Allen considered what name to apply to the graysquirrel of northeastern United States and adjacent parts of Canada, (Monogr.
Utah from the eastern to the western border but in doing this did not mention the rock squirrel of the Kaibab Plateau of Arizona that also might be expected to be referable to S.
The name and synonomy of the northern gray squirrel are as follows: ~Sciurus carolinensis pennsylvanicus~ Ord 1815.
On this basis we refer the rock squirrel of the Kaibab Plateau to the subspecies Spermophilus variegatus grammurus (Say).
There is a teasing and ironical tone in it also, but the gray squirrel is not the Puck the red is.
The distant bark of the more wary gray squirrelmay be heard about the same time.
Invade some butternut or hickory-nut grove on a frosty October morning, and hear the red squirrel beat the "juba" on a horizontal branch.
Instead of the Dapple Gray, a little gray squirrel stood in the very spot where the little pony had been.
But it was too late, and pretty soon the little squirrel ran away, and poor Mary Louise was left alone in the big Wishing Stone chair.
A gray squirrel chattered as he ran up a tree behind her, and a rabbit, padding over the dead leaves on his way to the lake, made a sound like a bear.
Often when his work was done he wandered into the woods to return with a capful of berries or a squirrel that he had snared.
Footnote: European foresters speak of the action of the squirrel as injurious to trees.
The squirrel is especially destructive to the pine in Sologne, where he gnaws the bark of trees twenty or twenty-five years old.
Very interesting observations, on the agency of the squirrel and other small animals in planting and in destroying nuts and other seeds of trees, may be found in a paper on the Succession of Forests in Thoreau's Excursions, pp.
There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
He kept shooting, but the squirreldid not come down.
One morning he stood out in front of his door firing away at a squirrel in a tree.
The father said: "Don't you see that squirrel up there in the tree?
So the girls waded out and washed in the finest basin in the world, made friends with a courageous squirrel who was also bathing his face, and combed their tangled locks with Henrietta's side-combs.
If a squirrel hadn't started at the same moment from the other end, Mabel might have rushed safely across.
Sometimes a saucy squirrel ran along an overhanging branch to scold loudly at the little girl.
I have often waited to see a squirrel go for something to eat after a snowstorm.
Both the looks and manners of Mr. Fremont, Sciurus fremonti, proclaim for him a close relationship with the Douglas squirrel of California and the Pacific coast, the squirrel immortalized by John Muir.
A Midget in Fur A Midget in Fur The Fremont squirrel is the most audacious and wide-awake of wild folk among whom I have lived.
The squirrel went to each in turn without the least hesitation or search and as though he had been to each spot a dozen times before.
In this tree was a squirrel home, and my axe had brought the owner from his hole.
The numbers of cones hoarded for winter by each squirrel varies with different winters and also with individuals.
These nuts were walnut and hickory; and like most heavy nuts they traveled by rolling, floating, and squirrel carriage.
In dining, also, the squirrel uses a log, limb, or stump year after year.
Then a squirrel appeared, to drag them from their cold storage.
The tears would come and she sat down on a bench, from behind which a squirrel darted.
On the green beyond Cassy could see them, could see, too, a squirrel there that had gone quite mad.
Cassy was gazing beyond where the squirrel had been.
These cones were buried near a tree, in a dead limb of which the squirrel had a hole and a home.
While I was working over the old pine, a Douglas squirrel who lived near by used every day to stop in his busy harvesting of pine-cones to look on and scold me.
It may have been hidden by a jay; or, as is more likely, it may have grown from one of the uneaten cones which a Douglas squirrel had buried for winter food.
The gray Douglas squirrel is one of the most active, audacious, and outspoken of animals.
At the first blow a Douglas squirrel came out of a hole at the base of a dead limb near the top of the tree and made an aggressive claim of ownership, setting up a vociferous protest against the cutting.
I told her that during the winter the squirrel came down and dug through the snow to the cones and then fed upon the nuts.
We watched one squirrel stow cones under trash and in holes in the thick beds of needles.
Harriet asked many questions concerning the cones,--why they were buried, how the squirrel found them when they were buried in the snow, and what became of those which were left buried.
The panther stole the fire from the East, The fox stole the fire from the panther, The ground squirrel stole the fire from the fox, And I, Red Cloud, stole the fire from the ground squirrel.
I stole the fire from the ground squirreland hid it in the heart of the wood.
I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track.
I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade.
The squirrel lifts his little legs Because he has no hands, and begs; He's asking for nuts, I know; May I not feed them on the snow?
The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter "Little Prig.
Psalm XXIII Bible The Mountain and theSquirrel Ralph W.
One day a neighbouring cat came to see her, and the squirrelwas clearly the subject of their talk.
And when the Squirrel comes a-digging, so shall my lord slay him with a bullet.
And Tiyang Khan squats in the walled garden moulding the Ginseng roots in his unclean hands, while Sou-Sou the Squirrel scratches among the dead leaves of the woods for roots as perfect as a naked human body.
Here on the knoll the crickets in the turf And one boldsquirrel barking, seek, alas!
There's a lot of difference between shooting a ground squirrel and blazing away at a man who is blazing away at you at the same time.
I'll take your word for the ground squirrel business, Mr. Gwynne, and bid you good day.
Said one squirrel to the other squirrel: 'There is a dear little maid from Padstow Town here in the wood collecting music from the thrushes.
I thought it would be,' said the squirrel that spoke, arching his handsome tail with importance.
Well, I've got better nuts than these at home," and Mr. Squirrel he got up and left the table.
That silly squirrel soon was put Into a house of tin.
Mr. Squirrel coughed twice and straightened his vest before he began, so they knew his poem wasn't to be funny.
And just then Mr. Squirrel came with his trunk, and Mr. Robin with his satchel and a hand bag, and Mr. Turtle with his things in a big sack.
Then Mr. Squirrel picked up some roasted nuts that the Crow had just brought in.
When Mr. Squirrel sat down there wasn't a dry eye in the room, and even Mr. Dog outside was affected.
He said he'd seen that poor little squirrel at Mr. Man's house turning and turning away in his tin wheel, and felt so sorry for him that two or three times he'd tried to get him out.
She hunted for him up and down And round and round she ran-- Alas, that foolish squirrel boy Was caught by Mr. Man.
The squirrelcame from high up in the beech tree--the second fork from the top.
How often had he swung at the end of a tapering twig, while the squirrel feinted at him with all four paws!
The squirrel ran openly down his tree-trunk, and secretly up the far side of it.
He was addressing vacancy, for thesquirrel had in the mean time completed the circuit of three tree-tops.
Before the dormouse had finished speaking the squirrel had started, and the boughs by which she reached it were still quivering as she returned.
Before the dormouse had collected his wits, a fine kernel was thrust through the nest and the squirrel had once more regained her bough.
The flesh of the black squirrel is equal to that of the rabbit, and the red, and even the little chissmunk, is palatable when nicely cooked.
The squirrel and chissmunk occasionally bounded across our path; the dazzling snow which covered it reflected the branches above us in an endless variety of dancing shadows.
But the blackbird hung peeking at will; The squirrelfrom cone hopped to cone; The thrush had a snail in his bill, And tap-tapped the shell hard on a stone.
Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow, Swift as the swallow along the river's light Circleting the surface to meet his mirrored winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight.
Shy as the squirrelthat leaps among the pine-tops, Wayward as the swallow overhead at set of sun, She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
The squirrel cocked ear o'er his hoop, Up the spruce, quick as eye, trailing brush.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squirrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
