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Title: Familiar wild animals
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lottridge, Silas Alpha, 1863-
Subjects: Animal behavior
Publisher: New York, H. Holt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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thing about the camp. These little fellowsshow a most surprising capacity for food, and when oncea hungry hord of them takes possession of the camp,well may the hunters and trappers look carefully aftertheir stock of provisions; for when the snow lies deepthrough the forest and the nearest store is forty milesaway, then is every ounce of flour and meal precious. This little rodent has sharp teeth which sometimeshe uses in a careless and inconsiderate manner; cord,fish line, hunting tackle of various kinds, and evensnares set for other animals are cut to pieces. Thetrap is often sprung and the bait wThich might havecaught a mink or marten has been devoured by thissmall midnight marauder. Under favorable circumstances the white-footedmouse stores up considerable quantities of beechnutsfor winter use. These seem to be his favorite nuts.Occasionally, when nuts are not attainable, seeds andgrains of various kinds are stored. The nuts areusually shucked when gathered, at least this has been
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White-footed Mouse The White-Footed Mouse 37 my observation, and placed in a hollow of a tree orlog. Woodsmen often find these stores of nuts.Several years ago I found a storehouse of some white-footed mice in a cavity of a maple tree. There werenearly three and a half quarts of as beautifully shuckedbeechnuts as one wrould wish to see. Only last yearI found in a stump another storehouse, containing aquart of beechnuts and an equal amount of buck-wheat. The white-footed mouse, like some of the squirrels,constructs an outside nest, in thick tangles of bushes,from four to ten feet above the ground. The favoritelocation seems to be about some gently inclined vine,such as the wild grape, which affords a natural andeasy highway from the ground to the home of the weearchitect. The nests are slightly globular in shape,and composed of dried leaves, grasses, moss, andfibrous barks of various kinds, the material beingclosely compacted and the general appearance verypleasing. The entrance is usu

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