Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 284
e-dogs. We havefurry brown coats, and live in burrows in the ground.Sometimes the dry farmers who do not like us pourmolasses or sticky tar around our holes. Indeed, someof them have poisoned the seed-grains which are ourchief foods. We are quite sharp, though, and are sel-dom poisoned. In the… … TAKEN ON A HOLIDAY. BY ROSALIND O. ENGLISH, AGE IO.(SILVER BADGE.) might think that, living so near to one another, we andour neighbors eat about the same things. But theywould be mistaken. Mrs. Owl once told me they fed onparts of ugly crawling things called scorpions. She saidit took dozens and…
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