Four-footed Americans and their kin . are canni-bals. . They do eat harmful insects also, but notenough to pay for the crops of corn and grain, whichthey commence to devour as soon as the seed is they keep on, with the ear in the milk and the ripe. Striped SpermophIle. MISCHIEF MAKERS 363 grain, cutting and gnawing the season through. TheSpermophiles, therefore, are on the farmers misery listwith the Gophers, and the owners of wheat fields, atleast, are beginning to think the hungry Coyote a ratherclever dog after all. The best known of these ground burrowers of theplains, that rea
Four-footed Americans and their kin . are canni-bals. . They do eat harmful insects also, but notenough to pay for the crops of corn and grain, whichthey commence to devour as soon as the seed is they keep on, with the ear in the milk and the ripe. Striped SpermophIle. MISCHIEF MAKERS 363 grain, cutting and gnawing the season through. TheSpermophiles, therefore, are on the farmers misery listwith the Gophers, and the owners of wheat fields, atleast, are beginning to think the hungry Coyote a ratherclever dog after all. The best known of these ground burrowers of theplains, that reach east of the Rockies from the Sas-katchewan country down to Texas, is the pretty StripedSpermophile. He is an inch or so longer than a Chip-munk, lightly built and slender; his coat is striped withlight brown bands, alternating with dark, light spottedbands, the whole coat being as exquisite and even asa woven fabric; yet he is a perfect nuisance, dislikingwoodlands, but appearing as soon as the trees are cleared,and never venturing far up mountain sides. His big brother, the gray mottled Rock or Line-tailed Spermophile, begins his range where the stripedone halts, burrows among the loose rocks on the sidesof the Rocky Mountains themselves, and is th
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