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. St. Nicholas [serial] . bles, it leapedfrom bough to bough, and finally jumped off andscampered away across the pasture, with Rough infull pursuit. He overtook it before he reached thenext tree, and chased it into a bush, where Tommycaught it with our squirrel-net. In catching it hebroke off a piece of its long tail, but it was other-wise uninjured, and a very pretty-looking moss-green creature, so we put it in one of the wirebaskets. On the ridge of the mountain-range we stoppedat the edge of a steep cliff, and when we looked 37Q IN NATURES WONDERLAND. [March, about for a place to sit down and rest awhile, a into a trap; she could not possibly retreat without thing like a black fox jumped up among the rocks, and clambered up a big fir-tree as nimbly as a cat. Hello! Thats a cedar-squirrel, said the guide, There running right into Menitos clutches, nor jump offwithout falling into an abyss about six hundred feetstraight down. But, instead of growing uneasy, shetrimmed her fur with great complacency till Men-. THE THING IN THE TREE-TOP LOOKED LIKE she goes! Will one of you gentlemen lend meyour gun for a minute ? No; but hold on ! cried Tommy. It wouldbe a pity. I wonder if we could not catch heralive? I will do it for fifty cents, said Menito. Shecant get away from that tree. The fir-tree stood close to the brink of a preci-pice, and was almost bare, with the exception of afew brushy twigs among the top branches. Do you think you could get up there? Iasked. Of course he can, said Little Mischief. Iwill do it myself for fifty cents, if he wont. Why, you have as much sense as a humanbeing; but you are too late, Master Slyboots, saidMenito, and began to ascend the tree. T, he squirrel clambered up higher and higherwhen she saw him come, and we thought she wouldgo up to the very top. But when she got abouthalf-way up, she jumped on to a stout side-branchthat overhung the precipice, ran out to the farthestend, and then faced boldly about, as if she defiedanybody to foll