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The woodchuck's chief fame seems to rest on this trait, his ability to go to sleep before cold weather and not wake up again until the spring has again brought out the green things for his delectation. To be sure tradition has it that the ground hog comes to the mouth of his burrow on Candlemas Day and looks for his shadow that he may figure out how much longer he may sleep.
To-morrow, at sunrise!" Billy Woodchuck's heart sank. He wished he had never joined the army. And then an idea came to him. It was such a simple one that it is a wonder he hadn't thought of it instantly. Instead of going over the fence, to everybody's surprise he squirmed under it. And everybody was vastly relieved. Even Major Monkey appeared to be delighted.
I remember once carrying a jug of water up to Brother Curtis when his plough was within a few feet of the snow. Woodchucks would sometimes feel the spring through this thick coverlid of snow and bore up through it to the sunlight. I think the woodchuck's alarm clock always goes off before April is done, and he comes forth, apparently not to break his long fast, but to find his mate.
Any other animal would have taken to his heels and fled; but a woodchuck's heels do not amount to much for speed, and he feels his only safety is in his hole. On he came in the most obstinate and determined manner, and I dare say if I had sat down in his hole, would have attacked me unhesitatingly.
Woodchuck's son Billy helped himself to a piece of carrot from Aunt Polly's store of roots and herbs. "I must have a look at the Muley Cow this very morning," Aunt Polly told her caller. "Won't you come with me?" Mrs. Woodchuck said that nothing would please her more. So she ordered Billy to scamper home. "You'll have to wait till I put on my best poke," Aunt Polly said.
When Tilly and Timothy Toad and Eddie Elf and Gerty Gartersnake and Wallie Woodpecker and Billie Bumblebee and Winnie Woodchuck arrived at Grumpy Grundy's place they heard merry laughter and whenever the laughter ceased, they heard the buzz and rattle and hum of Willie Woodchuck's rattle. So they went inside.
He was very set in his ways. He claimed that he wouldn't be comfortable in a house that had maybe only two halls a front and a back one, as Billy Woodchuck's dwelling was known to contain. Maybe that was the reason why Grandfather Mole never went visiting. And as for anybody else visiting him well, what was the use when most likely you never could find him?
After a while they rose and went their way, these two companions, stopping here and there to look at a possible woodchuck's hole, or to strike a few hopeful blows at a hollow tree with the light axe which Isaac had carried to blaze new marks on some of the line-trees on the farther edge of their possessions.
"I thought so," said the Muley Cow. "And I'd like to have a talk with him." After leaving the Muley Cow, who was wearing her new poke down by the lane, Aunt Polly Woodchuck and Billy Woodchuck's mother met old Mr. Crow again. "Did you see her?" he asked them hoarsely. "Yes!" they answered. Mr. Crow gave them a sly leer. "What do you think of it?" he inquired.
He didn't even wait to get his own rusty coat and tattered hat, which he had left lying on the ground. Uncle Jerry hadn't been gone long when all the company came jostling up to Nimble. Everybody except Nimble was very merry. Amid a good many jokes the company put on their hats and coats, until only Aunt Polly Woodchuck's poke bonnet hung from Nimble's horns.
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