. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . CHAPTEE X. THE PRAIRIE F ever an inoffensive republic existed in theworld, it is certainly that of the AmericanmarmotSj the so-called jorame dogs. Amongthem, each individual lives as he pleases, inentire simplicity, without dreaming of evil, without thoughtof injury to his neighbour, of dispossessing him, or cheat-ing him, or living at his expense. There no government exists, and no conspiracies are neither presidents, nor consuls, nor magistrates
. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . CHAPTEE X. THE PRAIRIE F ever an inoffensive republic existed in theworld, it is certainly that of the AmericanmarmotSj the so-called jorame dogs. Amongthem, each individual lives as he pleases, inentire simplicity, without dreaming of evil, without thoughtof injury to his neighbour, of dispossessing him, or cheat-ing him, or living at his expense. There no government exists, and no conspiracies are neither presidents, nor consuls, nor magistrates,nor militia, nor policemen. What would be the good ofthem li If the marmot of the prairies—little member ashe is of the great family of the Rodents !—be vivacious,headstrong, and sometimes even petulant, he is, on theother hand, a social and sociable animal, who never dis- A PRAIRIE DOG VILLAGE. 139 turbs the public order. He is, in a word, a pattern forall created beings. I had often wished, during my residence in the UnitedStates, to visit one of their gigantic burrows; an ani-mated, buzzing, and swarming labyrinth. No opportun-ity offered, until
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