. St. Nicholas [serial] . hindus,descend-very earththe groundbodied and close-hither and thitherprairies of the RED SQUIRRELSAND NEST. squir-rels be-and fairlying to thewe find firstsquirrels, long-haired, scurryingover the barrenWest, and living aberts squirrel, (see page 604.) in holes in the ground. Some are gray, but thebodies of many of them are gorgeously stripedwith yellow and black stripes, and lines of you see a yellowish-brown streak dartacross a prairie or a meadow, and, stoppingsuddenly, assume the form and fixedness of atent-peg a foot high, you may conclude thatthe crea
. St. Nicholas [serial] . hindus,descend-very earththe groundbodied and close-hither and thitherprairies of the RED SQUIRRELSAND NEST. squir-rels be-and fairlying to thewe find firstsquirrels, long-haired, scurryingover the barrenWest, and living aberts squirrel, (see page 604.) in holes in the ground. Some are gray, but thebodies of many of them are gorgeously stripedwith yellow and black stripes, and lines of you see a yellowish-brown streak dartacross a prairie or a meadow, and, stoppingsuddenly, assume the form and fixedness of atent-peg a foot high, you may conclude thatthe creature you have seen is a ground squirreland a spermophile. The most familiar form of this group is a lit-tle fellow whose Latin name is almost as longas himself—the Striped Spermophile, of thecentral United spermophile. The last mouthfui 0f his Latin name means thirteen-lined. Ofthe thirty species in this group, or genus, sev-eral are so destructive to growing grain that theyhave been made the subject of a
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