Flying Squirrels’ Queer

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Thursday Is.. Dec. 2.

A Papuan subscriber recently caught a pair of young squirrels in the bush and brought them home to train as pets. The new arrivals quickly caught on to the notion and began to make themselves thoroughly at home, learn ing to feed out of his hand and guard ing his slumbers at night rather too officiously by aerial exercises over his bed.

At times, however, they puzzled their master by suddenly vanishing and as mysteriously reappearing, though apparently never going outside the room. On such occasions, a thorough search was made for them, under the curtains, behind his ward robe. on top of the mosquito net, but without success. Finally, one day, the mystery was solved.

Their owner had put on a pair of trousers that had been hanging up on the wall for some time, and went out on his evening walk. Presently he felt something move in the pocket and, on putting in his hand, drew out his pets.

He hurried home, and is now leaving them undisturbed in their novel bun galow, in the hopes that they will rear a family there.