ÿþ<html> <head> <TITLE>Pg. 39, The Side-Hill Gouger .  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Some Easterners say  Side-hill Badger, some Californians insist that  Side-hill Winder is correct, there are some vigorous proponents of  Godaphro,  Prock, and  Side-hill Wowser, while a few technical parties claim that  Gyascutus is the one and only. The majority, of the pleadings are in favor of the  Gouger, so We ll stand on that.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Always a dweller in hilly county. He has to be, since his nigh legs are shorter than the off pair. There are six to eight pups in a litter, and once in a great while some of them arrive with the relationship reversed. After being weaned, these sports are rarely seen again by their orthodox-legged, brothers and sisters. Normal Gougers must obviously, travel around the hillside, and in making their daily rounds for food they wear the characteristic, partly gouged-out paths so familiar to woodsmen. These paths were once very common in New England, but to-day they are thought to be most frequently seen in the partly forested regions of the West. <BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am indebted to Mr. Bill Ericsson of North Haven, Maine, (and various other points) for the following account of how the Gouger population migrated from New England,  It Seems, said Bill,  that the Gouger population was getting too thick. There warn t enough food to go around and somebody just had to move out. A pair of these ambitious little varmints, one orthodox, one abnormal-legged, got together and decided to strike out for a new location. Of Course they could navigate on the hillsides and slopes all right; but they knew mighty well they d bog down, on the flats, so when they struck level going they just leaned against each other with the longer legs <font color="white">###################################</font> <BR> </div> <DIV STYLE="font-size : 9pt; font-family : Times New Roman"><center> [ 39 ]</center></div> </font></td></tr></table> </td> <!-- *** Ä% CELL 3 º% *** --> </table> </TD> <!-- *** º% CELL 4 *** --> </TD><TD WIDTH=100 valign="center"><center> <a href="p41.htm"><font size="7">º%</font></A> <BR> <a href="http://www.lumberwoods.com/index.htm" OnMouseOver="move_in('image2','images/lmbr2.png')" OnMouseOut="move_out('image2','images/lmbr1.png')"> <img src="images/lmbr1.png" border=0 hspace=0 alt="Move your mouse over here!" name="image2"> </a> </TD></TR> <center> </TD></TR> </table> <!-- *** Ä% ADVERTISEMENT º% *** --> <table align="center"> <td width=748 height=75 align="center" background="images/adbg.png"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1771542151092607"; /* lumberwoods */ google_ad_slot = "2227060330"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1771542151092607"; /* lumberwoodsbeta */ google_ad_slot = "3810790534"; google_ad_width = 234; google_ad_height = 60; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- *** Ä% CLOSE ADVERTISEMENT º% *** --> <font size=-1 color="gold"><BR> <I>Fearsome Critters</I>, Written by Henry H. 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