. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. A SEMIANNUAL SLEEPER. 249 wise, however, to be deceived by this purely super- ficial observance of better habits. . The wood- chuck is not only a nuisance but a bore ; it burrows beneath the soil and then chuckles to see a mowing machine, man and all, slump into one of these holes and disappear!" Now this most imiuteresting animal is a strict vegetarian; his home is usually on the border of a fertile field where food is consists of succulent grasses and herbs, roots, vege- tables, and es- .7//^^ peci
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. A SEMIANNUAL SLEEPER. 249 wise, however, to be deceived by this purely super- ficial observance of better habits. . The wood- chuck is not only a nuisance but a bore ; it burrows beneath the soil and then chuckles to see a mowing machine, man and all, slump into one of these holes and disappear!" Now this most imiuteresting animal is a strict vegetarian; his home is usually on the border of a fertile field where food is consists of succulent grasses and herbs, roots, vege- tables, and es- .7//^^ peciallvred „ ,„. .^. "On the border of a fertile field.' clover. Of the last he is particular- ly fond, and wherever there is a red-clover field one is pretty sure to see either a woodchuck or his burrow. Digging out a woodchuck's hole with the expec- tation of finding the occupant, is an undertaking too arduous to find a fit expression in words. The gal- lery slopes off at an angle of about twenty-three de- grees for a length of four feet; then, at a depth of three—sometimes only two—feet below the surface, it inclines upward in no settled direction and con-. 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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