Mr. Ruskin seems to hold that a house falls short of its highest usefulness until it has become a ruin; and who knows but woodchucks may be of the same opinion?
Woodchucks used to be cave-dwellers, but they are getting to live above ground, like the rest of us.
He found two woodchucks in the burrow, with no more sign of life about them than if they had been shot.
Beans and honey sweet clover the woodchucks cared for more than almost anything else in life.
We learned much about the ways of foxes and woodchucks and coons and skunks and squirrels by hunting them.
The woodchucks and the coons and foxes also use them.
Coons and woodchucks often have their dens in these ledges, and before the country was settled no doubt bears did also.
Sometimes the woodchucks feel the call of spring in their dens in the ground beneath them and dig their way out through the coarse, granulated snow, leaving muddy tracks where they go.
Curiosity iz the germ ov all enterprizes--men dig for woodchucks more for curiosity, than they do for woodchucks.
All the astronomy i ever got i larnt in spearing suckers bi moonlite, and mi geoligy culminated at the further end of a woodchucks hole, espeshily if i got the woodchuck.
If they were out in a field on the Sabbath day they would at once bekum lawless, and fall to digging out woodchucks or hunting for bumblebees' nests.
I've been chasing woodchucks and squirrels for him all the morning.
In the pasture there were woodchucks to be hunted; and even if he couldn't catch them it was fun to see those fat fellows tumble into their holes.
Woodchucks would sometimes feel the spring through this thick coverlid of snow and bore up through it to the sunlight.
Tame woodchucks are said by experienced boys to be a great success.
The only excuse for hunting woodchucks is that they sometimes get so numerous as to do real damage in the garden, either by their holes and the mounds of earth they throw out, or by eating more vegetables than can reasonably be spared.
Realize if you can in your walk, over how many sleepers you step all unknown; how many woodchucks in their burrows, and frogs in the mud under the ice; how many torpid snakes and dozing chipmunks.
Woodchucks will be up long before breakfast, to go shivering in the cold dawn of the year waiting for the table to be spread.
But if I don't trap the woodchucks they eat our clover and vegetables.
It's interesting to see and hear woodchucks in their own homes, and Mister Woodchuck has shown me how cruel it is for us to set traps for you.
The young woodchucks were of several sizes and kinds.
You know very well that woodchucks don't wear clothes, under ordinary circumstances," Mister Woodchuck replied.
But although the day was bright and sunshiny, and just the kind of day woodchucks like, the clover-eater had not yet walked out of his hole to get caught in the trap.
But woodchucks are not perfect, any more than men are, so you'll have to take us as you find us.
Some Woodchucks are quite gray, and occasionally there is one who is almost, or wholly black, just as there are black Gray Squirrels.
He always had supposed that the Woodchuckswere a family by themselves.
It is leaves in the hay-rig that we want, not woodchucks at the bottom of woodchuck holes.
A stranger would find it hard to believe that all of my forty-six woodchucks are gently snoring at the bottoms of these old uninteresting holes.
Might it not be that their destruction of woodchucks (for they eat woodchucks) and mice and muskrats quite balances their killing of poultry?
Here they shall grow as the weeds and flowers grow, and in the same fields with them; here they shall play as the young foxes and woodchucks play, and on the same bushy hillsides with them--summer and winter.
It is leaves in the hay-rig we want, not woodchucks at the bottom of woodchuck-holes.
The young woodchucks at this time of year are more often seen abroad, for the parents send them forth upon the world to earn their own living at a rather tender age.
The woodchucks asleep in their burrows, the snakes, torpid in their holes, are as safe from frost-bite as if they had migrated to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
I suspect them of standing immobile only at their will and of being capable of trooping up hill and over into some other pasture should they see fit, as readily as the woodchucks would, or any other four-footed denizens of the place.
The old dog, forgetting his stiffness, and remembering the fun he had had with woodchucks in his earlier days, started off at his highest speed, vainly hoping to catch this one before he could get to his hole.
I told the captain of number four how I had plugged woodchucks back home, though, and I guess that convinced him that I could shoot big guns.
I used to shoot woodchucks with a shotgun, sir," Sam Hickey informed the gun captain.
He will soon get to working afterwoodchucks and while they won't all tree, some of them will.
In nearly all places where there are 'coons, squirrels and woodchucks (groundhogs) may be found also.
He catches woodchucks and ptarmigan and feasts on big game that has met with accident or that has been left to waste by that wild game-hog, the mountain lion.
In summer they range the forests far below, but with the coming of autumn they climb the slopes to dig out fat woodchucks and to get the last of the season's berries, with which to put on final fat for hibernating.
Rabbits may nibble them, woodchucks devour, or insects overrun them.
I found two woodchucks in the burrow, with no more signs of life about them than if they had been shot and killed.
My birds are back, my turtles are out, my squirrels and woodchucks show themselves, my garden is ready to plough and plant.
In fact, I believe that most of your fiddling crabs and moralizing stumps and philosophizing woodchucks are simply the creatures of a disordered imagination.
Driving past, I say, you might actually think I had no woodchucks at all!
But woodchucks are not the only “things,” not the only crop that the farm yields, although it must certainly seem that there can be little room on these scant acres for anything more.
You must hunt for the holes; you must wait until the woodchucks come out.
Although quite vicious, and dangerous to handle in their wild state, Woodchucksmake very gentle and comical pets.
Woodchucks can run rapidly for eight or ten yards; then they have a habit of suddenly coming to a stop, assuming their favorite upright pose, and darting off again in another direction.
They are related to the woodchucks as well as to the hare, and they live wholly at or above timber-line, burrowing among the fallen and decomposing rocks which crown the summits of all the mountains.
They had all helped him chase woodchucks at one time or another, and he had great confidence in them, but that was nothing at all to their confidence in him.
The woodchucks must have burrowed out, and an old fox taken possession of their hole for a den.
One day, when he was out with his gun, he saw something moving near an old woodchuck hole; at least, there had been woodchucks there the year before.
Tud stools will do well on a wet earth; so will tuds; but woodchucks must hav a gravelly sile.
I told you the other day that one of them woodchucks could make more noise for its size than any beast I knew; but when I said that, I expect I must have forgot the coyote.
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