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me, so interested that he forgot to look to his foot- 
ing, and just opposite me slipped and bumped his 
nose hard against a stone, — so hard that he sat up 
immediately and vigorously rubbed it. Another time 
he followed me across to the garden and on to 
the barbed-wire fence along the meadow. Here he 
climbed a post and continued after me by way of the 
middle strand of the wire, wriggling, twisting, even 
grabbing the barbs, in his efforts to maintain his 
balance. He got midway between the posts, when 
the sagging strand tripped him and he fell with a 
splash into a shallow pool below. 
Did the family in the orchard wall stay together 
as a family for the first summer, I should like to 
know. As late as August they all seemed to be in 
the wall, for in August I cut my oats, and during this 
harvest they all worked together. 
I mowed the oats as soon as they began to yellow, 
cocking them to cure for hay. It was necessary to let 
them “ make” for six or seven days, and all this time 
the squirrels raced back and forth between the cocks 
and the stone wall. They might have hidden their 
gleanings in a dozen crannies nearer at hand; but 
evidently they had a particular storehouse, near the 
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