Squirrels to Live By # 7

“Don’t count your squirrels before they hatch.”

You remember, faithful readers, that I previously told of how birds manipulated squirrels into getting up early to “get the worm”? Well, we’ve recently discovered further proof of just how devious those birds really were toward their squirrel brethren. You’re probably thinking to yourself that squirrels don’t come from eggs!?!? That’s right, they don’t. However, there was a mistaken perception that made some simpletons believe that they did. Since time began, squirrels have been selfishly giving of themselves. Somehow squirrels got roped in by the birds to watch over their nest. Research dug up an interesting story on this tale. Apparently, the flighty bird wanted to spend its afternoons playing in the grass and bathing in the pools. Therefore the mischievous creature persuaded the squirrel to sit on its eggs day in and day out until the little ones hatched. Of course, the squirrel performed this duty with pride and efficiency, keeping the eggs warm and safe until spring came. So these simpleton people, as we’ll call them, witnessed this bizarre happening and concluded that squirrels actually came from eggs and thus this squirrelism was born (or hatched).