Burrowing owl

CHAPTER XXV.

THE BURROWING OWL The little burrowing owls were among the first folk you met on your way to the Pacific coast.

After crossing the Mississippi River, you spent half your daytime watching the little fellows and their comrades, the prairie dogs.

Not that these two animals really love each other or live in the same neighborhood for the sake of each other's company.

The burrowing owls take up with the prairie dogs and the ground squirrels on account of the nice underground passages the latter make.

True, the owls are able to make roadways in the earth for themselves, in a pinch, but they are lazy by nature and much prefer taking advantage of another person's labor.

The burrowing owl has other names than the one so familiar in the books.

He is the Johnny Owl, the Billy Owl, the Cuckoo Owl, the Sentinel Owl, the How-Do-You-Do Owl, and whatever else you have a mind to call him.