She helped the boys snare Gophers, on the way to school, and played house with the girls on the shady side of the school-house, and once, while the teacher was absent at noon, Rose proposed that a fire be built to heat the tea for the dolls.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
The sound echoed across the land, sending Gophers, rabbits, and other animals scurrying for their dens and holes in the ground.
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney
Fer that crank's comin' right along, an', I 'lows, if I was you I'd as lief lie here and rot, an' feed the Gophers wi' my carcass as run up agin him.
"In the Brooding Wild"
Ridgwell Cullum