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will get one on his liook or a marksman bring one down 

 with a well-placed rifle ball. They are very tenacious of 

 life, chloroform seeming to be about the only medium to 

 quickly end their career. They also have a bulldog-like 

 stubborness in hanging to an-\i:hing when their anger is 

 aroused. I have seen one weigliing forty pounds carried 

 a distance of half a mile while suspended from a stick 

 solely by the grip of its jaws. 



Upon the approach of winter, they bury themselves 



j4 turtle uvighing 40 pounds hanging solely by the grip of his IJ-^'S. 



