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of such animals have mostly acquired capacious 

 cheek-pouches in which they can transport a 

 fair supply of food to be eaten at leisure. 



During the larger part of the year the pick- 

 ings are scanty, and these mice, gophers, and 

 the like, are driven by hunger to seek and try to 

 save every bit of nutriment they can find; and 

 some seem to be imbued with so much anxiety, 

 or such superabundant restlessness and energy, 

 that they bring to their homes quantities of 

 things not edible, as well as far more food than 

 they are able to eat. The well-known habit of 

 the South American viscacha, as described by 

 Darwin, Hudson, and others, of dragging to 

 its burrow bright pebbles, flowers, lost trinkets, 

 and all kinds of orts and ends, strikingly ex- 

 hibits this sort of a disposition; and the crow 

 tribe the world over is noted for miserly pro- 

 pensities witness the sacrilegious jackdaw of 

 Rheims. 



Now, in some cases this secretiveness may 

 redound, quite unintentionally or unexpectedly 

 on his part, to the benefit of the busybody, and 

 in that case would be likely to increase in effec- 



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