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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
John Burroughs
John Burroughs
John Burroughs
Born: Apr 3, 1837
Died: Mar 29, 1921

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