Identifier: fourfootedamericwrig (find matches)
Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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tspaws look like tiny bits of hands, with the tops of thefingers swelled out, and it has long nails that are cov-ered up by the fur. Good! exclaimed the Doctor ; how did you seeso much in the dark, which is the only time this Squir-rel is out ? I had one in a cage last winter; the Millers boygave it to me. It grew very tame, and I let it out in thespring so it could go and find a mate and not be lonely,but it came back to the house last summer and crawledin my window. At first I thought it was a bat that hadflown in, and then I saw that it had a tail and no wings. If it has no wings, how can it fly? asked Dodo. The skin of its back reaches down on its legs, thesame as if I put a blanket over my back and fastened itto my wrists and ankles. It runs up to the top of atree, or out to the end of a branch, and gives a big jumpdown or across to another tree. It doesnt really fly orflap its arms as if they were wings, but spreads them tokeep from falling and catches the wind like a flat kite.
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Flying Squirrels. MISCHIEF MAKERS 353 Why doesnt it go crooked and spin around ?asked Nat; a kite would if it hadnt a string to holdit and a long tail. You must remember, said the Doctor, that aSquirrel is alive and springs in the direction he wishesto go; the skin flaps help him to remain in the air, andhis tail, which spreads flatly and is not thick like otherSquirrels, both balances and steers him. Olive, dear,look in the portfolio and give me the picture of theFlying Squirrel. There, now you can see at a glancehow he goes ! Then they can only fly down or across, but not up,said Olive. They can rise very slightly, but not much higherthan a Gray Squirrel can by leaping. Tell us whatelse you have noticed about them, Rap. The first time I ever saw them was three years agoin spring. The Millers boy said there was a hickorytree with a hole in it, back of their pond, where a lot oflong-tailed Bats lived. He was looking for Wood-peckers eggs late one afternoon, and he saw the holebut he c

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