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smoked beef was eaten but on others it was refused. I have seen 
one get on the back of the other and hold him down while he 
pulled hard at the piece of bread or nut, and if he got it his com- 
panion would treat him in the same way, and so the nut would 
change mouths many times before it would be entirely eaten. 
There were many ungnawed nuts but only one squirrel was in- 
clined to do the gnawing, the other relying upon getting some- 
thing away from him. All the time these scrambling matches 
were going on, the squirrels uttered a plaintive cry, a sort of dis- 
satisfied grunt. However, their quarrels were easily mended, for 
oftentimes when one was lying in the sun the other would come 
and lick him tenderly over the head and body, as cows do one an- 
other. When a pear was given to them the skin was first removed, 
sometimes quite a large space being peeled before even the first 
little nibble was taken. The pieces of pear skin were thrown out 
to the left and were for the most part about as large as the nail 
on one’s little finger. 
Squirrels have a considerable knowledge of odors, for with a 
tame squirrel that will permit you to put your head close down 
to his while he is investigating anything, the constant sniffing of 
the air is one of the first things to be remarked. Like rats, mice, 
and rabbits, their noses are kept constantly moving to catch the 
varied scents that may give them a knowledge of the surroundings. 
My squirrel used to come to a small round hole in the cage, and 
instead of putting its eye there to see what was going on without 
it would place its nose at the opening, showing that it relied more 
on the sense of smell than sight in such cases. 
After one squirrel had died I placed the cage one night in the 
chickenhouse, hanging it up on a nail. I thought that the squirrel 
might like to view the rats and chickens at a distance, and that 
they would afford him companionship. However, at the end of 
a day I found my squirrel so frightened that he would not come 
to the bars of the cage to see me when I came to feed him, so J 
took him back to his old quarters and he soon regained his socia- 
bility. 
