Identifier: fourfootedamericwrig (find matches)
Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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he Saturday before Christmas,having borrowed Mammy Buns thimble, which hewore on his thumb. Its my turn again to choose, said Dodo, going tothe portfolio ; but wont you please help me, UncleRoy ? I want to find one of those animals with thebetween horns, that are hollow like a cows and yet falloff like a Deers ! The Antelope, you mean. Turn a little furtherover — there is a head of a Prongbuck1 (as the malesare called), showing the horns, and here is a picturewith the doe and fawn being chased across the plain bya Coyote, while the Prairie Dogs watch nervously fromthe doors of their holes, wondering when this littlebrother of the Wolf will turn his attention to them.This picture is quite a drama in itself, and we only needadd one more character to have a group of plainsmenabout whom books of stories could be written. Stop,there is the picture that I wish, — the Badger. If you think a moment about the animals of ourstories, you will remember that they have almost all1 See page 300.
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Drama of the Plains.Prairie Dogs. Antelope. Coyote. OX THE PLAINS 257 lived in or about woods or thickets of some nature, andthat they have been chiefly lovers of darkness — nighthunters—the Buffalo and Jack Rabbit being the greatexceptions. Now we have come to some fourfootswho, like those two, also prefer the open plains.Naming them in order of size they are the Antelope orPronghorn, the Coyote, the Badger, and the PrairieDog, who even to-day carry on the drama of the plainsin spite of the onward march of two-footed settlers. Three of these four animals live and feed in theopen light of day, the Badger alone being a nightprowler. Two, the Badger and the Prairie Dog, sleepthe winter sleep, having homes deep under the ground.Two, the Pronghorn and Coyote, are always watchingand awake, always alert, living wherever their food isto be found. This drama is not a comedy, it is a tragicgrand chain, hands-all-round. The Pronghorn is a cud-chewer, therefore a vege-table eater and no cann

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