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More About the Squirrels

Chapter 8: Transcriber’s Notes:
By Eleanor Tyrrell
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About This Book

The author offers an affectionate series of close observations and anecdotes about tame and wild squirrels in her garden, following particular individuals, their courtships, young, and territorial rivalries. She describes daily visits, feeding habits, seasonal changes such as males losing tail fur, episodes of loss and a consequential decision to stop keeping squirrels caged, and the challenges of coexistence with neighbours, predators, and changing weather. The narrative alternates practical natural-history notes with personal recollections, charming illustrations, and reflections on freedom, domesticity, and the unpredictable life of small wild animals.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Based on research, this book was most likely published in 1915, but possibly in 1916.

The illustrator for this book was Honor C. Appleton.

Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication.

The original publication includes a wide margin on each page for both the side away from the binding and the bottom. Many illustrations extend into one or both of these margins. Some illustrations wrap around the text by extended down the wide side margin and continuing across the bottom margin; see, for example, here and here. This formatting is not natural in a web browser or eReader, since these do not have fixed pages. All illustrations from the original publication are included here, but that page-oriented illustration formatting is not reproduced.