There were two windows in Phonny's shop. One was over the work bench and was an ordinary window, formed with sashes. The other was merely a large square hole with a sort of lid or shutter opening upward and outward, like the small door of the hen-house. Phonny used to call this his shutter window. It was the place where he was accustomed to throw out his shavings. Of course there was no glass in this window, and nothing to keep out the wind and rain when it was open. In stormy weather, therefore, it was always kept shut. The shavings which Phonny threw out here formed a little pile outside, and after accumulating for some time, Phonny used to carry them away and burn them. As Phonny stood showing the empty cage to Stuyvesant, his back was turned toward this window, but Stuyvesant was facing it. Happening at that instant to glance upward, behold, there was the squirrel, perched at his ease upon a beam which passed along just over the window. Stuyvesant did not say a word, but pointed to the place. Phonny looked up and saw the squirrel. [Illustration: FRINK ON THE BEAM.] "Oo--oo--oo!--" said Phonny. "Shut the window," he exclaimed. "Let us shut the window quick," he added impatiently; and then creeping softly up to the place, he took hold of the prop which held the shutter up, and gently drawing it in, he let the shutter down into its place. "Shut the other window," said Phonny. "Climb up on the bench, Stivy, and shut the other window as quick as you can." Stuyvesant clambered up upon the bench and shut down the sash of the window. "Now for the door," said Phonny; and he ran to the door and shut it, looking round as he went, toward the squirrel. As soon as he got the door shut he seemed relieved. "There," said he, "we have got him safe. The only thing now is to catch him." Here followed quite a long consultation between the two boys, in respect to the course which it was now best to pursue. Phonny's first plan was to put the trap upon the table and then for him and Stuyvesant to drive the squirrel into it. Stuyvesant however thought that that would be a very difficult operation. "If the squirrel were a horse," said he, "and the trap a barn, we might possibly get him in; but as it is, I don't believe the thing can be done." Phonny next proposed to chase the squirrel round the shop until they caught him. Stuyvesant objected to this too. "We should frighten him," said he, "and make him very wild; and besides we might hurt him dreadfully in catching and holding him. Very likely we should pull his tail off." After considerable consultation, the boys concluded to let the squirrel remain for a time at liberty in the shop, taking care to keep the door and windows shut. They thought that by this means he would become accustomed to see them working about, and would grow tame; perhaps so tame that by-and-by, Phonny might catch him in his hand.