Show t p 0 IX IN I PRAIRIE DOG TOWN TOW By Dr Thornton W. W Burgess D Wo We 0 all work for tor the common good As everybody always should Yap Yap Yap the Prairie Dog Digger er the Badger sat with a a. tar faraway look in his eyes Peter Peer P er knew without being told that n n his Imagination Digger er was wa seeing his old home In the Far West cst I Peter wished that he could see Ice what Digger was seeing Then Digger began to talk again and ami andin in a way y Peter e did see what Dig Dig- Digger Digger e ger was w seeing s A Prairie Dog town is a lively lIv ly I place said Digger DIt ger Yap Yap Is social Yes sir Yap Yol Yap is verY Vi-ry r social He lie and hH hll relatives end and friends do a n lot of ot visiting back and forth But Dut with all their love lovo of ot visiting they the never forget t that danger daner is likely to appear at any moment So always they have o some watchman on duty duty I suppose you mean said Mid Peter that there is 15 always 01 wars some sonic someone someone one sitting up and looking this way wa and that way for danger Digger nodded Just It lt said he And when one of or those thoM Prairie Dogs is l sitting up on one of ot those mounds it is n hard hud work for tor any anyone one to get anywhere near without being seen seln Goodness knows knos Ive I've tried it enough times If II there had been only one watch watch- watchman watchman watchman man I would have succeeded sometimes but always alwa's there were were many watchmen scattered all I through the town and one or or another of ot them was sure to see s e me What happened then 7 asked Peter Digger grinned I went vent with with- without without without out my dinner said sal he or my breakfast or my supper which which- whichever ever e e er it happened to to tobe be bc The one who saw me would give ghe the alarm and each one of ot the tha other watch watch- watchmen watchmen watchmen men would take it up in turn and Yap Yap and all his hi friends who were visiting would scamper for tor their homes homs A moment later they would all pop their heads out ant and then such a scolding and yapping you OU never have heard It used r f fABY ABY G Ho and ami Ills his hl relatives CS do n lot of or visiting back bacle and forth to take lake smart hunters to get a Prairie Dog dinner excepting in inthe Inthe inthe the case of or Blackfoot the Ferret All he had to d dd J was to make sure of ot a home which was being lived ll In in and go right In Some of the Coyote family were occasion occasion- occasionally occasionally ally all successful but It took two of them to do It I never had any anyone an anyone one to work with me Peter p r had pricked C d up his i ears at the mention tI of the t Coyotes y How no he asked did the Coyotes Cootes work it Digger e the e Badger cr pretended e lf crI not no to hear e When I said that only on Blackfoot the Ferret erret o got his meals easily I forgot the Rattlesnake said he Of at course never had much trouble In getting a Prairie Dog meal m tl whenever he ho felt like it He has plenty of ot patience Besides he doesn't eat cat as often otten as some cf the rest of us But how did the tho Coyotes Cootes work together persisted Peter Again Digger appeared appealed not to hear A lot of oC people seem scent to think that the Burrowing Owl who lives in Prairie Dog town lown depends on young young Prairie Prairie Dogs for tor his food tood I suppose ho docs does get set ono one occasionally but for tor the mot most part he lives es on grasshoppers and crickets with some mice and ground squirrels said Digger As Asa a matter of ot fact the Prairie Dogs Do s sare are not much afraid of ot him Those Owls sometimes give the th alarm Arc Are there any Owls around here Peter which live lIvo In lit holes in the tho ground 7 Peter shook his head Ive Ivo never heard of ot any said he But Buttell Buttell tell teil me Mr lIr Badger about how those Coyotes work a together Please do Oh did you jou ou want ant to know I about that asked Digger pre pre- pretend pretend tend to lo be much surprised Copyright 1925 by T. T W. W Bur Dur- I gess I The next story stor Two Clevert Hunters I |