THE CHIPMUNK 



der of the gun announces his tragic fate. 

 He keeps well the secret of constructing 

 his cunning house, without a show of 

 heaped or scattered soil at its entrance. 

 Bearing himself honestly, and escaping 

 his enemies, the cat, the hawk, and the 

 boy, he lives a long day of happy inof- 

 fensive life. Then when the filmy cur- 

 tain of the Indian summer falls upon the 

 year again, he bids us a long good-night. 

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