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CHIPMUNK LOSES BATTLE TO A TURTLE Hugh Turner ft Boston and Maine triiomah tells ihis queer story of a fight by qutvrtT con ¬ testants to a correspondent or Sports Afield AfieldI I was strolling around Crystal Lake Wakefield Mass between trips when I noticed a snapping turtle swimming ashore and sat down ou n rock to watch her Tjyj spapper gwam asjore acd crawling up some distance on the beach dug herself in anil began to lay her eggs As she was thus fiigaged ii chipmunk came hopping along and im ¬ mediately attacked the turtle The snappor pulleil In her head for a numient until the chipriuini gut near enough then her wicked looking head darted out like lightning and seized the chipmunks fore paw The snapper then waddled into Ihe lake dragging the squeeliug struggling chipmunk into deep water am gubjaergea
