" For the rest, the carefully-selected pack on the sled contained the marmot-skin, woollen blankets, a change of flannels apiece, a couple of sweaters, a Norfolk jacket, and several changes of foot-gear.

The Colonel suddenly put his head out from under the marmot-skin to say discontentedly, "What you sittin' up for?" "Oh ... for instance!"

Trousers are generally made from Siberian fawn skins and the skin of the marmot or the ground squirrel.

The outer garments are generally made of the marmot skin.

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They have often been classed with the marmot by prairie Travellers; but, to my own mind, partake more of the nature of the squirrel or rabbit.

They are, in fact, the marmot, and in size are little larger than squirrels, which animals they resemble in some degree.

Another animal which hibernates through the winter is the marmot, and I often think of them sound asleep under the snow as I pass along the slopes of some high valley.

It is more likely that they had made their own holes to shelter in rather than that these were marmot holes.

" "Thanks, Popof, I will take your advice, and sleep like a marmot.

Well, it finally ended in this way: in Ventose, 1796,which was the same time of year that our March is now,we were penned up in one corner of the marmot country: but at the end of the first campaign, lo and behold!

MARMOT, OTTE, petit animal qui reste endormi pendant l'hiver.

"You are not a sceptic, nor are you a blasé, nor a disciple of Voltaire; you are a marmot,[A] and a culpable marmot; a marmot with a conscience, not a naïve marmot.

"You are not a sceptic, nor are you a blasé, nor a disciple of Voltaire; you are a marmot,[A] and a culpable marmot; a marmot with a conscience, not a naïve marmot.

"You are not a sceptic, nor are you a blasé, nor a disciple of Voltaire; you are a marmot,[A] and a culpable marmot; a marmot with a conscience, not a naïve marmot.

" [Footnote A: A baibak, a sort of marmot or "prairie dog."]

Throughout all time the wretched marmot is making up its mind to work" "But, after all, what are you scolding about?" cried Lavretsky in his turn.

"Perhaps I am a marmot.

I suppose when next I hear from him, he will have disappeared into some marmot hole at the foot of a tree in a Siberian forest.

" "Give me the photograph, Monsieur Marmot," said a pale little man in blue spectacles, who had come in unobserved from a door behind us, while Müller was speaking.

"Thanks, Monsieur Marmot," he said, "I know all the particulars of this case.

The Government is also indebted to Monsieur Marmot" (here he inclined his head to the bald-headed Chef), "who has acted with his usual zeal and intelligence.

" Monsieur Marmot, murmuring profuse thanks, bowed and bowed again, and followed Monsieur le Préfet obsequiously to the door.

On the threshold, the great little man paused, turned, and said very quietly: "You understand, sergeant, this prisoner does not escape again;" and so vanished; leaving Monsieur Marmot still bowing in the doorway.

He dreams that there was presented to the Zoo first a marmot, then an emu, then a vulture, then a she-goat, then another emu; the presentations are made without end and the Zoo is crowded outthe keeper wakes up in horror wet with perspiration.