182 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 
with an abstracted intense: expression peculiar 
to them, were gazing over the scenery, when 
suddenly he pointed with his finger to the fence 
of a field, about two hundred yards off, with the 
exclamation, “See, yonder is a fox-squirrel, 
running along the top rail, it is not often I have 
seen one in Pennsylvania.” 
As not one other person in the group who 
looked in the direction with him, could detect 
the creature at all, his companions felt some 
skepticism as to whether he could discern the 
object so distinctly, as to discover its species, 
and curiously asked him if he were sure that it 
was a fox squarrel ? 
Audubon smiled, as flashing his eagle’s glance 
upon them, he answered, “Ah! I have an eagle’r 
e yes,” 
