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fhoulders. Sometimes they only ran a little way 

 into the wood, and then returned home again to 

 the little hole that had been fitted up for them* 

 When they eat, they fit almoft upright, hold 

 their food between their fore feet, and their tail 

 bent upwards. When the tame ones got more 

 than they could eat at a time, they carried the 

 remainder to their habitations, and hid it amongft 

 the wool which they lay upon. Such tame 

 fquirrels {hewed no fear of ftrangers, and would 

 fuffer themfelves to be touched by every body, 

 without offering to bite. They fometimes would 

 leap upon ftrangers' cloaths, and lie Hill on them, 

 in order to fleep. In the farm-houfes, where 

 they were kept, they played with cats and dogs : 

 they likewife eat bread. 



THE wild grey fquirrels likewife hold up their 

 tails when fitting. As foon as they perceive a 

 man, they continually wag their tails and begin 

 to gnafh with their teeth, and make a great noife, 

 which they do not readily give over. Thofe 

 who go a {hooting birds and other animals, are 

 therefore very angry at them, as this noife dif- 

 covers them, and alarms the game. Though a 

 grey fquirrel does not feem to be very {hy, yet it 

 is very difficult to kill ; for when it perceives a 

 man, it climbs upon a tree, and commonly 

 chufes the higheft about it. It then tries to hide 

 itfelf behind the trunk, fo that the {hooter may 

 not fee it, and though he goes ever fo faft round 

 the tree, yet the fquirrel changes its place as 

 quickly, if not quicker j if two boughs bend to- 

 wards each other, the fquirrel lies in the middle 

 of them, and prefies itfelf fo clofe, that it is hard- 



