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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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W. N. P. Barbellion
9
Went
out
with
L----
to
try
to
see
the
squirrels
again.
We
could
not
find
one
and
were
just
wondering
if
we
should
draw
blank
when
L----
noticed
one
clinging
to
the
bark
of
a
tree
with
a
nut
in
its
mouth.
We
gave
it
a
good
chase,
but
it
escaped
into
the
thickest
part
of
the
fir
tree,
still
carrying
the
nut,
and
we
gave
up
firing
at
it.
Later
on,
L----
got
foolishly
mischievous--owing,
I
suppose,
to
our
lack
of
sport--and
unhinged
a
gate
which
he
carried
two
yards
into
a
copse,
and
threw
it
on
the
ground.
Just
then,
he
saw
the
Squirrel
again
and
jumped
over
the
hedge
into
the
copse,
chasing
it
from
tree
to
tree
with
his
catty.
Having
lost
it,
he
climbed
a
fir
tree
into
a
Squirrel's
drey
at
the
top
and
sat
there
on
the
tree
top,
and
I,
below,
was
just
going
to
lift
the
gate
back
when
I
looked
up
and
saw
a
farmer
watching
me,
menacing
and
silent.
I
promptly
dropped
the
gate
and
fled.
L----
from
his
Squirrel's
drey,
not
knowing
what
had
happened,
called
out
to
me
about
the
nest--that
there
was
nothing
in
it.
The
man
looked
up
and
asked
him
who
he
was
and
who
I
was.
L----
would
not
say
and
would
not
come
down.
The
farmer
said
he
would
come
up.
L----
answered
that
if
he
did
he
would
"gob"
[i.e.
spit]
on
him.
Eventually
L----
climbed
down
and
asked
the
farmer
for
a
glass
of
cider.
The
latter
gave
him
his
boot
and
L----
ran
away.
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