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PECULIAR ACTIONS OF A STRIPED GROUND SOUIRREL 



ROBERT B. ROCKWELL 

 !)< lift /-, Colorado 



Glimpses of the inner .nature of wilcl creatures are encountered 

 by observers at the most unexpected times and places, and such 

 an experience fell to the writer's good fortune early last June. 



Some fifteen miles northwest of Denver, Colorado, is a small 



lake leased by a number of Denver men for duck shooting. 

 The so-called "club house" is a frame structure of one room, 

 which serves the manifold purpose of kitchen, sleeping room, 

 store room, etc. It is occupied but one night during the week 

 for only a few weeks in the spring and fall and is overrun with 

 house mice. The shooting season closed April 15th, and the 

 house was not again occupied until the night of June 3d. On 

 this evening the writer, with a companion, reached the cabin 

 some time after dark, and preparations were made to retire. 

 In the corner of the cabin was a pile of three folding spring 



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