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ory woods, and swung a mile away, till at 

 last he was on the far hillside where first 

 he met the Redhead. 



High in a tasselled pine he climbed and 

 sat, and his fine nose took in the pleasant 

 gum smells with the zest that came from 

 their strangeness as much as from their 

 sweetness. 

 jj^ As he sat he heard a rustling, racketty 



f &\ little noise in the thicket near. Flat- 



/ v ^y tening to the bough and tightening in his 

 /// L^C"~* tail ne watched. What should appear 

 V'( 1 J) kut k* s °^ enemy, the Redhead, dragging, 



\}^v v0 /; N l ~$(* struggling with something on the ground, 



\<C ^ stopping to sputter out his energetic, an- 



gry "Snick, snick" as the thing he 

 dragged caught in roots and twigs. Ban- 

 nertail lay very low and watched intently. 

 The Redsquirrel fussed and worked with 

 his burden, now close at hand. Banner- 

 tail saw that it was a flat, round thing, 

 like an acorn-cup, only many times larger, 



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