Chuckie Awakes from the Winter’s 
Sleep. 
On page 85 of our number for No- 
vember we published an article, “Mv 
Pet Woodchuck,” by Miss Anna K. 
Bewley, Forestgrove, Pennsylvania. 
During the winter that woodchuck was 
in hibernation, but on March 27 Miss 
Bewley wrote to us as follows : 
“Memory, according to the diction- 
ary, is ‘that faculty of the mind by 
which it retains knowledge of previous 
still had the six weeks of winter. 
“If, as our ‘naturalists’ try to teach 
11s, animals have no reasoning powers 
but only instinct, it might be interest- 
ing to know by what instinct our 
Chuckie has learned to remember. 
“He takes pleasure in sitting in the 
sun near his hole under the kitchen. If 
a strange person or dog comes his way. 
he is out of sight in a flash ; but he fol- 
lows me into the house and joyfully 
plays with our dog at every oppor- 
tunity. 
WOODCHUCK AND DOG CHUMS. 
occurrences, acts, thoughts, etc., and 
recalls them.’ 
“From this we have decided that our 
pet woodchuck (‘Chuckie’) must have 
a ‘mind’ because when he came out of 
his long winter ‘sleep’ or hibernation 
March 22, 1920, he seemed to have no 
difficulty in remembering and recog- 
nizing his friends, although he had been 
‘asleep’ since last November. He did 
not come out February 2 to look for 
his shadow, according to the funny 
ground-hog day tradition, but we 
“He did not care much for food at 
first, taking a small quantity of bread 
and only a little water. In a day or 
so he was ready for more. His weight 
was considerably reduced, although .he 
did not look thin, but his collar is much 
too large for him. We are hoping to 
get him a new ‘Easter suit’ since he 
seems to have shed most of his hair, 
but he is the same playful Chuckie with 
his gentle disposition. Even the dog 
seemed nearly as glad to see him as 
we were.” 
