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but resolutely calm, appeared above the edge.  "Well" said he when he had gained his feet, "they don't seem to be disposed to pay much attention to us.  For Mable, at least, we ought to get up some kind of a breakfast.  Let us see if there is not a squirrel in one of these trees."  We agreed and Mable, who had been carried with us from the cedars was, told to wait patiently on the cliff till our return as we would not go out of sight.

We saw no rabbit tracks nor any kind of game in the grove that covered the slope, but on our passing under an isolated shell-bark, a shower of snow ^[[from one of the branches]] betrayed a red squirrel, who in fright dropped his nut and sprang to a higher limb on the opposite side of the trunk, knowing as well as we that he was a prisoner.  "Go around quietly to the other side," said Arnheim to Burton, "and we