Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — HAS SQUIRREL WELL TAMED [ARTICLE]

HAS SQUIRREL WELL TAMED

Intelligent Little Animal Beguiles Tedium of Voyage for Naval Officer on Active Duty. There Is a certain very companionable little squirrel which belongs to an officer on a warship, somewhere in South African waters. She is a great talker —in her she Is always very careful not to talk when any one else is talking. Her master will call her down from her bedroom, and she appears with cheery little squeaks and gurgles. Then she waits. “Will you have toast this morning or milk?” is the question with which he greets her. ahd her answer is a decided chatter for a moment. When she stops, he goes on with the conversation, and she listens to him, with her little eyes full of Interest, for what he Is tilling her. Then comes her turn, and she talks a bit. She Is a very playful little squirrel, and she has never been known to lose her temper with her master, though sometimes In a romp, when she gets rather flurried, she bites a bit too hard. And, if her master gently raps her. she pretends to feel grieved about it. goes into a corner and sulks and all that he can do is to leave her alone until she wants to play again.—Montreal Herald.