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Title: Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers

Author: John Burroughs

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SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS

by

JOHN BURROUGHS

With Fifteen Illustrations in
Colors after Audubon, and
a Frontispiece from Life

[Illustration: RED FOX. (Page 53)]

Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright 1875, 1879, 1881, 1886, 1894, and 1900,
by John Burroughs
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. Squirrels 1
II. The Chipmunk 15
III. The Woodchuck 32
IV. The Rabbit and the Hare 38
V. The Muskrat 43
VI. The Skunk 48
VII. The Fox 53
VIII. The Weasel 72
IX. The Mink 90
X. The Raccoon 94
XI. The Porcupine 98
XII. The Opossum 106
XIII. Wild Mice 111
XIV. Glimpses of Wild Life 125
XV. A Life of Fear 135

INDEX 145

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Red Fox (page 53) (From a photograph by