not got ripe, on to t by my door, and was amused by

    cions of ted by it.

    In ts came regularly and made a

    y meal.  All day long t, and

    afforded me mucertainment by their manoeuvres.  One would

    approac first he

    sno by fits and starts like a leaf blohe wind, now a

    fee of energy, making

    inconceivable e ;trotters,quot; as if it were for a wager,

    and no  never getting on more than half

    a rod at a time; and th a ludicrous

    expression and a gratuitous somerset, as if all the

    universe were eyed on ions of a squirrel, even

    in t solitary recesses of t, imply spectators as

    mucing more time in delay and

    circumspection to ance

    -- I never sahen suddenly, before you could say

    Jack Robinson, op of a young pitch pine, winding

    up ators, soliloquizing and

    talking to all t time -- for no reason t I

    could ever detect, or .  At length

    ing a suitable ear, frisk about

    in tain trigonometrical o topmost stick of my

    wood-pile, before my window, whe face, and

    t for ime to

    time, nibbling at first voraciously and the half-naked cobs

    about; till at lengty still and played h his

    food, tasting only the ear, which was

    ick by one paw, slipped from his careless

    grasp and fell to t it h a

    ludicrous expression of uncertainty, as if suspecting t it had

    life,  made up  it again, or a new one,