CHIPPING SQTTIRRFX. 



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a humble friend and servant, and is converted into a trembling 

 slave or a dangerous foe. Those who trained him have not 

 identified themselves with him. 



So it is with the study of zoology ; and the only method of 

 gaining a true insight into the motives of animals, and of identi- 

 fying ourselves with them, is to put ourselves, as far as possible 

 in their condition, and to think how we should act under the cir- 

 cumstances, were our instincts as powerful and our reason as 

 weak as theirs. 



North America is peculiarly rich in burrowing animals be- 

 longing to this order — so rich, indeed, that many curious species 

 must be omitted for lack of space. 



BUr.BOW AND STOnEHOUSKS OF CHIPPING 9QCTRREL 



Among these burrowers, the Chipping Squirrel, or Hackee, 

 or CflTPMUCK Cfamias Lysteri), is peculiarly conspicuous. It is 

 a very pretty little creature, brownish grey in colour, with five 



