“Now let’s go away for an hour, and I’m sure we’ll 
have him,” Uncle Ely explained. “He will come to 
fill that opening to his hole, and be caught.” 
Uncle Ely was right. 
When they came back to the trap just before noon, 
a bundle of fur was in it. At first there appeared to 
be no eyes, ears or legs. But when removed from the 
trap, the bundle of fur took form. 
The eyes of a gopher are very small and hard to 
find in the fur. Ears are very tiny, too. The tail is 
short but stubby, and the short little legs have long 
claws, especially the front legs. 
“He is almost blind because he lives mostly under¬ 
ground and doesn’t have any light by which to see,” 
explained Uncle Ely. “He can hear better than his 
ears indicate. He sees and hears with his tail.” 
