CONCORD. 
1914 
17-51 
T he killing of the Gray Squirrel by the Cat, to 
which I have briefly referred, is worth describing more fully. 
It happened about mid-day on April 27. All the while that Gilbert 
and I were at dinner (12-12.50) the Cat (a large maltese ahd 
white one) was sitting erect and still in the middle of the 
field in front of the house which had been ploughed last autumn. 
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She was so very conspicuous there that no/could, nave failed to 
notice her at the first glance. 
S hortly after dinner she began moving about slowly 
and uncertainly v/ith her nose to the ground like a Dog 
seeking a cold scent. Then she made a long, swift, gliding 
run to a deep furrow in which she crouched so flat as to be 
lost to my view. Only a few seconds later an uncommonly large 
Gray Squirrel appeared ambling sedately towards the center of 
the field from £t he) woods to the south of it. Apparently quite 
oblivious to the presence of the crouching Cat, he kept on at 
first straight for her and then inclined a ittle to the left 
of where she lay. As he was passing it at a distance of perhpps 
twenty yards, she sprang out from the furrow , when he instantly 
•wheeled and fled back towards the woods. She pursued with 
amazing speed, covering the ground by an unbroken succession 
of long, graceful bounds and going at least two feet to his one. 
Overtaken before the nearest tree could be reached, he 
dodged her once successfully by a sudden turn but she scarce 
overshot him then and caught him only a second or two later. 
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