IN FEATHERS AND FUR 
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In Sumatra there are Squirrels living in groves that become 
quite tame. If you hold out your hand with crumbs in it, they will 
come down from the trees and take it from your fingers. That is 
because they have never been teazed and killed by the people, so 
they have not learned to be afraid of them. 
How long do you suppose Squirrels would be tame when you 
American boys could get at them ? 
There are several kinds of squirrels in our country, as you 
country children know well enough. No doubt you have had many 
a long chase after one of the saucy little fellows, only to see him 
leap from the top of the rail fence into the branches of a tree, and 
disappear among the leaves. 
City youngsters who stand before shop windows to watch the 
pretty little creatures turning those frightful revolving cages, have 
little idea of their beauty in their native woods. 
Perhaps the prettiest, and at any rate the oddest variety, is the 
flying squirrel, of which here is a picture. 
The bright-eyed little fellow lying full length on a branch, and 
looking at you, looks like any other of his race, but in the climbing 
one you can see the edge of the loose skin which reaches from one 
