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CHAPTER III. 
THE STORE-KEEPER—-APLODONTIA LEPORINA—AMERICAN DIPPER. 
THE STORE-KEEPER. 
(Tamias guadrivittatus.) 
One of the liveliest, prettiest, merriest, and, to 
judge from appearances, the happiest little animal 
one meets with in North-western wilds, is a tiny 
squirrel, known and feared by the Indians, who 
have a name for it, unpronounceable by any 
mouth of ordinary conformation; and to attempt 
writing it is only to give a long list of double and 
single letters, the type-pattern for spelling Indian 
words. For example,—ch-a-ta la-ch,—what can 
you make of that? Corkscrew the word out, 
giving it all the throat-sound and tongue-twisting 
you can manage, and it has as little resemblance 
to the name, as rolled out from the larynx of a 
redskin, as the wheeze of a bagpipe has to the 
clear, rich, mellow note of the mocking-bird. 
To the scientific world my furry friend is 
