Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — Light on Natural History. [ARTICLE]

Light on Natural History.

Tommy Tucker was showing his aunt from the country through Lincoln Park. “This,” he said, “is the prairie dog village. You see them standing up before their holes with their forepaws folded? They’re praying. They always do that. That is why we call ’em prairie-dogs.”—Chicago Tribune. ,