The Haymakers of the Snow Peaks 



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the Sierra pocket-gophers. Where the latter 

 are numerous, as on the higher slopes of Mount 

 Shasta, you may see, when the snow has gone 

 off in the spring, hundreds of little cake-like 

 elevations of soil which have been pushed up 

 underneath its crystal covering. These de- 

 posits show that all winter these small but hardy 

 ground-squirrels are burrowing about beneath 

 the frost in search of tuberous roots and other 

 food, and every now and then have poked their 

 heads above ground to push the earth out of 

 some newly bored tunnel, or to investigate the 

 condition of the world and the progress of 

 events. 



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