Often they t.ikc u|i tlitir .-ibodr in deserted woodpecker 

 Iioles ; ;ig,-i)ii you may sli.-ike a little tree in which you notice 

 a li.ill of leaves and see tlin-e or four of them sail out in 

 as many directions. Their Hight is. of course, merely a 

 glide or a slide down the air, the skin lietween the fore and 

 hind legs forming when the legs are out-stretched a plane 

 that supports them sufficiently to enable them to glide at an 

 angle of about sixty degrees. They are as nimble as any 

 of the squirrels and whisk away up the trunks, flattening 

 themselves out against the limbs so that thev resemble bits 

 of bark or lichens. 



If you lisit the vicinity of their homes at twilight you 

 will see them chasing one another aliout, their shadowy 

 forms sailing from tree to tree. We wish that our eyes 

 were as keen .-is theirs so that we might watch them at 

 their play. They are very easily tamed, but they keep 



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