LITTLE BEASTS AND HOW TO FIND THEM 



and benefit to practically all the lesser inhabi- 

 tants of the woods, and only after it has become 

 saturated with water does it become a menace 

 to their welfare. 



It is hardly likely that the droughts we get in 

 this part of the country ever very seriously affect 

 any animal larger than a mole or chipmunk, 

 though a few weeks without rain would prob- 

 ably compel most of the others to seek out 

 new places of abode. But this in itself is not 

 by any means a matter of much consequence 

 to any of them. For I believe that, contrary to 

 general opinion, most of them are decidedly 

 nomadic by preference, and forever wandering 

 from place to place, even when hampered by 

 families of helpless young ones. 



