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to point out a good place in which to dig for 

 water. Of course this is all nonsense, but 

 the divining rod is often used in spite of that. 

 But here are the evidences of a citizen of 

 the woods who seems better prepared to 

 withstand the winter, for he has learned to 

 rifle nature's storehouse. 



THE SQUIRREL 



A GOOD BURGLAR 



A good burglar does a clean job. He 

 does not crack the windows and break the 

 furniture. He makes a neat entrance that 

 will answer his purpose and not do violence 

 to his professional pride. These empty 

 walnut-shells lying under an oak tree have 

 caught my eye. Now walnuts would seem 

 to have no business under an oak tree, and 

 doubtless some animal that ate the kernels 

 brought the nuts here. It was not a boy, 

 for he is an unskilful burglar and would 

 have cracked the shell with a stone. The 

 clean-cut hole in each side of each shell tells 

 that the tool of a professional burglar has 

 been at work here. A little red squirrel is 



