But the squirrel was as badly scared.

It ran up the tree, and from a point of safety chattered back savagely.
This helped the cub's courage, and though the woodpecker he next encountered gave him a start, he proceeded confidently on his way.

Such was his confidence, that when a moose-bird impudently hopped up to him, he reached out at it with a playful paw.

The result was a sharp peck on the end of his nose that made him cower down and ki-yi.

The noise he made was too much for the moose-bird, who sought safety in flight.
But the cub was learning.