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finally spied out how to get up on the roof by 

 climbing onto an out-of-door cupboard, and 

 when next I saw her she was in the act of squeez- 

 ing herself through an unclosed crack up under 

 the eaves of the house, a place I hardly ex- 

 pected to find her. Her head, half her body, and 

 front feet were well inside, and with the hind, 

 long-soled paws she was scratching vigorously 

 on the boards outside, trying, by ludicrously 

 wiggling her body this way and that, to work 

 herself inside the house. Her persistence was 

 rewarded by her gaining entrance, and she got 

 her meal of crumbs and apples as usual. 

 Through the same opening she made her way 

 out before morning. Had you examined the 

 narrow passageway you could not possibly be- 

 lieve the animal could have got through it. 

 But where there is a will there is a way, even in 

 the mind of a skunk, and it is only too clever in 

 finding it out. 



THE END 



