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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



WOOD CHUCK, OR AMERICAN MARMOT. 



CHAPTER XV. 



HUNTING THE MAKMOT. 



ARMOTS are poor little inoffensive ani- 

 mals, and. hardly to be considered game. 

 The species of marmot found in Switzer- 

 land and Savoy, is carried about Eu- 

 rope by the little street musicians who 

 come from those countries. The species 

 of marmot known in this country, is the 

 wood chuck or ground hog, a favorite 

 object of pursuit among school boys. 



They are caught in the common box trap, or dug out from theif 



burrows. 



Our authority, heretofore quoted, gives the following account of 



the way in which the Marmot is hunted in Switzerland. 



