasting on a showy growth of zauschneria, painted cups, and monardella; and gray squirrels were busy harvesting the burs of the Douglas Spruce, the only conifer I met in the basin.

The red squirrel as usual feigns business of importance among the butternuts, but this is pure priggishness.

One young squirrel, however, was his secret friend, and whenever an opportunity offered of doing it without being seen, would bring him nuts and fruits.