Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
answer, Yours truly, Elizabeth Williams (10years old). I have never heard a woodchuck bark, buthave often heard their shrill, tremulous whistlewhen attacked or surprised, and therefore in-quired of the writer of this letter, Are yousure that the woodchuck barked ? Was nt thesound more like a shrill… … THE WOODCHUCK. The writer sends a diagram of the positionsof the observer, dog, woodchuck, and a stonewall, and adds: I cannot better express the sound than by yap. Thewoodchuck evidently had a burrow near by, for it soondisappeared. I like the self-dependent spirit of that ob-servation. If that…
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