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himself liberated beside his own stream, not 
a bit the worse for its experience. And one 
day he found a strange slate-colored dor- 
mouse, but it had managed to get out of its 
cage by its own ingenuity or some one’s help. 
Another day he caught several little 
squirrels, first getting one, then another, and 
another, and letting them pass by a bridge of 
his own or his father’s contriving, from one 
box to another, but they were all to be set 
free in a short time and seemed to think it 
was mere play. At first they seemed to try 
to tease each other, their comrades, for the 
moment. He had discovered that in this first 
stage they would not eat, but after a while 
he had rushed into the house to tell Willard 
his new discovery. 
' ‘‘Why, Willard, they’ve all got acquainted 
with each other, and they know me. They 
seem to know that I don’t mean to hurt them, 
and now they ‘grab’ for everything I offer 
them to eat.” 
