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hibernation. If the author of Alice in Wonderland 

 had been an American, the sleepy Dormouse would 

 undoubtedly have been a woodchuck. "It stuffs 



Sitting on his haunches in a field of daisies 



on vegetables all summer, and sleeps all winter" — 

 that might be a summary of what a great many 

 people know about the woodchuck. But, like most 

 summaries, it would do him a grave injustice. As 



