THESRED 
SQUIRREL 
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“J icsome and ju- 
FETE red squirrel 
is the most frol- 
bilant of the family to which 
he belongs. Inthe gloom of 
the sombre coniferous for- 
ests where his cousins could 
not exist, he, with his in- 
telligence, genuine industry, 
and happy faculty of adapt- 
ing himself to his surround- 
ings, lives, thrives, and in- 
creases. 
If the annual nut crop, 
which furnishes the princi- 
pal source of supply for 
should 
fail, many of the squirrel 
the winter store, 
family would be forced to migrate; not so, however, 
with the red, for he can keep the “wolf from the 
door” by subsisting upon the buds, seeds, and 
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