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the rocky region from the Canadian line to 
Mexico. 
Dog towns are dry towns. My cowboy 
friend had repeated to me what everyone thus 
far had told him: 
Prairie dogs dig down to water. 
Prairie dogs, snakes, and owls all use the same 
den. 
The water supply of dog towns and also their 
congested life so interested me that I visited a 
number of them to study the manners and cus- 
toms of these citizens. 
For two months not a drop of rain had fallen 
in Cactus Center. Not a bath nor a drink had 
the dogs enjoyed. I hurried into the town im- 
mediately after a rain thinking the dogs might 
be on a spree. I had supposed they would be 
drinking deeply again and swimming in the pools. 
But there was no interest. I did not even see 
one have a drink, although all may have had one. 
A few dogs were repairing the levee-crater rim 
of their holes, but beyond this things went on as 
usual. The rain did not cause dog town to 
celebrate. 
On a visit to the “Biggest dog town in the 
world,” near the Staked Plains in Texas, and 
where there were dogs numbering many millions, 
I watched well drillers at a number of places. 
Several of these wells, in the limits of dog town, 
