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the least alarm they would flatten out on a limb 

 and were not easily seen from below. But 

 since they were no longer molested, the grow- 



A nest of dry leaves would be built high in a treetop. 



ing families soon repopulated the whole neigh- 

 borhood, and squirrels became so common that 

 neighbors complained of their depredations in 

 carrying away corn from the cribs in winter or 

 gathering the ears from the fields in autumn. 



The Naturalist and his boys often watched 

 the squirrels gathering the nuts from the big 

 walnut tree which overhung the "Bughouse," 



