New World Squirrel - Old World Larceny

Peaches ripening on the tree

Larceny is a crime involving the wrongful acquisition of the personal property of another person. It was an offense under the English common law and became an offense in jurisdictions that incorporated the common law of England into their own law. It has been abolished in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It remains an offense in the United States and New South Wales, Australia, involving the taking and carrying away of personal property.

Nearly unnoticed escape

Our squirrels are quite emboldened in their attitudes toward our garden - anything there is theirs' for the taking. For example, after making a fair amount of effort to espalier the three young peach trees along the fence, and enjoying the development of the fruit from the time of flowering when there was a late snow, through the small green bee-bee stage, to now with reasonably sized peaches with a blush of pink, and then - just when things are looking up - snatched away before their prime - prizes so close, yet so farm - just out of our reach. Such it is with the Old Welsh saying: pleserau dwyn ​​yn melys.