DORMOUSE. 
plumper; and has round naked ears ; full 
black eyes ; and a tail two inches and a half 
long, surrounded with short hairs, and bushy 
at the end. The general colour is a tawny 
red, the throat being white: Like the Squirrel, 
it sits up on it's hind legs when eating ; uses 
it's fore paws to carry it's food ; and conceals 
what it cannot use. 
Goldsmith thus describes these animals — 
" They inhabit," says he, " the woods or very 
thick hedges, foiming their nests in the hollow 
of some tree, or near the bottom of a close 
shrub ; humbly content with continuing at the 
bottom, and never aspiring to sport among the 
branches. Towards the approach of the cold 
season, they form a little magazine of nuts, 
beans, or acorns ; and, having laid in 'heir 
hoard, shut themselves up with it for the winter. 
As soon as they feel the first advances of the 
cold, they prepare to lessen it's efFe61:, by rol- 
ling themselves up In a ball, and thus exposing 
the smallest surface to the weather. But it often 
happens, that the warmth of a sunny day, or 
an accidental change from cold to heat, thaws 
their nearly stagnant fluids, and they revive.^ 
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