DORMOUSE. 
On such occasions, they have their provi- 
sions laid in, and they have not far to seek for 
their support. In this manner they continue, 
usually asleep, hut sometimes waking, for 
about five months in the year ; seldom ven- 
turing from their retreats, and consequently 
hut rarely seen. Their nests are lined with 
moss, grass, and dead leaves. They usually 
bring three or four young at a time ; and that 
but once a year, in tlie spring.'' 
Buffon says, that " wlien thev grow large, 
they abandon their nests, and harbour in the 
hollows or under the trunks of old trees." 
