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farming more good than haim. The Gophers are tedi- 

 ous though easy animals to tra[), for they only live in 

 families during a very short time in the year, each indi- 

 vidual preferring a nest to himself. Poison is danger- 



Gray PocicKT Gopher. 



ous to domestic animals, when scattered about freely as 

 it would have to be in such cases, so that much honor is 

 waiting for some one who shall invent a cure for the 

 fiopher plague, but it must be a cure that is not worse 

 than the disease." 



" Perhaps you will find it out, Rap," said Dodo, 

 smiling confidently at him. 



"The well-known Vi'cJ, Pouched or 3/ole Gropher, the 

 chief species of the middle West, has a clumsy reddish- 

 brown body as long as a Chipmunk's, a large head, and 

 very wide, hair-lined, cheek pouches reaching to the 



