They apprenticed their children to a badger and later joined the groundhogs and gophers to start a successful private school.
Moles and gophers burrow in the ground.
Apparently, we were moving to some rural town inhabited by two things: hills, and gophers, while the human population consisted of a little more than zero.
Got enough good snakes, he added, and you don't need to worry about gophers.
There was a den near the river, he said wistfully, and they'd migrate six miles up to a nice patch of open prairie full of gophers.
