Migratory Squirrels

Squii reis in Lapland are in the habit of eroigtatingin large parties, and sometimes travel hnndreds of miles. When they meet with broad lakes they take a very cxtiaordinary method of crossing. They approach the banks, and, pereeiving the distance between them and the opposite shore, they retiirn, as if by common onsent, into the neighboring forest, each in search. of a piece of bark or üght wood, whioh answers the purpose of a boat to ferry them over. When the whole company is provided in tuis mauncr they boJdly commit their fleet to the waves, eaoli gquirrel sitting on his own boat, and fanuing the air with his tnil in ordeï to drive hiinself acr ss. In this orderiy manner they set ont, and of ten cross lakes severa 1 miles broad in this way. It oucasionally happens, however, that the poor squirrels enooUliter such a gale that, uearly all tlieir vesse.'s are capsized and they are sbipwrecked. It ia an illwind that blows nobody good, however, and tho shipwreck, so disastrous tó the squirrel, is a matter of great rejoicing on the part of the Laplander on shore, who gathers np the dead animáis thrown on shore by the waves, eats the flesh, and sells the skins.