will have the usual hole with its mound 
of earth for a lookout above the level of 
the surrounding meadow, from which 
they slip out of sight like a phantom 
on the slightest suspicion of danger. 
HE hunter taking a prone position 
commanding the hole where Mr. 
’Chuck was seen to vanish, may lay 
there half an hour or longer watching 
through the telescope to see a nose Gr an |. 
eye appear, each blade of grass and 
every bit of sand shows plainly, but 
Mr. ’Chuck does not appear. The 
chances are that this is an old settler 
who has met disaster at some time and 
not so far back as to forget it. So he 
has rigged up a scheme to beat the 
next two-legged party who comes along 
by simply running a tunnel some dozen 
or more feet from the home ranch and 
comes up to the surface through a very 
small hole, big enough to put his head 
through possibly three inches. Not a 
particle of dirt is seen about this hole 
(we call them dropper holes). If he 
gets suspicious of some distant object 
he simply slides down his main en- 
trance, runs to the dropper hole and sits 
there by the hour with only his nose 
and little pig eyes showing among the 
grass or clover. 
With a tenderfoot this works fine, 
| but our old veteran has an all-seeing 
‘eye and is up to just such tricks, so 
/Mr. ’Chuck loses the game and the tip 
of his nose and tail as well. 

OODCHUCKS have a variety of 
habits. Some are early birds and 
will only come out at sunrise or very 
early in the day. Some shy old fellows 
‘take the noon hour, a time when the 
farm help are at dinner. Then there 
‘are sunset or evening ’chucks, but the 
,accepted choice of the Gang was for 
‘the late afternoon. 
‘Some of our territory among the 
mountain farms had plenty of timber, 
though no one reported any tree-climb- 
ing ’chucks, but several of us witnessed 
a terrific battle between two old he- 
‘chucks. It was a savage combat, so 
we interfered at long range. They 
‘ware pretty well chewed up and a wood- 
chuck has too tough a hide for anything 
but whip-lashes or shoe strings. Most 
of the woodchucks living in or near tim- 
ber are usually darker colored, some 
Were nearly black. The meadow dwel- 
lers are mostly reddish gray. 
_ The Gang were hunters of other game 
in season and most all had various 
tifles. One man has nine high-power 
rifles and every one has a telescope 
‘mounted on it, both American and for- 
2ign, but woodchucks came along at a 
time when nothing else was legal game, 
and we have had large farm owners beg 




















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