TH Gophering By BILL ADAMS HE sugar's in the muscat grape, the flush is on the nectarine. This afternoon I staked my chrysanthemums, and while so doing was watched by a horned toad, who, upreared on his hind legs, rested his fore feet on the nectarine tree. He is a relic of ages bygone, and set me to thinking of the brontosaurus (whom he somewhat resembles), of evolution, and of the mysteries of God. There are two of his kind living on the back of my lots. One is of a pale sandy color, a sleepy-seeming little fellow who closes his eyes when I pick him up and makes no comment. This one is of a darker brown. When I lift him, he opens his jaws in anger. But if I put a fly on his lip he swallows it eagerly; though, as yet, he refuses to make friends. While he leaned on the tree, almost indiscernible against its similarly colored trunk, a squash-bug started to ascend his back. But the backward-pointing spikes of the toad, which safeguard him from becoming the prey of a snake, proved an almost insurmountable obstacle, and the bug toppled over and fell to the ground three times. When he finally conquered a passage over the toad to the tree-trunk, the toad paid no heed whatever, except to close his left eye while the insect passed over it. These little reptile fellows enjoy the hottest days. I would like to know the history of their race. The reason for their protective spikes is plain. But how came they so? A while ago I had a visit from a gopher. If the damage done by gophers in one year in California could be set down, what a sum it would be! I have known one to nibble the bark from around three mature orange trees in one night-fatal, of course, to the trees. One may save a tree by root grafting; by lifting a root, bringing it back to the tree, slicing it smooth, inserting it beneath the bark above the injury, and there tacking it down. The root thus forms a bridge up which sap may flow, to keep the tree alive until the wounds heal. But the tree will be too weak to resist a cold winter or a drought. Better to dig it out and let its fellows benefit by the extra space. This gopher appeared half-way across my lots one morning; or, rather, the mound of earth thrown out of his burrow in the night did so. I hoped that he had not eaten the roots of my two-year-old vines along the fence while on his way toward my flowers from the bare lots beyond. I bought a trap, and set it for him, and next morning found a shred of his fur therein; so I knew that further trapping would be vain. I bought ten cents' worth of gas balls, burned them in his burrow that evening, and went to bed in peace. One gas ball is supposed to be enough. Three would certainly destroy him. But when morning came again I saw that he had thrown up a new mound, nearer to my flowers. "You small son of a gun, I'll fix you!" I said, and, having bought a dozen gas balls, gave him the benefit of the lot. Then I went away for three days. When I came home, the missis said, "Your gopher's back." I went to the garden, to find that he had been having a fine time in my larkspur. Digging showed me that he must have blocked his burrow while I was setting the gas balls in place. It was solidly plugged a couple of feet back from where I had set them, and he had made a new runway around their residue. I went to town and bought poison. "I'll fix you this time," said I. What with traps, gas balls, and poison, I had now spent $1.50. My missis said, "You mustn't swear so." Next morning I found the poisoned bait that I had set so carefully scornfully smothered, the old runway abandoned for a new one. More of my larkspur was gone down his burrow. "You little son of a sea cook, I'll show you who's boss!" I said, and went to digging him out. His burrow was about eighteen inches below the surface, and I followed it across the forty feet to my fence and out to the bare lots beyond. Digging was hard there, so I gave him. up for the day, and for three days thereafter kept him out by digging him back each day. On the fourth day I said, "Now that you're good and hungry, I'll get you." I set a trap in the dry earth beyond my fence and baited it with fresh larkspur-more flowers sacrificed. Next morning I had him. He was caught by the loose skin of his jowl, and uninjured. I turned him loose on the surface to see what he would do. He rose on his haunches to threaten me, then started to hurriedly dig a new burrow. In ten minutes he was out of sight, and there was a large mound of back-pushed earth at my feet. I dug him out. Could I kill him in cold blood? This business of making a living against heavy odds and monstrous enemies is no joke for man or gopher. 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