Gopher

It is small and yellowish, fleshy, corpulent, fat, squat; tailed; long-clawed, with curved claws; provided with front teeth, with bent, curved front teeth; with ears like droplets—round ears. It is edible, good-tasting, savory; it is greasy, fat. It is blinded by light. It is a maker of earth ridges, of small earth hills. Its home is underground; it is born underground. Never does it come on the earth´s surface; it always lives underground. When it comes out on the earth´s surface, it no longer recognizes its hole; its house is lost. It digs; it makes earth ridges. Its food is of all kinds. It eats roots—tree roots, maguey roots, herb roots. It eats ears of maize, beans, green ears of maize. It buries all the rubbish, the dried maize stalks, the green maize stalks, the bean leaves; it gnaws all the roots; it takes all underground. I dig out a gopher.