Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland

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e hill that is eating my clover," sa

a trap for it?" ask

will," answ

went to the barn and got a steel trap, and car

ining-room and put it in order. But when the work was done, and she had all the rest of the afternoon to herself, she decided

bed over the garden fence and ran across the corn-field and thr

trap set just in front of the hole. If the woodchuck stepped on it, when he came out, it would grab his leg and hold him fast; and there was a cha

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the kind of day woodchucks like, the clover-eater had n

e little animal to come out. Her eyes could see right into the hole, which seemed to slant upward into the hill instead of downw

inkle drowsy. She didn't intend to go to sleep, because then she might miss the woodchuck; but there was no harm in closing her eyes just one littl

ght seem, the hole was growing bigger every minute! She watched it with much surprise, and then looked at the trap, which remained the same size it had always been. And when she turned her eyes upon the hole once more it

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