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Show A I'ractlcil Joke. Mot tquirrels. keep two or more stores Of food. Wood, the British nalurallst.tells of a friend who found one of these reserve stores which a squirrel had provided for an exigency, exi-gency, and the friend. In a moment of thoughtlessness, determined to play a Joke on- the squirrel. He accordingly replaced the nut3 by small, round stones, and carefully concealed nil evidences of hU ML One cold day In winter, he passed the spot and found that tho squirrel hid called there a abort tlmepruvi. ously, This lie knew by tbe fact that ten inches of snow had been scratched from the top of the hole, ouUide of which the stones had' been ca.t by the disappointed animal. ani-mal. This struck the Inter !!!, r, moree. He said: "1 never felt the folly of practical jokins to much In my life. Fancy the poor little fellow, fel-low, nipped with cold, and scanty food, Lut foreseeing a longwlnterr noIved to economize his little hoard as long as possible. Fancy him at last detenu Ined to break this perhaps his last magazine, and cheerily brushing away the snow, fully confident con-fident that a good meal awaited hi m as a reward of bis cold Job, and after all. finding nothing bal stones. I never felt more mean and ashamed in my life, and really would have given a guinea to have known that injured niulrrel'saddrcRS. He should have had as tine a lot of nuts a would have put him beyond tht reichof poverty lvatl !.o lived to be as old as Methuselah." Cfcje Dan-wra). |
