The moment he escaped, the boys exclaimed, "O, catch him, catch him,"
and were going to run after him; but Jonas said that it would do no
good, for they could not catch him again now, and had better stand still
and see what he would do.

He soon began to run along on the beam; thence he ascended to the
scaffold, and made his way towards an open window. He jumped up to the
window sill, and then disappeared. The boys all ran around, outside, and
were just in time to catch a glimpse of him, running along on the top of
the fence, down towards the woods again.

"Do let us run after him and catch him," said Rollo.

"Catch him!" said Jonas, with a laugh, "you might as well catch the
wind. No, the only way is to set our trap for him again. I meant to let
him go, myself; but he is not going to slip through our fingers in that
way, I tell him." So Jonas went down that night and set the trap again.

For several days after this, the trap remained unsprung, and the boys
began to think that they should never see him again. At last, however,
one day, when Rollo was playing in the yard, he saw Jonas coming up out
of the woods with the trap under his arm. Rollo ran to meet him, and was
delighted to find that the squirrel was caught again.



HOW TO KEEP A SQUIRREL

Jonas contrived to tighten the wires of the lender, by weaving in other
wires so as to secure the little prisoner this time; and when he was