. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . ey were in sight the Prairie-dogs all barked, jerking their tails at each bark,and hid below. When all were gone Titowalked on toward the hole of the big fat fellowwhose body she coveted, and dropping theapple on the ground a couple of feet from therim of the crater that formed his home, she puther nose down to enjoy the dehcious smell ofDog-fat. Even his den smelled more fragrantthan those of the rest. Then she went quietlybehind a greasewood-bus
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . ey were in sight the Prairie-dogs all barked, jerking their tails at each bark,and hid below. When all were gone Titowalked on toward the hole of the big fat fellowwhose body she coveted, and dropping theapple on the ground a couple of feet from therim of the crater that formed his home, she puther nose down to enjoy the dehcious smell ofDog-fat. Even his den smelled more fragrantthan those of the rest. Then she went quietlybehind a greasewood-bush, in a lower placesome twenty yards away, and lay flat. After afew seconds some venturesome Prairie-doglooked out, and seeing nothing, gave the allswell bark. One by one they came out, andin twenty minutes the town was alive as of the last to come out was the fat oldAlderman. He always took good care of hisown precious self. He peered out cautiously afew times, then climbed to the top of hislookout. A Prairie-dog hole is shaped like afunnel, going straight down. Around the topof this is built a high ridge which serves as a312 Tito. lookout, and also makes sure that, no matterhow they may slip in their hurry, they are cer-tain to drop into the funnel and be swallowedup by the all-protecting earth. On the outsidethe ground slopes away gently from the , when the Alderman saw that strangeround thing at his threshold he was inspection led him to believe that itwas not dangerous, but was probably went cautiously toward it, smelled it, andtried to nibble it; but the apple rolled away, forit was round, and the ground was smooth aswell as sloping. The Prairie-dog followed andgave it a nip which satisfied him that the strangeobject would make good eating. But each timehe nibbled, it rolled farther away. The coastseemed clear, all the other Prairie-dogs wereout, so the fat Alderman did not hesitate tofollow up the dodging, shifting apple.
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