Identifier: bannertailstoryo00seto (find matches)
Title: Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Squirrels
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as though he knew ex-actly what was doing and how his helpwas needed. With an angry Quare!(129) \ Bannertail she turned and scrambled up again,bumping the baby she bore with many aneedless jolt, and met Bannertail. Noth-ing less than rage was in her voice,*Quare, quare, quare! and she sprang athim. He could not fail to understand.He dropped the baby on a broad, safecrotch, and whisked away to turn andgaze with immeasurable surprise. ** Isntthat what you wanted, you hothead ? heseemed to say. Didnt we plan to movethe kids? Her only answer was a hiss-ing Quare! She rushed to the strandedlittle one, made one or two vain efforts to^/y^<^^r, carry it, as well as the one already in her f:A^// \ mouth, then bounded back to the old r./^. <( -^^ home with her own charge, dropped it,;/ ^« -M^ ^ came rushing back for the second, took\ that home, too, then vented all her wrath\^j and warnings in a loud, long Qua! which plainly meant: You let thekids alone. I dont need your help. I(130) \ *
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WITH AN ANGRY QUARE ! SILVERGRAY SCRAMBLED UP AGAIN The Story of a Gra^squirrel wouldnt trust you. This is a mothersjob. She stayed and brooded over them along time before making the third at-tempt. And this time the impulse camefrom the tickling crawlers in the bed.She looked forth, saw Bannertail sittingup high, utterly bewildered. She gave agreat warning Qua! seized number onefor the third time, and forth she leapedto make the great migration. The wood was silent except for itsown contented life, and she got half-wayto the new nest, when high on a broad,safe perch she paused and set her burdendown. Was it the maddening tickling ofa crawler that gave the hint, or was itactual wisdom in the lobes behind thoseliquid eyes? Who knows? Only this issure, she looked that baby over from endto end. She hunted out and seized in herteeth and ground to shreds ten of the(131) Bannertail plaguing crawlers. She combed herself,she scratched and searched her coat fromhead to tail, and on her neck, w

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