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lerj " lias more decided views on the subject of having his picture 

 taken. In a general way, it may be said that he doesn't pose for 

 anybody. Precisely how this prejudice was finally overcome it is 

 needless to state. Perseverance and " snap shots " were too much 

 for our recalcitrant rodent. In the matter of " looking pleasant " 

 it must be conceded that Mr. Geomys was a little intractable. 



The fore legs and feet of the " salamander " are worth studying. 

 They remind one somewhat of those of the mole, but are more 

 stoutly built, with much longer claws, and are evidently designed 



"Dump Heaps'' of thk 



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for harder tasks. They are controlled by powerful brachial and 

 pectoral muscles, and, as we shall see, are not only special tools 

 adapted to special and difficult work, but work which requires an 

 enormous expenditure of physical force. 



The engineering problems which this little troglodyte has to 

 solve are far and away ahead of any that the New York Rapid- 

 Transit Commission has to deal with. It is very much as though 

 a single miner were placed over in Jloboken, a hundred feet below 

 the surface, wdtli instructions to tunnel under the Hudson River 



