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208 tail, frequently setting it up as a protection over its body; the ease with which it is tamed, and the elegant playfulness of its manners, have rendered it a favourite pet. It inhabits our forests

SQUIRREL.

and plantations, feeding upon acorns, nuts, beech-mast, the buds of pine-trees, and green bark. Large quantities of food are stored up by it in the hollows of trees for its winter supply, collected by its diligence during the autumn. Hence the Squirrel, like the Ant, is a fit emblem of industry and economy.