Hermit Oliver P. Tripp with his friends: squirrels and birds

Hermit Oliver P. Tripp reads a book outdoors as squirrels sit on his shoulder and thigh; another hops down to his lap and looks at the book, then runs across it / Tripp plays a wooden flute while squirrel on his shoulder tries to chew the flute's end / Tripp feeds blue jays with a spoon as squirrel sits on his lap / MS birds sit on his shoulder as squirrel crawls down into Tripp's shirt pocket, then emerges with a nut and runs off / Tripp feeds jays with a spoon / MS squirrel crawls across Tripp's chest, goes into pocket, emerges with nothing, scampers away / two jays sit in hole in stump; squirrel goes inside hole / CU squirrel climbs over birds as he exits hole / CU squirrel takes a nut from Tripp's mouth / birds sit on an empty boot as squirrel climbs in and out / Tripp mends garment with needle and thread as squirrels play with sewing supplies set on stump; one squirrel runs off with spool of thread / Note: exact day not known