The Burgess Animal Book for Children

and over the Green Meadows, for the little people who live there are great gossips. So it was not surprising that Striped Chipmunk heard all ab

aimed Old Mother Nature. "What hav

ll you let me stay, Mother Nat

lly glad you have come today, because to-day's lesson is to be about you and your cousins. Now, Pe

eally seen him before. "He is smaller than they are," began Pet

odded encouragingly

des, a black stripe running down the middle of his back. The rest of his coat is reddish-brown above and li

hipmunk. "I can climb if I want to, and

," said Old M

ntinued Peter, "and he is one of the brightest, livel

r," said Striped

he ground. I guess this is all I know about him. I should say the chief difference between Striped Chipmunk an

ifferences which you have not mentioned. Striped Chipmunk has a big pocket on t

times at Striped Chipmunk with those pockets stuffed with nuts or seeds until his

dn't get along without them. They save me a l

to pop his head out on a bright day to see how the weather is. A great many folks call Striped Chipmunk a Ground Squirrel, but more prop

gh to be out of reach of Jack Frost I make a nice little bedroom with a bed of grass and leaves, and I make another little room for a s

o find the entrance to your tunnel?" as

the stone wall on the edge of the O

l the sand you must have taken out wou

e. "There isn't a grain of that sand around my doorway. I took it all out through another hole some distance away, a

re are no rocks or stones. He likes best the flat, open country. He is called Spermophile because that means seed-eater, and

ly he has more of them than you have, and they are broken up into little dots. He is called the Thirteen-lined Spermophile. He has pockets in his cheeks just as you have, and he makes a home down in the ground very similar to yours. All the family d

l, very like Happy Jack's. He gets into so much mischief in the grain fields and in the orchards that he is quite as much disliked as is Jack Rabbit. This particular member of the family is quite as much at home among rocks and tree roots as in open g

," said Pe

" said Stri

t," said

t," said

round, red Mr. Sun went to bed behind the Purple Hills and the Black Shadows c

gly. "Jumper," said she, "what is wrong with

insisted Jum

great land who can fly are the Bats. Timmy the Flying Squirrel simply jumps from the top of a tree and slides down on the air to the foot of another tree. If you had used your eyes you would have noticed that wh

ing, he looks as if he had win

he jumps from a high place. You've seen a bird, after flapping its wings to get going, sail along with them outstretched and motionless. Timmy does the same thing, only he gets going by jumping. You may have noticed that he usually goes to the top of a tree before jumping; then he can sail down a won

ver see him?" inqui

led up in a little ball in his nest, fast asleep. Timmy likes the nig

ittle sheepish as if he were a wee bit ashamed of

bigger. His coat is a soft yellowish-brown above; beneath he is all white. His fur is wonderfully soft. He has very large, dark, sof

like his cousins?"

"Also he eats grubs and insects. He dearly loves

make his home?"

akes a comfortable nest of bark lining, grass, and moss, or any other soft material he can find. Occasionall

any enemies?" a

ut the one he has most reason to fear is Hooty the Owl, and that is th

winter?" piped up

if he happens to be living where the weather does not get very cold, he is act

en Johnny Chuck

Johnny and his relatives, the Marmots, certainly cannot be overlooked. We will take them