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"Oh, see! see!" she cried, all excite careful ai ceased; the

chip Behind it lay the little anirazed the base of its brain He picked

it up gently in the palm of his hand and contee as a good-sized rat, quite

smaller than our own fence-corner chipmunks of the East It's little

sides were daintily striped, its little whiskers were as perfect as

those of the great squirrels in the timber bottoton was not a sentiround of the light-hearted day, see showed in his

eyes

The girl, who had drawn near, looked froain Then she burst suddenly into tears

"Oh, cruel, cruel!" she sobbed "What did I do it for? What did you

lethtly, "don't do that! Why, you are a great

hunter You got your game And it was a splendid shot We'll have hiet back ho out of it--a spectacle case," he suggested at randoive her time to recover, "but all

hunters feel that way occasionally See, I'll put hi can get him"