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Updated: May 21, 2025
Jimmy Rabbit was the first to suggest that perhaps Sandy Chipmunk didn't know. Jimmy and some of his neighbors were sunning themselves in Farmer Green's pasture one day. And while they were idling away the afternoon Sandy Chipmunk scurried past on top of the stone wall, with his cheek-pouches full of nuts. "There goes Sandy Chipmunk!" Jimmy Rabbit exclaimed. He called to Sandy.
It possesses also large cheek-pouches, similar in their use to those of monkeys. It is thus enabled to stow away the creatures it catches on its aquatic excursions, and to keep them there till it returns to the shore to dine. It feeds principally on fish, crustaceans, and aquatic insects.
She lay there for hours, entirely unaware of the saucy stares of several gophers who paused in their hunt for kernels and stood straight as picket-pins to watch and wonder at the little heap of pink calico under the battered sailor-hat, or whisked about her, their short legs flashing, their tails wide and bushy, their cheek-pouches so full of kernels that they smiled fatly when they looked at her, and showed four long front teeth.
And soon he appeared again with his cheek-pouches crammed full of wheat kernels. "There!" he cried, when he had dropped the grain in front of Uncle Sammy. "Just try a little of it! You'll agree with me that it's very fine." Uncle Sammy not only tried a little. He gobbled up every single kernel. "It seems to me to have a queer taste," he said. "Bring up some more!"
Listening so far in dumb amazement, Teresa checked the flow of information at tails and cheek-pouches. "What gibberish is this child talking to me?" she asked. "I want to know how the monkeys amuse themselves in that large house?" Maria's perfect training condescended to enlighten even this state of mind.
To and fro he went along the fence with his cheek-pouches full of corn and nuts. Little Luke often amused himself by watching him. He would pick up the nuts with his paws and put them into his cheek-pouches, and it was amazing how many they would hold. When he started for home, his cheeks sometimes looked as if he had a very severe case of the mumps.
Some, as the ground-hog, or wood-chuck of the United States, are as large as rabbits, while others, as the leopard-marmot, are not bigger than Norway rats. Some species have cheek-pouches, in which they can carry a large quantity of seeds, nuts, and roots, when they wish to hoard them up for future use. These are the spermophiles, and some species of these have more capacious pouches than others.
He took out of the tree, which was hollow, one bushel and three pecks by measurement, without the husks, and they supplied him and his family for the winter. It would be easy to multiply instances of this kind. How commonly in the fall you see the cheek-pouches of the striped squirrel distended by a quantity of nuts!
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