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to the rocks behind. I made a dash for her, catching- her bv the end of 

 the tail, which resulted in snapping off the tail about midwav. The 

 following year ( 1913) she was about again as usual, being easily 

 recognized. by her stub tail (fig. 10). 



" W'e did not visit the quarry from 1913 until the latter part of 

 July, 1917. Just after a blast had been fired, which was the signal 

 to the squirrels that we were about to eat lunch, we saw two or three 

 of them coming down from the cliffs above. A few minutes later. 

 Granny suddenly appeared at the edge of the quarry. I called her. 



Fig. 12. — One of the party who would insist on sleeping heneath the pine 

 trees away from the lent, as seen on the morning of July 27 at Burgess 

 Pass camj). Photograi)h hy W'alcott, loi/- 



' Granny,' and whistled. She immedialel\- ran across the tloor cf 

 the f|uarry, jumped upon my foot and ran up my leg. hnall\- sitting up 

 and begging for something to eat as she had (hme tin- years belore. 

 Tliere were three strange jK-rsons in the (|uarry, and slie would not 

 go near them for several days until she had tiie opportunity of gelling 

 acquainted. The striking feature of this incideiU is that this moun- 

 tain squirrel should \va\v rt-mrnilierrd tliroiiL;li a ])erioil ot lour years. 

 and at once ran and jumped up on me as she batl been accustomed to 

 do in the years before. 



