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BANNERTAIL THE STORY OF A GRAYSQUIRREL With 100 Drawingsby Ernest Thompson SetonAuthor of Wild Animals I have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag,Biography of a Grizzly, Lives of the Hunted, Monarch The Big BearFOREWORDThese are the ideas that I have aimed to set forth in this tale.1st. That although an animal is much helped by its mother's teaching, it owes still more to the racial teaching, which is instinct, and can make a success of life without its mothers guidance, if only it can live through the dangerous time of infancy and early life.2d. Animals often are tempted into immorality—by which I mean, any habit or practice that would in its final working, tend to destroy the race. Nature has rigorous ways of dealing with such.3d. Animals, like ourselves, must maintain ceaseless war against insect parasites—or perish.4th. In the nut forests of America, practically every tree was planted by the Graysquirrel, or its kin. No squirrels, no nut-trees.These are the motive thoughts behind my woodland novel. I hope I have presented them convincingly; if not, I hope at least you have been entertained by the romance.Ernest Thompson SetonILLUSTRATIONSHis kittenhoodBaffling Fire-eyesThey twiddled whiskers good nightWith an angry "Quare!" Silvergray scrambled up againThe little squirrels at schoolCray sank—a victim to his follyA dangerous gameThe battle with the BlacksnakeCONTENTS1. The Foundling2. His Kittenhood3. The Red Horror4. The New and Lonely Life5. The Fluffing of His Tail6. The First Nut Crop7. The Sun Song of Bannertail8. The Cold Sleep9. The Balking of Fire-eyes10. Redsquirrel, the Scold of the Woods11. Bannertail and the Echo Voice12. The Courting of Silvergray13. The Home in the High Hickory14. New Rivals15. Bachelor Life Again16. The Warden Meets an Invader17. The Hoodoo on the Home18. The New Home19. The Moving of the Young20. The Coming-out Party21. Nursery Days of the Young Ones22. Cray Hunts for Trouble23. The Little Squirrels Go to School24. The Lopping of the Wayward Branch25. Bannertail Falls into a Snare26. The Addict27. The Dregs of the Cup28. The Way of Destruction29. Mother Carey's Lash30. His Awakening31. The Unwritten Law32. Squirrel Games33. When Bannertail Was Scarred for Life34. The Fight with the Black Demon35. The Property Law among Animals36. Gathering the Great Nut Harvest37. And To-day

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IT was a rugged old tree standing sturdy and big among the slender second-growth. The woodmen had spared it because it was too gnarled and too difficult for them to handle. But the Woodpecker, and a host of wood-folk that look to the Woodpecker for lodgings, had marked and used it for many years. Its every cranny and borehole was inhabited by some quaint elfin of the woods; the biggest hollow of all, just below the first limb, had done duty for two families of the Flickers who first made it, and now was the homing hole of a mother Graysquirrel. She appeared to have no mate; at least none was seen. No doubt the outlaw gunners could have told a tale, had they cared to admit that they went gunning in springtime; and now the widow was doing the best she could by her family in the big gnarled tree. All went well for a while, then one day, in haste maybe, she broke an old rule in Squirreldom; she climbed her nesting tree openly, instead of going up its neighbor, and then crossing to the den by way of the overhead branches. The farm boy who saw it, gave a little yelp of savage triumph; his caveman nature broke out. Clubs and stones were lying near, the whirling end of a stick picked off the mother Squirrel as she tried to escape with a little one in her mouth. Had he killed two dangerous enemies the boy could not have yelled louder. Then up the tree he climbed and found in the nest two living young ones. With these in his pocket he descended. When on the ground he found that one was dead, crushed in climbing down. Thus only one little Squirrel was left alive, only one of the family that he had seen, the harmless mother and two helpless, harmless little ones dead in his hands.

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FOREWORDThese are the ideas that I have aimed to set forth in this tale.1st. That although an animal is much helped by its mother's teaching, it owes still more to the racial teaching, which is instinct, and can make a success of life without its mothers guidance, if only it can live through the dangerous time of infancy and early life.2d. Animals often are tempted into immorality—by which I mean, any habit or practice that would in its final working, tend to destroy the race. Nature has rigorous ways of dealing with such.3d. Animals, like ourselves, must maintain[vi] ceaseless war against insect parasites—or perish.4th. In the nut forests of America, practically every tree was planted by the Graysquirrel, or its kin. No squirrels, no nut-trees.These are the motive thoughts behind my woodland novel. I hope I have presented them convincingly; if not, I hope at least you have been entertained by the romance.

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