Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 565
but I believe only the meadow-mice areaccused of being really ferocious, and ofwaging battles constantly among themselves. Theirfood is the tender stems of young grasses andherbs, seeds, nuts, roots and bark, and they lav upstores of food for the winter, since none becometorpid at that season, as… … THE LONG-LEGGED JUMPING-MOLSE. tail tightly about him, and becomes dead to all out-ward things until the warmth of spring revives him,which is certainly an easy and economical way toget through the winter ! They also eat insects, oldand young, particularly such kinds as are hatchedunderground or in…
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