. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER XXVI, THE SQUIRREL. From bough to bough the scampering Squirrels bound ;But soon, in smoky thunders, bite the ground ;Lifes gushing streams their sable furs defile. We hardly think it will be expected of us to include thesubject of Squirrel Shooting in this volume; however, as weknow something about the matter (perhaps nothing new),picked up during our early school-days in a great Squirrelcountry, it may not be amiss in us to devote a few pages tothes
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER XXVI, THE SQUIRREL. From bough to bough the scampering Squirrels bound ;But soon, in smoky thunders, bite the ground ;Lifes gushing streams their sable furs defile. We hardly think it will be expected of us to include thesubject of Squirrel Shooting in this volume; however, as weknow something about the matter (perhaps nothing new),picked up during our early school-days in a great Squirrelcountry, it may not be amiss in us to devote a few pages tothese interesting little creatures, that enliven the solitude ofour deep forests with frolicsome gambols. Our friend Porter, in his reprint of RaicJcer—by the by amost excellent work in itself, and made still more so by thevaluable additions of the editor—2:ives a most interestinsr ac-count of Squirrel Slwotinrj. If our readers would all peruse the articles referred to, inthe above publication, they would have nothing further to learnon the subject, save a few hints as to the habits of the animal. 332 lewis AMERICAN SPORTSMAN, VAR
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