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(63) and leap into their burrows. Their its home. A pea-rifle is almost useless in curiosity, however, is irrepressible, and shooting Prairie Dogs, a large bullet being scarcely have their feet vanished from needed to produce instantaneous death. sight when their heads are seen cau- The Prairie Dog has not the privilege tiously protruded from the borrow, and of possessing a home exclusively devoted their inquisitive brown eyes sparkle as to its own use, for the burrowing owl and they examine the cause of the disturbance. the terrible rattlesnake take forcible pos- A good marksman will take advantage session of the burrows, and devour the of this peculiarity, and, by aiming at the inmates, thus procuring board and lodg eye, will make sure of killing the animal ing at very easy rates. The rattlesnake on the spot. It is marvellously tenacious at all events does so, the bodies of young of life, and unless its head be almost Prairie Dogs having been found in its knocked to pieces, is sure to escape into stomach.