124 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 

 ways may never have the good fortune to see 



one. 



The red and gray squirrels and the chipmunks 

 we all know, for they are the inquisitive busy- 

 bodies of the woods, and nothing delights them 

 more than to scold at an intruder upon what 



Prairie Dog at Entrance to Burrow. 



they are pleased to consider their especial reserve. 

 But these form the smallest part of this army. 

 The mice, of which there are many species be- 

 sides the common one whose acquaintance we 

 have made through its habit of using our dwell- 

 ing-places as its home, are numerous everywhere. 

 There is probably hardly a meadow that does not 



