. The bird. Birds. AS THE LABOUKER OF MAN. 215 tenible destroyers of plant-life, carry off the superfluous. Thev there a necessity. They ravage among â^^fe"⢠â --'.-*-.â¢'-â¢*^. the prodigious J-^' ^" â ,/^ abundance of spon- taneous plants, of lost seeds, of the fruits which Nature scatters over the wastes. Here, in the narrow field watered by the sweat of man, they gar- ner in his place, devour his labour and its harvest ; they attack even his hfe. Do not say, " Winter is on my side ; it will check the ; Winter does but slay the enemies which would perish of themselv
. The bird. Birds. AS THE LABOUKER OF MAN. 215 tenible destroyers of plant-life, carry off the superfluous. Thev there a necessity. They ravage among â^^fe"⢠â --'.-*-.â¢'-â¢*^. the prodigious J-^' ^" â ,/^ abundance of spon- taneous plants, of lost seeds, of the fruits which Nature scatters over the wastes. Here, in the narrow field watered by the sweat of man, they gar- ner in his place, devour his labour and its harvest ; they attack even his hfe. Do not say, " Winter is on my side ; it will check the ; Winter does but slay the enemies which would perish of themselves. It kills especially the ephemera, whose existence was alrea ;y measured by that of the flower, or the leaf with which it was bound up. But, before dying, the prescient atom assures the safety of its posterity; it finds for it an asylum, conceals and carefully deposits its future, the germ of its reproduction. As eggs, as larvae, or in their own shapes, living, mature, armed, these invisible creatures sleep in the bosom of the earth, awaiting their opportunity. Is she im- movable, this earth ? In the meadows I see her undulateâthe black miner, the mole, continues her labours. At a higher elevation, in the dry gi-ounds, stretch the subten-anean gTanaries, where the philosophical rat, on a good pile of corn, passes the season in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874; Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904. London ; New York : T. Nelson
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