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Title: Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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would bea poor landmark by night; but it meets the newnecessity in a splendid way. Out of its bristlingtopmost serried spears it sends far up into thepurple night a wondrous candelabrum on atowering pole, with flowers of shining white,that must loom up afar, like some new constel-lation in the sky. And so the Perodipuss safety-port is lighthoused day and night. I began carefully to open up the main galleryto the home of my moonlight dancer, and hadnot gone very far when I came on somethingthat made me jump; nothing less than a fero-cious-looking reptile—the Huajalofe, that theMexicans hold in superstitious and mortal dread,the Amblystoma of scientists. It was only asmall one, but it gave me the creeps to see himlashing his venomous-looking tail and oozingall over with a poisonous slime. If he couldaffect me so much, what might he be like to thegentle little Perodipus, whose home he seemedtrying to raid? But for some reason that I didnot understand then, the reptile was boring his244
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A Ferocious-looking Reptile. The Kangaroo Rat nose into a solid bank of sand that was the endof the gallery he had entered by. Since wewere all playing fairy-tale, I, the Giant, didnot hesitate to put the Dragon where he couldharm the fairies no longer. After hours of patient digging and measuringI got a map of the underground world wherethe Perodipus passes the daytime. The central chamber could be nearly reachedby any of the entrances, but one not knowingthe secret would have passed by and comeout into the air again at another door. Nomatter how often he went in, he never wouldhave found the nest or any of the real treasureof the home, for the road to the nest was pluggedwith earth each time the owner left it. And this is exactly what happened to theHuajalote; for he seemed to have an idea thatthere was a secret passage if he only could find it,and no doubt thought it was somewhere throughthe bank of earth he was boring into, thoughreally he was not anywhere near to the spot. I thin

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