Pond Life 
call it almost to your feet. All you have 
to do is to stand still and squeak or 
squeal like a rabbit in difficulties. Even 
if you don’t do it very well, it doesn’t 
matter. Any squeaking noise made 
with the lips will bring them hunting 
and looking about for the supposed rabbit, 
and if you stand quite still they will 
come quite close. Sometimes they seem 
in a playful mood, and I have known 
one peep round a tree trunk at me, sit 
up on its hind legs and run to another 
tree, and dodge about as if playing 
‘hide-and-seek,’ or ‘peep-bo.’ And 
squirrels will often have a game of the 
same sort, peeping round at you first 
from one side of the tree and then from 
the other in quite a friendly fashion. 
Perhaps the commonest pond creature 
is the frog and its young, the tad- 
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