Show WOODLAND housekeepers what they in october to prepare for tho winter you overseen the weasel carry his winter food to his den if you meet him in tho woods watch him at work no ono could bo more methodical brings his food to thu entrance of his homo and suddenly pops into the round holo in the ground eliat serves him as a doorway not to alarm him go quietly to the entrance and stand perfectly still ho will continue to work with no show ot yanco at your whatever food he may hac brought ho will loy it near his door go in turn around and then reach out to drag in alic dainty after him the chipmunk Is mother busy housekeeper ho works on much tho same plan as the weasel and to and fro he will lias ten on alic still days of october seeming to the advantage of tolling w hilo the winds and sky are favorable in storing his provisions tho chipmunk is fur more careful than the red squirrel and he is alo particular about furnishing his home ho the dry leaves or those of the plane trw and them carefully into his check pockets to carry them to his den when ho cannot find enough nuts or grain this provident little housekeeper something alc know of two chipmunks that were observed by n of animals while they gathering cherry pits from under a cherry tree a tho students u ho preferred watching tho workers to disturbing them they grew friendly and were full of joy at alio feast that they were laying up for themselves they gathered fac seeds of tho sugar maple also and as many of the keys were yet on the although the leaves had alien the chipmunks them by running swiftly out upon tho ends of the email branches reaching for abo maple keys snipping off abo wings and deftly slipping the nut or amara into their cheek pocket sOur aulman friends |