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shoulders ; small ears, small ej'es, and long gnawing 

 teeth that overhang the lips. It sleeps the winter 

 sleep, which I wish jou to remember the Wise Men call 

 hi-her-jia-tiiu/. 



"The Gray Pocket or Nortliern Gopher is found 

 further north than any of its kin, touching his Red 

 brother's haunts, and ranging from Montana to the 

 plains of the Saskatchewan country where Nez shot his 

 Moose. This species is smaller than the Red Pouched 

 Gophei', and has hoary, brownish-gray fur ; otherwise it 

 does not greatly differ from it. 



Kangaroo Rat. 



"Now come two lighter, more graceful fourfoots be- 

 longing to the Family of Pouched Rats and Mice, — 

 the Kangaroo Rat and the Pocket Mouse. 



" The Kangaroo Rat looks like a joke on legs. To 



