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clover. But I always listened very carefully. When I heard a 

 noise, I would stand up; and if it were a dog or something I did 

 not know, I would run as fast as I could to my hiding place. Some- 

 times when I wanted to go into the cabin, the door would be closed; 

 so I dug the clay from between the logs and made a door of my own, 

 so I could always be sure of getting in and out. I also dug a hole 

 under the cabin and went to it during the day. When I heard my 

 friends calling "Woody, Woody, Woody," I came, for they always 

 had some wild strawberries or something very good to eat, then I 

 would play with them. I would bite their fingers, roll over and 

 keep running in and out my hole. On cold days I loved to go in 

 the cabin and stretch myself out on my back as flat as a pancake 

 under the cook stove and warm myself. 



Once I went on a trip and stayed for several days. I explored 

 all the deserted cabins and wood piles in the neighborhood. I had 

 one narrow escape. Some bo>*s chased me, I hid in a wood pile; 

 they tore the wood pile down and when they found me I growled so 

 viciously that they were afraid to touch me Indeed after that I 

 never allowed any strange boN's to pick me up. When I returned 

 home I was most contented. I spent most of my time eating and 

 digging my hole deeper and carrying in paper and roots for my bed. 

 I was getting very fat and when it got cold and snowy, I went to 

 sleep and slept all winter long. In the spring I awoke and came out 

 I think my friends were looking for me for there was some one there 

 who stroked me and fed me a cracker. 



A New Periodical from India 



In Far India the land to which we have always looked to teach us mercy to 

 animals there has been recently established a new periodical, The Indian 

 Humitarian, which is the official organ of the Bombay Humanitarian League. 

 It is edited by Chaganlal P. Xanavaty. It is published monthly and costs 

 $.75 a year post paid. The address is 309 Shroff Bazar, Bombay. These first 

 niunbers are full of interest from cover to cover for animal lovers. Some of the 

 subjects discussed are Animal Sacrifices, The Innocent Subjects of Sport, Sug- 

 gestions for Cattle Relief Work in Famine, Help for Humane Legislations in the 

 Councils. This periodical deserves permanent success both for the ideals which 

 it upholds and for its interesting and valuable subject matter. 



