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Show BOY'S WORK AND PLAY IN THE COUNTRY r - ' - --,.- -. ' ... - I t - . - - " ;. ? ' ",--.;-..' . . -. -, 1 " ,- ' -' '' ' -' :-.v - ' - L - - . y. - , r y . . . ..- i t T . ; ' . j V.f - v -y j -i, - . - - 1 " I f - J j ' V r yv? --K . - . JX' r i rt-. ! A Bo8 Pet. One of the most serious troubles that I had when a boy was the ecold-ings ecold-ings I received from farmers for digging dig-ging up their pastures and meadows In unearthing woodchucks. Rail fences and post piles had to suffer when old Shep chased a woodcuuck into his hole or under them. One of Lhe boys would usually keep an eye iut for the farmer, while the rest of as would throw posts and rails and Sid for Mr. Woodchuck. One summer nearly every boy in our neighborhood had a pet wood-chuck, wood-chuck, that was kept In a cage, and some ot them became very tame and would eat from our hands, clover, grass, apples and sweet corn, which are their favorite articles of food. Woodchucks usually burrow near orchards or-chards or pastures and are easy to trap. A No. 1 or No. 2 trap Is usually used and Is set in their holes and covered cov-ered with leaves and dirt. This is not necessary, however, as they are not suspicious animals and are easily caught in a trap. They are very much disliked by farmers on account of the danger of farm animals breaking a leg by stepping step-ping in their holes.' A full grown woodchuck will put up a game fight against a dog, and when in thin flesh in the spring It takes good dog to master one. W. M. K. |