POCKET-GOPHERS IN THEIR HOME 



These peculiar creatures spend their lives underground, like the mole. The ani 

 pt the illustration is represented thrusting a mass of earth out of its burrow. 



interior of the '/living-room "is shown ; the animal on the left is stretching the O F . B w ~ ^^ Willl 



one paw while it thrusts in a fragment of potato with the other. The young pocket-gopher on the ri^ht 

 is eating in a characteristic attitude, the food being held between the paws. Just behind it, the opening 

 of the tunnel which connects the living-room with the animals' store-room may be distinguished 



imal in the upper division 

 In the lower division the 

 opening of a pocket with 



