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ground. If they get into a granary, they do as 

 much mifchief as mice and rats. It has often 

 been obferved that if, after eating rye, they come 

 to fome wheat, they throw up the former, which 

 they do not like fo well as the wheat, in order to 

 fill their belly with the latter. When the maize 

 is reaped in the fields, they are very bufy in bit- 

 ing off the ears, an'd filling the pouches in their 

 mouth with corn, fo that their cheeks are quite 

 blown up. With this booty they haften into the 

 holes which they have made in the ground. 



As a Swede was making a mill -dyke, pretty 

 late in autumn, he employed for that purpofe 

 the foil of a neighbouring hill, and met with a 

 hole on a fub terra neons walk belonging to 

 thefe fquirrels : he followed it for fome time, and 

 difcovered a walk on one fide like a branch, part- 

 ing from the chief ftem : it was near two feet 

 long, and at its end was a quantity of choice 

 acorns of the white oak, which the little careful 

 animal had ftored up for winter. Soon after he 

 found another walk on the fide like the former, 

 but containing a fine (lore of maize : the next 

 had hiccory nuts, and the laft and moft hidden 

 one contained fome excellent chefnuts, which 

 Plight have filled two hats. 



IN winter thefe fquirrels are feldom feen, for 

 during that feafon they live in their fubterraneous 

 holes, upon the provisions which they have ftored 

 up there, However on a very fine and clear 

 day they ibfnetimes come out. They frequently 

 dig through the ground, into cellars in which 

 the country people lay up their apples, which 

 they partly eat, and partly fpoil, fo that the maf- 



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