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language ( June 5, 2013)
BANNERTAIL THE STORY OF A GRAYSQUIRREL With 100 Drawings
by Ernest Thompson Seton
Author of Wild Animals I have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag,
Biography of a Grizzly, Lives of the Hunted, Monarch The Big Bear
FOREWORD
These 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 Seton
ILLUSTRATIONS
His kittenhood
Baffling Fire-eyes
They twiddled whiskers good night
With an angry "Quare!" Silvergray scrambled up again
The little squirrels at school
Cray sank—a victim to his folly
A dangerous game
The battle with the Blacksnake
CONTENTS
1. The Foundling
2. His Kittenhood
3. The Red Horror
4. The New and Lonely Life
5. The Fluffing of His Tail
6. The First Nut Crop
7. The Sun Song of Bannertail
8. The Cold Sleep
9. The Balking of Fire-eyes
10. Redsquirrel, the Scold of the Woods
11. Bannertail and the Echo Voice
12. The Courting of Silvergray
13. The Home in the High Hickory
14. New Rivals
15. Bachelor Life Again
16. The Warden Meets an Invader
17. The Hoodoo on the Home
18. The New Home
19. The Moving of the Young
20. The Coming-out Party
21. Nursery Days of the Young Ones
22. Cray Hunts for Trouble
23. The Little Squirrels Go to School
24. The Lopping of the Wayward Branch
25. Bannertail Falls into a Snare
26. The Addict
27. The Dregs of the Cup
28. The Way of Destruction
29. Mother Carey's Lash
30. His Awakening
31. The Unwritten Law
32. Squirrel Games
33. When Bannertail Was Scarred for Life
34. The Fight with the Black Demon
35. The Property Law among Animals
36. Gathering the Great Nut Harvest
37. And To-day
Pages
167

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