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They make beds in them of dry leaves, or 

 grass, or any thing soft and dry which they 

 can find. They cram their mouths full of it 

 to carry, when they are making their nests. 

 As soon as cold weather begins, the animal 

 goes into his house, and stops up the hole on 

 the inside ; and there he stays till the warm 

 weather has come again. 



" He is quite a thief at times. I saw one 

 once which a gentleman had tamed, and he 

 played about the yard ; but every thing that 

 he could get hold of which was fit to make 

 his bed of, he was sure to steal, and carry 

 into his hole under ground. When clothes 

 were hung out to dry he would take them off 

 the line, and as soon as any were missed the 

 washerwoman knew very well where they 

 were. She kept a long stick with a hook at 

 the end of it, and with this she drew them out 

 of the burrow. He soon found out what it 

 meant, and whenever she used the stick, it 

 was necessary first to tie him up ; for he did 

 not choose to have his bed spoiled, and would 

 run to the hole and try to get in, and prevent 

 the clothes from being drawn out. One day 

 he stole eight pairs of stockings, a towel, and 

 a little girl's frock ; and he carried them into 



