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I dream' he's out for little ron ven piece of noosepaper blow up in his face an' mak' him ron avay, yust same as horse. He snort an' yump, an' ron till he step in prairie-dog hole and broke his leg." "Strange!" said Willie. "What?" "My rest was fitful and disturbed and peopled by strange fancies a whole lot. I dreamp' he throwed the race!" A chorus of oaths from the bunks.
Or were we entering some Iowa village, where the first settlers still live who but yesterday banished the prairie-dog and the buffalo? But this disappointment and its ironical promptings were but fleeting. Five minutes' drive and we were in the true Jena with the real flavor of mediaeval-ism about us. Here is the hostelry where Luther met the Swiss students in 1522.
Not that the Ratler cared anything about the Prairie-dog, but he did not wish to be disturbed; and Tito, who had an instinctive fear of the Snake, was forced to abandon the hunt. The open stalk proved an utter, failure with the Alderman, for the situation of his den made every Dog in the town his sentinel; but he was too good to lose, and Tito waited until circumstances made a new plan.
They jogged across the mesa through the white drifts. Bob's pony stumbled into a burrow, but pulled out again without damage. In the years when cattle first came to the Rio Blanco the danger from falls was greater than it is now, even if the riding had not been harder. A long thick grass often covered the badger holes. "How does a fellow look out for badger and prairie-dog holes?"
We was ridin' through that prairie-dog town, used to be on the flat just after yu' crossed the south fork of Powder River on the Buffalo trail, and I said I'd dig an owl nest out for him if he was willing to camp till I'd dug it. I wanted to know about them owls some myself if they did live with the dogs and snakes, yu' know," he broke off, appealing to me. "Oh, yes," I told him eagerly.
Just tell it right out, an' I'll lean up against this tree, so as not to hurt myself should I faint." "Well," sez he, chucklin' like a prairie-dog. "I propose we paint up the goat with phosphorus, put him in the barn, an' me an' you get up in the trees to watch." "What's the goat done?" sez I.
It has been supposed that the prairie-dog hibernates; but this is not the case, though he lays in a store of provision for winter consumption he being as lively at that period as at any other, though he wisely prefers keeping within the house while the icy blasts blow across the plains.
On the vega below, the alkaline scars, as yet uncalcined by the sun's fires into glaring chalkiness, gave no offense in their moist neutrality, and the coyote slinking dejectedly among the deserted prairie-dog mounds was, in his ash-colored surtout, as inconspicuous as the long wan shadows cast by the weak spring sun.
Old Man said, "Little brothers, teach me how to do that." The prairie-dogs told him what to do, and put him in the fire and covered him up with the ashes, and after a little time he said, "sk, sk," like a prairie-dog, and they pulled him out again. Then he did it to the prairie-dogs.
Our route lay over a high, arid plain covered, as far as the eye could see, with a prairie-dog town, and for hours my ears were greeted with "Did you see that one?" "Ain't they funny little things? so cunning!" "How can we catch one?" "Just look at that owl!" and a hundred similar exclamations.
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