perches upon it first, while his
followers sit round waiting until he is finished. He claims the
eyes as his portion, as a rule. As soon as he has satisfied his
hunger he flies away, leaving his followers to have their share.
The aasvogel builds his nest of sticks on the top of some
inaccessible krautz (precipice). The eggs are white, I believe,
spotted with brown. I would like to correspond with Ladies of the
Round Table in different parts of the world.

ISMA FINCHAM.
ROYDON, QUEENSTOWN, CAPE COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA.

Do Your Rabbits Ever Drink?

Mr. Chase says rabbits drink. I think there are two sides to that
question. I know a boy who has a dozen rabbits and not one ever
drinks. I have two and neither ever drink. Another friend had two
that he kept seven years. They drank milk, and, at rare times,
water. I believe that rabbits can be trained either way. What is
the experience of others?

VICTOR R. GAGE.
VINELAND.

A Florida Gopher.

A Florida gopher is very different from those we read about as
living out West. In shape and size he is nearly like a common
fresh-water turtle, with this difference; he lives on land. The
gopher has a very hard shell covering his entire body except the
head and feet. His front feet are nearly like a turtle's, with
four or five claws, but very hard. They must of necessity be hard,
for this animal burrows very deep in this hard, clay ground. His
hind feet are round, with a flat bottom, four to five claws on
each, evidently made for pushing when walking or burrowing. They
look like a miniature elephant's foot.

His head is also very much like a turtle's. When alarmed he draws
his head and feet into his shell and remains quiet. He is a very
peaceful animal. I have never known one to bite anybody nor
anything else. The gopher lives in the ground, burrowing a
molelike passage several hundred feet long. There is no use trying
to dig for one. It would take a week of the hardest kind of work
to reach the bottom of his tunnel.

He comes out every day about noon for his meals. He eats grass,
weeds, clover, etc., for his regular meals; but when he finds a
farm with pease, beans, and other vegetables, unless he is
discovered in time he will do a great deal of damage, for he eats
such things vor