trees.

Sometimes he could not find any on the ground.

Then he would run round and round hunting for holes where he had hidden
acorns away.

If the holes were empty Sammy knew some other little squirrel had been
there before him.

And sometimes Sammy found nuts that other squirrels had stored away.

The hunting was always good, and no squirrel ever went to bed hungry.

But at last Jack Frost came and covered everything with snow.

All the nuts and acorns were frozen into the ground so the squirrels
could not dig them out.

[Illustration: The squirrel hunted for nuts.]

Then Sammy went to his store-house in the stone wall or in some old
stump.

At last it became very cold.

North Wind blew through the woods.

The water in the little brook was covered with ice.