Show A Hinting KqolrrM Prom the New York Sun You have heard of sinning mice no doubt laid J K Sanford formerly of l > Over NIt N-It Not Ionic ago I read several In lenutlnfi account of them In The Sun 1 have never heard n sinning mouse but I heard a singing squirrel It was vveral years ago that white gunning one day In the woods near Dover Nil N-il my attention was drawn to what icnued the ringing of a bird somewhere some-where among the branches at a little distance away The note was 10 pe cullir that I turned my steps toward Ihe count to see what specie of bird was making It It wu some time bo fore could trace the note to Ita source Then I found out that It cam from a rOd squirrel sitting upright on a bough singing away u If In love with his own melody At light of me he stopped but at I remained perfectly still be presently piped up again Ai to the quality of hli melody I should compare It to the tingle note of a canary unusually prolongtd with no variation except In rising or fallIng fall-Ing and increase or decrease of volume vol-ume It may have been a call to a mate It certainly had nothing In It of the scolding character associated with the cbltterlng of the northern red qulrrel There wu no movement of the throat that I could discover In the production of the eound From tine to time he would stop his singing tnd presently after three or four minutes would start up again always la the beginning with a low 1 note which I In creased In volume until shortly before the next pause I remained on the spot a half hour listening and went away leaving squirrel tinging away I with ai lForoui a note u ever I |