13/17 All they care for is the hole to take shelter in, leaving the outside works to go to ruin as they may. Certain it is that, although we have seen them and the dogs rush into the same hole together, it is because we came suddenly upon them. The marmots have their own dwellings, and the owls theirs, which last are the ruined ones you have noticed." "But do not the owls eat the marmots ?" inquired Basil. "The great owls of the woods prey upon animals as large. |