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And do not drink in the blinding sun- 

 light, which makes it hard to see if danger 

 is near; then, too, it is that the Black- 

 snake crawls out to seek some basking 



place in the hottest sun. 

 *£— Yes, this is Squirrel wisdom; the morn- 

 ing drink is at sunrise, the evening at 

 sunset, when the cool shade is on the 

 woods but darkness not begun. 



The Graycoat family held together still, 

 though the Harvest-moon was red in the 

 low eastern sky. Some Squirrel families 

 break up as soon as the young are nearly 

 grown. But some there are that are held 

 together longer, very long, by unseen 

 bonds of sympathy with which they have 

 been gifted in a little larger measure than 

 is common. Brownhead was much away, 

 living his own life. Still, he came home. 

 Nyek-nyek, gentle, graceful Nyek-nyek, 

 clung to her mother and the old nest, like 

 a very weanling; and rest assured that in 



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