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DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



SKETCH OF WESTERN CHIPMUNK FROM LIFE 



a large pickerel frog when the latter, by a skil- 

 fully executed back jump, threw the chipmunk off 

 the trail. The grass was long and to get a better 

 view of the field the chipmunk mounted a large 

 stone and from this vantage ground watched with 

 keenest interest the grass about him, but the frog 

 had had a narrow escape from a foe with which 

 it had had previous encounters, so it lay quiet, 

 concealed by the grass until its enemy, tired of its 

 watch, went to the kitchen door for its accustomed 

 bit of table leavings, then the frog hastened to its 

 home under the board steps. This little bit of 

 wood play was enacted in full view of an inter- 

 ested audience in the cottage, people who were the 

 personal friends of both the frog and its foe. 



My readers must not understand by these re- 

 marks that I approved of, or even intentionally, 



