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The Douglass Squirrel of California University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes John Muir Papers 12-1-1878 The ouD glass Squirrel of California. John Muir Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb Recommended Citation Muir, John, "The ouD glass Squirrel of California." (1878). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes. 67. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/67 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the John Muir Papers at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. be/.' §u 4)-, 260 THE DOUGLASS SQUIRREL OF CALIFORNLA. way and get himself a good wife, and then " Yes, yes, certainly I am," broke in Thor­ it would be well to have the linen marked arin, a little impatiently. " I assure you I with his own name so he wouldn't have to meant no harm. But we will say nothing buy it all new. Here you see, Thorarin— more about it, at least not to-night." and then to think that he should never come " I am glad you have recovered your home to his mother again and never go to senses," rejoined Mrs. Raven, still visibly Norway and never get any wife.'' bristling. Mrs. Raven stood tearfully viewing the Down in the lower hall she met Amund, pillow-case with the embroidered initials, who inquired anxiously for Helga. but seeing that.her companion was too much " How is he now, the poor young man ? " absorbed in the present misfortune to have asked she, heedless of his question. much sympathy to spare for her, she laid it " Not much change yet," answered Am­ down with a sigh of resignation, smoothed und, sadly. "We must move him up­ it out carefully, and moved toward the door. stairs at once." " One moment, Mrs. Raven, if you " Oh yes, yes, we must thank God," mur­ please," demanded the young farmer, walk­ mured she, moving her hands and head in ing close up to her and speaking in a confi­ token of effusive gratitude. " Since this dential whisper. " I am sorry that we have thing had to happen, we should be grateful brought all this trouble upon you. It is to God that it did not happen to us." all my fault, and I hope you will allow me Mrs. Raven had a notion that sickness to bear the expense, whatever it may be. and misfortune were a kind of force or fluid But probably " which was hovering about in the air, and in " Sir! " interrupted the old gentlewoman the end had to come down on somebody; fiercely, drawing herself up into an attitude and with the generosity peculiar to her type of stiff dignity. " I hope you are not aware of Christians she prayed devoutly to God that you are speaking to the widow of a that that somebody might be her neighbor royal Norwegian government " rather than herself. (To be continued.) THE DOUGLASS SQUIRREL OF CALIFORNIA. THE Douglass squirrel is by far the most ester and committed almost the whole of he interesting and influential of-aK-'the Califor­ coniferous crops to his paws. Probably ove nia sciuridte, surpassing every other species fifty per cent, of all the cones ripened 01 in force of character, numbers, extent of the Sierra are cut off and handled by th range, and in the amount of influence he Douglass alone, and of those of the big tree brings to bear upon the health and distri­ (Sequoia giganiea), forming an interrupte bution of the vast forests he inhabits. belt nearly two hundred miles long, perhaj Go where you will throughout the noble ninety per cent, pass through his handi. woods of the Sierra Nevada,—among the The greater portion is of course stored away giant pines and spruces of the lower zones, for food during, the winter and spring, but up through the towering silver-firs to the some of them are tucked separately into storm-bent thickets of the Alps, you every­ holes, and loosely covered, where they ger­ where find this little squirrel the master- minate and become trees. But the Sierra existence. Though only a few inches long, is only one of the many provinces over so intense is his fiery vigor and restlessness, which he holds sway, for his dominion ex­ he stirs every grove with wild life, and makes tends over all the redwood belt of the coast himself more important than even the huge mountains, ..and far northward throughout bears that shuffle through the tangled un­ the majestic forests of Oregon and Wash- derbrush beneath him. Every wind is fretted ington Territory. I make haste to mention by his voice, almost every bole and branch these facts, to show upon how substantial feels the sting of his sharp feet. How much a foundation the importance I ascribe to the growth of the trees is stimulated by this him rests. means it is not easy to learn, but his action The only one of the family to which the in manipulating their seeds is more appre­ Douglass is very closely allied is the red ciable. Nature has made him master-for­ squirrel or chickaree of the eastern woods. THE DOUGLASS SQUJ ZREL OF CALIFORNIA. 261 Ours may be a lineal descendant of this leaps and glides in hidden strength, seem­ species, probably distributed westward to ingly as independent of common muscles as the Pacific by way of the great lakes/and a mountain stream. He threads the tasseled thence southward along our forested ranges. branches of the pines, stirring their needles This view is suggested by the fact that our like a rustling breeze; now shooting across species becomes redder and more fhickaree- openings in arrowy lines ; now launching in like in general, the farther it is traced back curves, glinting deftly from side to side in along the course indicated above. But sudden zigzags, and swirling in giddy loops whatever their relationship, and the evolu­ and spirals around the knotty trunks; getting tionary forces that have acted upon them, into what seem to be the most impossible the Douglass is now the larger and more situations, without sense of danger; now on his haunches, now on his head; yet ever beautiful animal. From the nose to the root of the tail, he graceful, and punctuating his most irrepres­ measures about eight inches; and his tail, sible outbursts of energy with little dots and which he so effectively uses in interpreting his dashes of perfect repose. He is, without feelings, is about six inches in length. He exception, the wildest animal I ever saw, wears dark bluish gray over the back and a fiery, sputtering little bolt of life, luxuriat­ half-way down the sides, bright buff on the ing in quick oxygen and the woods' best belly, with a stripe of dark gray, nearly juices. One can hardly think of such a black, separating the upper and under creature being dependent, like the rest of us, colors. This dividing stripe, however, is not on climate and food. But, after all, it re­ very sharply defined. He has long black quires no long acquaintance to learn he is whiskers, which gives him a rather fierce human, for he works for a living. His busi­ look when observed closely, strong claws, est time is in the Indian summer. Then he sharp as fish-hooks, and the brightest of gathers burrs and hazel-nuts like a plodding bright eyes, full of telling speculation. farmer, working continuously _ every day for A King's River Indian told me that they hours; saying not a word; cutting off the ripe call him " pillillooeet," which, rapidly pro­ cones at the top of his speed, as if employed nounced with the first syllable heavily ac­ by the job, and examining every branch cented, is not unlike the lusty exclamation in regular order, as if careful that not one he utters on his way up a tree when excited. should escape him; then, descending, he Most mountaineers in California call him stores them away beneath logs and stumps, in the pine-squirrel, and when I asked an old anticipation of the pinching hunger days of trapper the other day whether he knew our winter. He seems himself a kind of conif­ little forester, he replied with brightening erous fruit, both fruit and flower. The rosiny essences of the pines pervade every pore of countenance: " Oh yes, of course I know him; every­ his body, and eating his flesh is like chewing body knows him. When I'm hunting in the gum. woods, I often find out where the deer are by One never tires of this bright chip of his barking at them. I call 'em lightnin' nature,—this brave little voice crying in the squirrels, because they're so mighty quick wilderness,—observing his many works and ways, and listening to his curious language. and peert." All the true squirrels are more or less bird­ His musical, piney gossip is savory to the like in speech and movements; but the ear as balsam to the palate; and, though he Douglass is pre-eminently so, possessing, as has not exactly the gift of song, some of he does, every attribute peculiarly squirrel- his notes are sweet as those of a linnet,— ish enthusiastically concentrated. He is the almost flute-like in softness; while others squirrel of squirrels, flashing from branch to prick and tingle like thistles.
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