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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Let me tell you something. You want to play fair with the dog. A dog has got more sense than some men. He can tell a loafer, after one wood-chuck hunt.
"I suppose that by this time he knows how to use it, Alfred," said Mrs Campbell. "Yes, ma'am," replied Martin, who had entered; "he knows well how to use and how to take care of it and take care of himself. I let him bring it home on purpose to watch him. He has fired and loaded twice as we came back, and has killed this wood-chuck," continued Martin, throwing the dead animal on the floor.
I suspect that he revolved the subject in his mind while he revolved the great wheel of the churning-machine, and that some turn or other brought him a happy thought, for next time he showed himself a strategist. Instead of giving chase to the wood-chuck, when first discovered, he crouched down to the ground, and, resting his head on his paws, watched him.
Yet in their lodges there is very little life, for the wood-people do not readily go into the shadows. The squirrels have their business among the beeches and hickories by the road-side, where they can watch the traffic and talk. The wood-chuck, a marmot and a strategist, makes his burrow in the middle of a field, where he must see you ere you see him.
The biggest four-footed animal, that lost its hide in the muster, was a thin-ribbed deer, and the stoutest battle given, was between wild Whittal Ring, here, and a wood-chuck that kept him at arm's-length, for the better part of an afternoon." "Thy tale may be true, but it neither finds that which is lost, nor completeth the number of thy mother's flock.
A squirrel's tail, therefore, is something more than ornament, something more than a flag; it not only aids him in flying, but it serves as a cloak, which he wraps about him when he sleeps. Thus, some animals put their tails to various uses, while others seem to have no use for them whatever. What use for a tail has a wood-chuck, or a weasel, or a mouse?
But this is what the preacher termed a 'wood-chuck case' and something must be done at once." She didn't understand what the wood-chuck case meant, till I told her that it simply meant we were "out of meat." I picked up my little valise, containing twelve bottles of Furniture Polish and started out. I walked down town, not knowing what to do.
Neither the skunk nor the rabbit digs his own hole, but takes up with that of a wood-chuck, or else hunts out a natural den among the rocks. In England the rabbit burrows in the ground to such an extent that in places the earth is honeycombed by them, and the walker steps through the surface into their galleries.
Two path; one for major; one for Tuscarora. Nick got dere first." "That I can believe, if you were in earnest. Were you not questioned by the way?" "Yes. Tell 'em I'm Stockbridge pale-face know no better. T'ink he fox; more like wood-chuck." "Thank you, Nick, for the compliment. Had my son reached Boston before you came away?"
Lydia's face was blank with surprise. "I thought you promised to sell him to big Jim Hooper." "I did, but I don't care for big Jim Hooper; you just tell him I let my wood-chuck go." The brother and sister went to their favorite playground between the ledges, not far from the small old barn.
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