LITTLE FOLKS THAT GNAW 



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often trying. What has really made the word 

 rodent repellent is the representative place taken 

 in our thoughts by the Norway rat and the 

 common house 

 mouse (both in- 

 troduced into 

 America, no 

 doubt uninten- 

 tionally, by the 

 early settlers). 

 A woman who 

 squeals at a 

 mouse and has 

 a genuine hor- 

 ror of a rat 

 will feed squir- 

 rels by the hour 

 in the park. 

 Yet all three are 

 rodents, and if 

 red squirrels 

 once get into a 

 house by gnaw- 

 ing a hole under 

 the roof, they 

 can be far more 

 of a pest than 

 mice or rats, and 

 make at least 

 ten times as 

 much noise. 



The squirrels are an interesting and numerous 

 family, from the familiar, aggressive, fearless, quar- 



The familiar, aggressive, fearless, quarrel- 

 some red squirrel 



