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makes a real spin-tsman, — the watching and waiting 

 and finding, not simjDly the greedy getting that makes 

 the selfish sort of man I call a Hunting Wolf." 



" You had better make the most of this easy nutting, 

 though," said the Doctor, " for when it comes to pick- 

 ing up chestnuts, you will have to look and poke about 

 between the leaves and stones, I can tell you." 



" I wonder what ]Mr. Long Xose is doing, and how 

 he is going to fix our camp for us," said Dodo, empty- 

 ing her little basket into the big one for the third time. 

 " 1 think we have enough now." 



" I thought there was some other reason for your 

 liurrj^ beside the filling of the bags. I never knew 

 before that children could have too many nuts. But 

 don't call your friend Long Nose, Dodo ; he has a real 

 name, though it was never used among his camp-mates." 



'• AVhat shall I call him then — Mr. Long ? " 



" No ; simply Nez, pronounced as it is spelled ; he 

 Avill understand it better, for if you called him Mister, 

 he would l>e put out, perhaps." 



" Oh, M'hat a big Squirrel ! " called Nat. " Twice as 

 large as those about the farm, and all one color, like a 

 ^laltese eat, only a little browner. There is another, 

 and another yet, chasing about like anything I See, 

 Uncle liny ; up there ! " 



"(iray Scjuirrels, and fine ones, too. Tliese are 

 exactly tlie sort of woods that suit them ; plenty of 

 hickories and beech trees, and water not far away." 



" How many kinds of American Squirrels are there? " 

 asked Dodo, " and is the lining of mother's coat made 

 of the fur of this gray kind ? " 



" There are sixty or seventy kinds in North 



