. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. CHAPTER XV BACHELOR LIFE AGAIN ^ANNERTAIL was left to himself, like a bachelor driven to his club. He had become very wise in wood- lore so that the food ques- tion was no longer serious. Not count- ing the remnant of the nuts still un- earthed, the swelling buds of every sweet- sapped tree were wholesome, delicious food, the inner bark of sweet birch twigs was good, there were grubs and borers under flakes of bark, the pucker berries or red chokeberries that grow in the low- lands still hung in clusters. Their puck- ery sourness last fall
. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel. Squirrels. CHAPTER XV BACHELOR LIFE AGAIN ^ANNERTAIL was left to himself, like a bachelor driven to his club. He had become very wise in wood- lore so that the food ques- tion was no longer serious. Not count- ing the remnant of the nuts still un- earthed, the swelling buds of every sweet- sapped tree were wholesome, delicious food, the inner bark of sweet birch twigs was good, there were grubs and borers under flakes of bark, the pucker berries or red chokeberries that grow in the low- lands still hung in clusters. Their puck- ery sourness last fall had made all crea- tures let them alone, but a winter [99 1. 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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