LITTLE BEASTS AND HOW TO FIND THEM 



Hares, muskrats, gray squirrels, and chipmunks 

 are perhaps the most frequent victims of disease ; 

 while curiously enough woodchucks and skunks, 

 which never take an unnecessary step, apparently, 

 and are enormous eaters at all times, except when 

 dormant in the winter, are astonishingly healthy. 

 Few of the smaller animals seem to be greatly 

 inconvenienced by the loss of a leg after the first 

 few weeks. About the only noticeable change 

 is that an animal with only three legs prefers to 

 escape by hiding wherever it may happen to be, 

 instead of running away, though when necessity 

 requires it, such an one will nearly always be 

 found capable of making as good time as Its 

 uninjured fellows. 



Although the majority of them are classed as 

 nocturnal, there are very few of our little beasts 

 that do not appreciate the sunlight sufficiently to 

 seek out sunny nooks beneath stumps and ledges 

 for their mid-day naps, even at mid-summer ; just 

 as cats, which are probably about as nocturnal as 

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