"Ha! I smell acorns!" thought Squinty to himself. "I guess the boy must
want me to do the first trick, as he calls it, and dig up the acorns.
I'll do it!"
Carefully Squinty sniffed the air. When he turned one way he could smell
the acorns quite plainly. When he turned the other way he could not
smell them quite so well. So he started off in the direction where he
could most plainly smell the nuts he loved so well.
Next he began rooting in the ground. At first it was very hard for his
nose, but soon it became soft. Then he could smell the acorns more
plainly than before.
"See, he is going right toward them!" cried the boy.
"There, he has them!" exclaimed Sallie.
"Oh, so he has!" spoke Mollie. "I wouldn't have thought he could!"
And, by that time, Squinty had found the hole where the boy had covered
the acorns with dirt, and Squinty was chewing the sweet nuts.
"Now make him jump the rope," said Mollie.
"I will, as soon as he eats the acorns," replied the boy.
"Ha! I am going to have another apple, just for jumping a rope," thought
Squinty, in delight.
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