The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine, and Other Tales of Wild Life

Excerpt from The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine, and Other Tales of Wild LifeI am sure you know the home of the pond lily. The giant cactus and a few other strange asso ciates make their home in the desert. Although animals move about, most of them, like the pond lily, live all their life in the locality of their birth. Animals are not wandering gypsies.A chipmunk makes her home at one end of my cabin. She claims as her territory an area several yards in diameter and rarely does She venture 03 her own ground. There are other chipmunks around, each having its own territory. The bluebirds, wrens, and robins often alight in her pasture. But if the chipmunk that claims a little pasture at the other end of the cabin comes into her pasture, she scolds. Surrounding the cabin is a much larger territory that is claimed by a pair of rabbits. Within this there are per haps 100 or more chipmunk pastures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.