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Identifier: wildlifeoforchar00inge (find matches)
Title: Wild life of orchard and field;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
Subjects: Animal behavior
Publisher: (New York London) Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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nd patient and sympathetic per-sons easily make friends with some of the liveliestdenizens of the forest. One of the accompanyingillustrations show^s the friendly relations estab-lished between some sojourners in the White Moun-tains and a family of chipmunks, which came fa-miliarly to these persons for food, and were photo-graphed in a dozen pretty poses. Many sim-ilar friendships of the summer woods might becited. A lady who lives near Boston wrote me not longago of a female gray squirrel whose confidenceshe had w^on in this way. It was not only forthe nuts I gave her/ says my correspondent, withproper pride, for she would stop eating a nut tocome down the tree - trunk, spring on to my armor shoulder, and let me carry her along the streetfor a quarter of a mile. This squirrel would sitbeside the lady on the piazza-steps, curl up in herhands or lap or the bend of her arm, and stay quietuntil put on the ground cind told to go home. Shewould come in at the window, cross the room and TO
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A Friendly Chipmunk WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD climb upon her fricncrs knee, and often followedher wsome distance down the street, barking softly ifthe lady did not speak to her or stroke her back.The same squirrel brought her babies one dayto show them to her host, although it cost her anhour of coaxing to persuade them to follow herfrom the brush-protected fence across the drive-way to the porch. Any one who has watchedthe patient, anxious way in which the squirrel-mothers (for the fathers are away at this timedisporting themselves, heedless of domestic cares)encourage their yovmgsters to venture out uponthe shaky limbs, and instruct them in general,can well understand the relief of this little motherwhen she had brought the kittens safely to theside of their protectress. How human it was !At another time several squirrels used to cometo this lad^^s window, where she fed them, andthey had a habit, when climbing about her, ofnibbling her ears. It is never painful or rough,she wri

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