full of corn that their cheeks distend to the size of a hen's egg. The
chitmunck sometimes inhabits hollow trees and logs.

I have frequently cut down trees in which they had deposited their
winter-store, to the amount of half-a-bushel of beech-mast, Indian
corn, and grain of different descriptions. It is a very curious
circumstance that, before storing away for the winter, they carefully
skin every beechnut.

Towards the spring, when the days begin to be a little warm, they leave
their winter-holes and enter the barns--compelled, most probably, by
the failure of their winter-store. Great numbers are then destroyed by
the cats. Their fur is of little value, and their flesh uneatable.



CHAPTER XXIII.

THE REBEL, VON-EGMOND, THE FIRST AGRICULTURAL SETTLER ON THE HURON. --
CUTTING THE FIRST SHEAF.

THE celebrated Anthony J.W.G. Von Egmond, who commanded the rebels at
Gallows Hill during Mackenzie's rebellion, was the first agricultural
settler on the Huron tract. He had formerly been a Colonel in the old
Imperial Army; and after Buonaparte's abdication and retirement to
Elba, he joined the Allies, and held the rank of an officer in one of
the Belgian regiments at Waterloo.

He was a pushing, clever sort of man; and had he but been contented,
and stuck to his last, instead of troubling his head about politics, he