#sidehillgouger

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The Sidehill Gouger #TheSidehillGouger #SidehillGouger Sidehill Gougers originate from North American folklore. They have one long leg and one short leg, so they walk easily on hillsides. If they reach flat land, they can only walk in circles.  Gougers are herbivores. But when a clockwise gouger meets a counter-clockwise gouger, they battle to the death. 

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SHE INTERFERED WITH SPORT

A woman member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was visiting a Wyoming ranch, a subscriber writes, and found it necessary to reform many things there. She fed the cats meat privately, which gave them a taste for birds and young chickens. She had the collie come into her cabin to sleep, which made him fat and lazy and inclined to neglect the sheep. She wanted the saddle horses put in the barn when it snowed, and they fought to get out, liking the snow and the air better.     “So some of the young folks tried to get back at her by telling her about the ‘side-hill goanthus,’ which has legs on one side longer than the other adapting him to his life on steep hills. They told her we had great sport in the fall driving them down onto level ground, where they could run only In a small circle, owing to the arrangement of their legs, and then all you had to do was to stand in the center of the circle and hit them with a club. She flew to pieces with scorn. ‘Oh, how manly, how sportsmanlike! What must you think of yourselves! Merely to stand still and kill the poor things with a great big club!’ We resigned.”—Outlook.

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Evening times-Republican. (Marshalltown, Iowa), 12 June 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.