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Nor does he recognize the place as Avernus which it is bound to be sooner or later but spells it Olympus in very truth. Man may be the devastator of the earth, and he certainly is so far as its wild life is concerned, but as a producer of succulence in the kitchen garden he is a deity before whom any woodchuck must fall down and worship.
"I'll be all right if I keep still a while," he stammered. "And then I'm going out to gather a nice lot of greens for you." "You'll do nothing of the sort!" said his mother. "You'll come with me. You'd be sure to get into mischief if I left you here." So off they went. And Mrs. Woodchuck hurried so fast that she was quite out of breath when she reached Aunt Polly Woodchuck's house.
Bixby also finds time to do some of the scouting about the rotunda and lobbies, for which he is justly celebrated, and to drill his regiment every day. The Honorable Heth Sutton, M.C., who held the bridge in the Woodchuck Session, is there also, sitting in a corner, swelled with importance, smoking big Florizel cigars which come from somewhere.
Woodchuck Island is a little mite of a sand heap off in the bay, two mile from shore and ten from the nighest town. I'd bought it and put up a shanty for a gunnin' shack; took city gunners down there, once in a while, the fall before.
"If the Muley Cow has a new one I don't want to call on her in my second best." So Mrs. Woodchuck waited. And at last they set off together to find the Muley Cow. They hadn't gone far before old Mr. Crow flapped down on a hummock near them. "If you're looking for the Muley Cow," he squawked, "you'll find her down near the lane. And she's wearing her new poke, too." They thanked him.
On the morning of that memorable day when, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" came to the capital, Amos had entered the Throne Room and given vent to his feelings in regard to the gentleman in the back seat who had demanded an evening sitting on behalf of the farmers. "Don't that beat all?" cried Amos. "Let them have their darned woodchuck session; there won't nobody go to it.
Woodchuck had gone just a few steps away from his doorway. And then Tommy stole after him. This time Tommy was between Mr. Woodchuck and his house. And Mr. Woodchuck couldn't escape. It was all over in a second. And Tommy Fox felt very proud of himself when he reached home and showed his mother what he had brought. "I can hunt can't I, Mother?" he said.
The woodchuck seems to be a link between the rabbit and badger; its colour is that of a leveret; it climbs like the racoon and burrows like the rabbit; its eyes are large, full, and dark, the lip cleft, the soles of the feet naked, claws sharp, ears short; it feeds on grasses, grain, fruit, and berries.
Then, as Tom saw the playing did no good, he thought he would sing also, and therefore he began bawling, at the top of his voice, "Over the hills, not a great ways off, The woodchuck died with the whooping-cough!" The farmer had stopped sawing to rest, just then; and when he heard the singing he rushed out of the shed, and chased Tom away with a big stick of wood.
'But, my friend, I said to him, 'woodchucks can't climb trees butternut-trees or any other kind and you know it! All he said in reply to me was: 'This woodchuck had to climb a tree! And that's the way with this congregation. You think you can't raise $1,500, but you've GOT to." So it went on.
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