Is That So?
The strong call of the ild
upon an animal is wonderfully
weil told in this piece by Es
tella Boteler of Richmond, Cal
ifornia (which, incidentally, won
for her the weekly 30-volume
Encyclopedia Americana award).
She wrote:
"My two teen-age brothers
always more than prompt for
their meals, returned from a
wood-cutting expedition much
too law for dinner. Their late
0 ness, w toon foiid, was due to
a tiny fo squirrel shivering in
thg) foldt of their coat, more
dead than live, which they had
foAd in tre they had chopped
down. Both mother and another
squirrel hd .been killed in the
tree's- fall.
"While our dinner stood for-
- eotten. we tried everything DOS-
sible to feed the tiny waif with
warm milk , without success
' Finally my older sister said: 'I
know just the thing!' and hur
ried to our smokehouse where
our old house-cat rested in a box
feeding her family of newborn
kittens. w
"Kneeling down and placing
one hand cver the cat s head, she
lowered the tiny orphan into the
, box, helping it find a nipple,
and it took hold at once and be
V, gan feeding hungrily. However
JJie cat must have caugnt xne
fTtjueer odor for suddenly she
raised up and looked intently at
the squirred and might have de
stroyed it but my sister placed
her hand quickly over the cat s
eyes and gently pushed her head
down asain. She kept the hand
er the cat's head until the
nursing was completed. Then
ve brought the tiny squirrel
back into the house carefully
closing the door so the cat could
not get in and sister bedded the
orphan down in a cotton-padded
box. Only then did we all have
dinner, too happy and excited
about the squirrel to care that
our food had gotten stone cold.
Of course we named him im
mediately, hitting on the name
Bonnie.
Door Opnd
"After several days supervi-
inn trio rat nprmittprl tho fnnnd-
! ling to take part of her babies'
food without question and then
we opened the house door so the
cat could come in whenever she
liked. "
"When the kittens' eyes op
ened they also came into the
house and then squirrel and kit
tens would romp and play to
gether all over the place while
the mother cat sat by and
' watched with seeming pleasure.
In between times, the squirrel
or one of the kittens would take
a few swallows of nourishment
with the mother cat lying down
obligingly, r " " . '
"One day a neighbor, Mrs.
tfavitmiroe a4 artf? caiir tVto
kittens and squirrel romping all
over the floor together. When
she saw the mother cat come in,
she cried out in alarm: "Hurry!
Quick.'The cat will eat him!"
And you can . imagine her sur
prise when little Bonnie scam
pered toward the mother cat and
immediately nuzzled her for a
bit of nourishment whereupon
the cat turned on her side and
permitted the squirrel to eat in
comfort.
"When Bonnie grew up he
would race to meet the boys,
run up their legs, on to their
shoulders and then if the boys
didn't offer him a nut he would
dive down and search their
pockets for the nuts that he
knew were always hidden there
for him.
"Eventually, Bonnie took to
disappearing. At first, he would
. be gone only a few hours; then
overnight, and finally, several
days at a stretch and each time
he returned he was just a little
bit less tame than before.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
Suddenly Reappeared
"Once when he had been gone
for over a week and we had
about decided that he would not
return, he suddenly reappeared,
racing like a streak down the
in the Day's News
path to our door. Without hesita
tion, he scrambled up to my sis
ter's shoulder and sat there
nuzzling her ear when she tried
to take hold of him, he jumped
on to one of our other children
and sat on our shoulders until
we would try to touch him and
then he'd jump to another again.
Petting for him was over.
"Our brother, hearing our
glad cries and seeing Bonnie ran
to the corn crib and snatched
up a few grains of corn and has
tened back, calling, 'Bonnie'
every jump.
"As soon as Bonnie heard him
he jumped down and ran toward
brother, leaping upon his shoul
der and like old times searching
his pockets until he found the
corn. Taking a grain, he returned
to my brother's , shoulder and
holding the corn in his little
forepaws began to peel the husk
from the corn and. to eat it with
relish. But when we tried, to
take him into the house, he
balked and instead ran up a
tall tree in the yard and refused
to come down despite our coax
ing. '
"That was the last time we
saw Bonnie for when he went
away this time, he never re
turned. The call of the wild
wood proved too strong and he
couldn't resist."
(Copyright, 19S5,
by Eugene Burns)
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BY FRANK JENKINS
Leading officials in Washing
ton say the Middle East has be
come the most critical area in
the worldwide cold war.
There are growing fears that
Middle East tensions might flare
at any time into a full-scale
shooting war between Israel and
the Arab countries.
TF-
1 The United States and Russia
could be sincerely UNITED in
the determination to build a bet
ter world
There are so MANY things
we could do to keep the peace
in the historic prowderkeg that
we know as the Middle East. We
could knock the Isarelis' and
the Arabs' heads together and
tell 'em to be good or else! Or
we could throw a quarantine
around the area,, shutting off
all war material and letting 'em
fight it out with their bare fists
after their ammunition ran out.
That would be bad, but ' it
would be better than letting a
little war in the Middle East
spread into another world war
B
UT-
Our informed Washington of
ficials say the communist bloc
undoubtedly plans to step up
pressure in the months ahead by
channeling weapons to the Arab
countries.
And
Our state department says it
has information that soviet bloc
sources have been approaching
Israel on SUPPLYING THE
ISRAEL FORCES .WITH ARMS
That is to say: The commies
are planning to slip guns to
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GO ix
You see ' ,
We can't work with Russia to
keep the peace. You just can'
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New ner.n no-turn signs have
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Sixth, st. and Central ave.
New signs on Central a've.
read "No Left Turn" and "No
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-' lighter side of life.
The BBC, the goverment-con
trolled British radio which is
normally as solemn and stuffed-
shirty as government-controlled
afairs have to be aired its first
joke about the Princess Marg
aret-Peter Townsend romance
One of its comedians pretend
ed to read a news bulletin say
ing: "British facing another
crisis they had tea together
again itoday!"
He got a laugh that echoed
all over the United Kingdom.
fit COURSE
You know
If Meg and Peter eloped and
got married and LIVED HENCE
FORTH ON WHAT THEY
COULD EARN their crisis would
be resolved and there wouldn't
be anything that .anybody could
do about it.
In Norwalk, Calif., 39-year-old
William Pivar (arrested on a
charge of malicious mischief) up
and threw a heavy ashtray
through a plate glass window
in the sheriff's, office.
Asked what the heck, he ex
plained: "I just had an urge
to .break a window. I feel much
better now."
IF I had been the sheriff, I'd
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