Hedgerow Life 
to do so. The squirrel makes a winter 
nest to sleep in among the branches of 
the trees, and also another in the spring, 
in which her little ones are born. The 
dormouse, however, is the squirrel of 
the hedgerow, and makes its nest there 
amid the interlacing twigs. A round, 
compact affair it is, without any visible 
hole for entrance. For the old dormouse 
opens the walls of dry grass when she 
wants to come in, and closes the hole up 
again afterwards. I have found this 
nest sometimes, and looked at the closely 
packed family inside. But both the 
dormouse and the squirrel, if their nests 
are once touched or handled, will forsake 
them immediately, and make a new nest 
in a different place, carrying their little 
ones to it one by one. I have returned 
within an hour after finding a nest full 
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