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"The squirrel gloats on his accomplish’d hoard,"
"Usually the red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius) waked me in the dawn, coursing over the roof and up and down the sides of the house, as if sent out of the woods for this purpose."

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, and flying squirrels. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were introduced by humans to Australia. The earliest known fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene epoch, and among other living rodent families,
"The squirrel gloats on his accomplish’d hoard,"
"The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot."
"Mossy-footed squirrels leap Soft as winnowing plumes of Sleep:"
"No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:"
"’Spareth a squirrel that it nothing fears But steals the nut from underneath my thumb, And when I threat, bites stoutly in defence:"
"Shy as the squirrel that leaps among the pine-tops,"