Show i CHOSE DEATH FOR OFFSPRING mother squirrel would not have them live in captivity I 1 was snipe shooting in northwest missouri last spring when two boys came along on their way home frony from town tho the shooting was not so good but blit that there was lime liens to stop and have a talk and before we parted they told me the following story they had caught a gray squirrel and her four young ones la in the usual way by stopping slopping up the hole in a hollow limb we wanted to raise the young ones and took the rt or so shed raise them but when wo we got them home and yut iut her in the box with the young ones she he killed hilled every one of 0 them dit bit each one once through the heart first she took hold of 0 a little girl squirrel and she acted kind as it ii she like to kill it it being as it was a girl so she dropped it and went and smelled another one and it was a he so she killed it and then the other hes and then she killed the airl irl last what did you do with the mother I 1 asked well sir after she treated her children that way we want her and we turned her loose forest and stream |