. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 256 FAMILIAR lilFB IN FIELD AND FOREST. if he is given the chance, for the simple reason that it has been well seasoned with salt water from the ice-cream freezer. He does not hibernate like the woodchuck, but goes abroad both winter and summer on the coldest and hottest nights. He is also a strict vegetarian, feeding on succulent f,,^, bark, the foliage and twigs of trees, buds, and beechnuts; but he is always ready to gnaw a house down if it con- tains a grain of salt; and in the dead of the night he at
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 256 FAMILIAR lilFB IN FIELD AND FOREST. if he is given the chance, for the simple reason that it has been well seasoned with salt water from the ice-cream freezer. He does not hibernate like the woodchuck, but goes abroad both winter and summer on the coldest and hottest nights. He is also a strict vegetarian, feeding on succulent f,,^, bark, the foliage and twigs of trees, buds, and beechnuts; but he is always ready to gnaw a house down if it con- tains a grain of salt; and in the dead of the night he at- tacks the woodshed door with the vim of a rat and ten times as much assur- ance, for he can not be driven away with the thundering clatter of old boots and sticks of wood against the partition. Nine times in ten he will continue to gnaw until some one opens the door and clubs him away with a respectable-sized piece of cDrd wood; there is but one thing he heeds, all else fails, that is the firecracker ! Of this mysterious in- vention of a refined civilization he is suspicious; probably the fiery spluttering more than the noise awakens in his dull mind some sense of a danger. 'He is always "''â¢â ^â ^^"', ready to gnaw '"'^i'^^V;^ a house down. lV". Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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