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Show SQUIRREL SHOWS DEEP GRIEF Mourns Over Severed Hed of Mats With Intensity That Seems Almost Al-most Human. Almost every public park In the Vnlted Htates has its lively and half domesticated colony of squirrels, and there Is no other creature of the woods and fields with which city children may and dobecome so familiar. An Interesting story which shows the depth of feeling which these little ant mala are rspahle. comes to the Com panlon from Waterloo, la.: A physician who lives near one ol the parks In that city hn l lung had an especial Interest In a pair of squir rels which made their home in a tre w ithin sight of bis bouse. One day he noticed that Jue of this pair was run nlng up and down a certain tree In lh park, meanwhile chaiteritig In th greatest excitement. Finally the lit tie fellow appeared on a branch, ho'd Ing between his paws the severed head of his mate, over which he was moan Ing and whining pltliully. On invest! gallon. It appeared that the dead srpiir rel had been caught and actually de capitated by a limb split ot from th tree by a storm of tue night before The grlef-strlcken nute would not abundon the body all that day, ami mourned over the severed head witt an Intensity and absurpflon whlcfc seemed almoct human, with a depth of emotion indeed, of which some hu man beings arn hardly capable. Youth's Companion |
