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angry at them, as this noife difcovers them, 

 and alarms the game. Though a grey 

 fquirrel does not feem to be very {hy, yet it 

 is very difficult to kill -, for when it per- 

 ceives a man, it climbs upon a tree, and 

 commonly chufes the higheft about it. It 

 then tries to hide itfelf behind the trunk, 

 fo that the fhooter may not fee it, and 

 though he goes ever fo faft round the tree, 

 yet the fquirrel changes its place as quick- 

 ly, if not quicker: if two boughs bend to- 

 wards each other, the fquirrel lies in the 

 middle of them, and prelTes itfelf fo clofe, 

 that it is hardly vifible. You may then 

 fhake the tree, throw flicks and ftones to 

 the place where it lies, or fhoot at it, yet 

 it will never ftir. If three branches join, it 

 takes refuge between them, and lies as 

 clofe to them as poffible, and then it is fuf- 

 ficiently fafe. Sometimes it efcapes on a 

 tree where there are old nefts of fquirrels, or 

 of large birds : it flips into fuch, and can- 

 not be got out, either by fhooting, throw- 

 ing, or any thing elfe ^ for the grey fquir- 

 rels feldom leap from one tree to ano- 

 ther, except extreme danger compels them. 

 They commonly run diredly up the trees 

 and down the fame way, with their head 

 ftraight forward. Several of them which 



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