extensive copse. Where the orchard and copse 

 meet is an apple-tree that has been the ancestral 



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" In a solemn row upon the wire fence." 



home of unnumbered geneiations of flying-squir- 

 rels. The cavity was first hollowed out by 

 flickers. The squirrels were interlopers. When 

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