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I should not have wondered at his rage, 

 but being a very noisy fellow, fond of fill- 

 ing the woods with discordant sounds, 

 he should have sympathized with me in 

 my musical efforts ; instead, however, he 

 took them much amiss. 



One moment he would dash down the 

 trunk of the tree, within eight or ten 

 feet of me, as though he had a mind to 

 spring upon my head and eat me up ; 

 then he would frisk back into the top of 

 the tree again, all the time scolding 

 and barking at the top of his lungs. 

 His tail twitched, his head bobbed, his 

 eyes snapped, and altogether he was the 

 angriest bit of fur that ever raved 

 against the intrusions of man into the 

 forest. 



Finally his curiosity got the better of 

 his rage, as it always does, and he came 

 down to within a few feet of me, and sat 



