Jeannette and Jeannot, and would come when they were called by their
names, and take a bit of cake or a lump of sugar out of the fingers of
their little mistress. Lady Mary had two canaries, Dick and Pet; and she
loved her dormice and birds, and her new pet the flying squirrel, very
much, and never let them want for food, or water, or any nice thing she
could get for them. She liked the history of the grey squirrels very much;
and was quite eager to get her book the next afternoon, to read the second
part of the adventures and wanderings of the family.




PART II.

WHICH TELLS HOW THE GREY SQUIRRELS GET ON WHILE THEY REMAINED ON PINE
ISLAND--HOW THEY BEHAVED TO THEIR POOR RELATIONS, THE CHITMUNKS--AND WHAT
HAPPENED TO THEM IN THE FOREST.


It was noon when the little squirrels awoke, and, of course, they were
quite ready for their breakfast; but there was no good, kind old mother to
provide for their wants, and to bring nuts, acorns, roots, or fruit for
them; they must now get up, go forth, and seek food for themselves. When
Velvet-paw and Silver-nose went to call Nimble-foot, they were surprised
to find his nest empty; but after searching a long while, they found him
sitting on the root of an upturned tree, looking at a family of little
chitmunks busily picking over the pine-cones on the ground; but as soon as
one of the poor little fellows, with great labour, had dug out a kernel,
and was preparing to eat it, down leaped Nimble-foot, and carried off the
prize; and if one of the little chitmunks ventured to say a word, he very