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The boys were vastly amused by the curious antics of these little fellows, who, although not human, possess many of the most distinguishing characteristics of humanity, in their actions. They have often been classed with the marmot by prairie Travellers; but, to my own mind, partake more of the nature of the squirrel or rabbit.
Ah, the pretty song, 'En revenant d'Auvergne!" And she began to sing as she played: "Eh, gai, Coco! Eh, gai, Coco! Eh, venez voir la danse Du petit marmot! Eh, venez voir la danse Du petit marmot!" The little girl pressed closer against the wall, her eyes wide open, her finger in her mouth, yet came nearer and nearer, drawn by the smile as well as the music.
"Well, you see, there's something that shouldn't be but is somehow about Tony which no one quite knows what it is though they knows it shouldn't be, and that's what Nuggan said," Cullen observed fluently but obscurely. "But what's that?" Marmot began as Cullen paused. He held up his hand, with his pipe between the finger and thumb, impressively, and Marmot stopped.
The Louisiana Marmot, improperly called Prairie dog, is about sixteen inches long, and lives in extended villages or excavations surmounted by mounds.
Unfortunately, he only appeared towards evening; for he spent the rest of the day in austerities and in prayers in other words, in drinking like a Turk and snoring like a buffalo. On the morning of the seventh day, after the promise given by the prince to the fisherman's daughter, Brancaleone came into his servant's room, and, shaking hint roughly, cried in his ear, "Up, odious marmot!"
I suppose when next I hear from him, he will have disappeared into some marmot hole at the foot of a tree in a Siberian forest. Sada is here. A pale shadow of her former radiant self. She is in deadly fear of what Uncle has written he expects of her when she returns. For the first few days of her visit, she was like an escaped prisoner. She played and sang with the girls.
He was too involved over the cause to want to hear Slaughter's well-worn theories on the management of the other sex. "Where's the cause?" he asked. "Well, put it plainer. Tony's like his mother, but how d'ye know he ain't more like his " "Smoke!" Marmot cried. "I get it. And yaller head found it out?" "I don't go after for to say that," Cullen said ponderously.
We went there later with a gun and found the little fellows playing like kittens, chasing each other about and rolling over and over. It was hard to make myself bring tragedy into their lives, but we needed them for specimens. A group showing an entire marmot family would be interesting for the Museum; especially so in view of their reported connection with the pneumonic plague.
"Why Tony well, there, he's the one lad I'd have taken into the store here to lend me a hand." The immensity of the admiration and confidence implied by the remark for the moment silenced every one. No higher compliment could be paid by Marmot. "It's a darned rum go," Smart, the saw-miller, observed solemnly.
"It ought to be, unless Birralong has changed," Tony answered, with a short laugh. "Now, suppose we give the Rest a chance?" Marmot looked round and smiled. Then he went to the back door, closed and bolted it, and came on to the verandah where they were, closing and locking the door after him, and suspending on a nail a notice-board, always ready, and bearing the legend, "Gone to Rest."
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