Gopher

“Gopher is a name given by the early French settlers in the United States to various animals which honeycomb the ground by burrowing in it. In Illiois and canada it was given to a gray burrowing squirrel, in Wisconsin to a striped squirrel, and in Missouri to a burrowing pouched rat. All these are mammals; but in Georgia the term is applied to a snake, and in Florida to a turtle."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Keywords

squirrel, gopher, striped squirrel, pouched rat, burrowing squirrel

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Source

Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)

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