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How much wood could a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck had it's soul eaten by Cthulhu?
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Carlitos had scarcely thrown his verbal bomb when Tom Hotchkiss slid out of his seat and dived into the thicket beside the narrow road like a wood-chuck into its hole.
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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The life of every dog in the settlement, if bigger than a wood-chuck, hung by a thread, which might, it seemed, at any moment turn into a halter.
Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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The next day Black Bruin again visited the trap, but his suspicions were still keen and as he had killed a wood-chuck that morning, his appetite was not ravenous, so he again left the bait untasted.
Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901
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A moment's examination proved to them that this was nothing less than a sea-otter cub, a small animal not much larger than a wood-chuck, but with a long, pointed tail, and covered with short, soft fur.
The Young Alaskans Emerson Hough 1890
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But it is like enough that he trapped a wood-chuck now and then, or caught a white-fish with the rest.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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He could imitate their peculiar "whistle" quite cleverly, and having observed that when one wood-chuck whistles, all the others within hearing are apt to exhibit some little curiosity as to what is going on, he turned the circumstance to account.
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The wood-chuck, although so dreadfully wounded and with its eyes destroyed by the powder, had yet, after several days, mustered sufficient strength to come out and feed.
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I am keenly aware that to write anything in defense of the wood-chuck will prove unpopular with farmers and farmers 'boys.
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I think he felt conscience-smitten, and I never knew him to attempt to shoot a wood-chuck in that way afterwards.
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