A Clever Little Boy
The gopher only remains a few seconds in his hole, when he feels an irresistible desire to come out again and look about him. Taking advantage of a knowledge of this habit of theirs, a little boy, eight years old, who was lost for ten days in the prairies of Assiniboia, 150 iniles north of the Canadian Pacific railroad line, iu 1886, was able to save his life. The boy wore lace boots, with leather laces, and used to spread a noose made with a bootlace over a hole when he had seen a gopher go in; he would then lie down and wait for him to come out again. When the gopher, aceording to his wont, put his head out to see the world, the little boy pulled the staring, caught him by the neck and ate liiui. As there was plenty of rain water in the holes about, the boy got along very well in this way
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Ann Arbor Argus
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