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springs, bounced straight up into the air a couple 

 of feet or so and his playmate passed underneath. 

 The merry pair continued to practice this cotton- 

 tail form of leap-frog for several minutes. 



I once saw a deer run out of the forest in the 

 day time. Deer have done grievous injury to the 

 bark of a locust tree, and in the early days of the 

 forest I had to tie rags to a couple of white cedars 

 to prevent their entire consumption by deer. I 

 have not caught a weasel asleep, neither have I 

 seen one from my cot, but on one occasion on the 

 outskirts of the forest I came across a weasel 

 that sat up on end with its little forepaws hang- 

 ing down, and impudently watched me from a 

 distance of fifteen feet. At times it stood erect 

 on its hind feet, at times it squatted on its 

 haunches. It; was a long drawn out animal, 

 brown above, white below, tinged with creamy 

 yellow; the end of its tail was black; its ears 

 were large and its black beedy eyes were fixed 

 upon me. I stood motionless and whistled to 

 it softly. After a few minutes scrutiny it 

 dropped to all fours and bounded off like a 

 dachshund hobby-horse, but returned in a mo- 



