and at its greatest width is about half as wide as the body on either 

 side. With this as a parachute and with the assistance of his broad, 

 flat tail, he does indeed make rapid and graceful progress through 

 the air. His usual method of procedure is as follows : by jumps and 

 scrambles he climbs to the topmost branch of some tree, then 

 stretches his parachute to its farthest extent and sails downward 

 thirty yards or more, when, just as we expect to see him touch the 

 ground, he suddenly changes his course and, carried by his own mo- 

 mentum, veers upward at an angle of perhaps sixty degrees and 

 alights safe and sound on another tree trunk, all ready to repeat the 

 performance. 



In common with all his family, he is active and frolicsome and 

 we may regret that most of his antics are at night, thus escaping 

 our notice, for they would surely repay careful watching. During 

 the day he rolls himself up into a tiny round ball and sleeps soundly 

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