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sun, and pick a few buds ; or if the day is very 

 cold and the snow light and deep, they burrow 

 for their noon-day nap. At three o'clock they 

 return to their feeding-place of the morning, and 

 then shortly before sundown go back to the scrub 

 to make their beds for the night. Here while 

 the cruel wind sweeps across the plains and the 

 thermometer of ttimes registers in the minus for- 

 ties, they remain cuddled snugly away from the 

 bitter night-world. 



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