. 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 . into it,and before long it opened out into a large store-house that was filled with over a pint of seedsof the prairie sunflower. This room was sunkendeepest of all in the ground, and was also inthe shadiest part of the mound, so that the seedwould be in no danger of heating or one end of this chamber was another blindlead that possibly was used in filling the ware-house and afterward sealed up for safety. Therewere many of these bhnd
. 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 . into it,and before long it opened out into a large store-house that was filled with over a pint of seedsof the prairie sunflower. This room was sunkendeepest of all in the ground, and was also inthe shadiest part of the mound, so that the seedwould be in no danger of heating or one end of this chamber was another blindlead that possibly was used in filling the ware-house and afterward sealed up for safety. Therewere many of these bhnd alleys. They ap-peared to be either entrances plugged up or elsedeliberate plans to mislead an intruder who didnot have the key to the secret door. Yet one more chamber was found, and thatwas a second storehouse, a reserve supply ofcarefully selected helianthus seeds, about half agill of them, and yet not a bad one or a shriv-elled one was to be found in the lot. But I did not find any of the Perodipus family,and think it possible that when they heard myrude approach they all escaped by some othersecret passage that I failed to
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