VARIED SQUIRREL. 
in deposited. The cats, however, frequently 
destroy them, on these occasions, in prodigious 
numbers, or their depredations would not seldom 
prove ruinous to the farmer. 
The Varied Squirrel bites very severely ; 
and is of so extremely wild a nature, that it is 
hardly possible ever to tame it. The skin, 
which is of but little value, is sometimes used 
for the linings of -cloaks. 
