A TRIBE OF GNAWERS AND THEIR FOOD 



FIELD SKETCHES IN PENCIL OF WILD WESTERN 



CHIPMUNKS 



IN THE CAGE WITH THE CHIPMUNKS, 



my idea being that the chipmunks would run 

 around the cage in the day time and sleep at night, 

 while the mice would run around at night and sleep 

 during the day. I was perfectly right in my con- 

 clusion, but made a grave mistake of judgment in 

 regard to the size of the hole which a chipmunk 

 can enter, and when I visited the minnow box in 

 the morning the. rags with which the chipmunks 

 had made a nest in the corner of the cage still 

 occupied their accustomed place; there was no 

 means of escape visible by which the prisoners 

 might have freed themselves; but no chipmunks 

 were in sight. 



I violently shook the cage, and to my great sur- 

 prise the two chipmunks, one following the other, 

 emerged with some difficulty from the small hole 



