Chapter III 
THE GOPHER: An Animal with Pockets 
Billy Buck Blair awoke in the family trailer, won' 
dering where they had stopped. He and Mary Vir¬ 
ginia had gone to bed early, and Father had driven 
on while they slept. 
Now Buck sat up in his bunk and peered out the 
window. The sun was just beginning its day. The 
car and trailer, Buck discovered, were parked not far 
from a stream—a perfect place for a camp. There 
was a cleared spot for a yard, room for a campfire, in 
fact everything they needed. But right in the middle 
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