All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . pletethat guests at night, when the micewere out, would look toward thecanarys cage, saying, Is the birdsinging: ? when it would be sittingwith its head tucked under its wing-. Mice have countless they stay in the barns, there isalways the danger of being trapped; in the houses there are the cats; in theyards, the dogs; while out in the open fields the hawks and snakes andweasels are forever watching for them. In the winter-time numbers of micedie from cold, or for want of food, but in spite of all these troubles, they seemto thrive
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . pletethat guests at night, when the micewere out, would look toward thecanarys cage, saying, Is the birdsinging: ? when it would be sittingwith its head tucked under its wing-. Mice have countless they stay in the barns, there isalways the danger of being trapped; in the houses there are the cats; in theyards, the dogs; while out in the open fields the hawks and snakes andweasels are forever watching for them. In the winter-time numbers of micedie from cold, or for want of food, but in spite of all these troubles, they seemto thrive and prosper. There are many varieties of mice which boys make pets of; for instance,the white mice. But they become a great nuisance if they get out of boy once allowed a pair of white mice to escape, and in a short time thehouse was overrun with numbers of the little creatures. These mice kept onrapidly increasing, in spite of cats and traps, and even spread to the garden,where they were seen running over the rocks and MICE (Natural Size). THE LEMMING. The tiny Lemming is one of the most mysterious little creatures in theworld. The Norwegians and Laps believe that these animals come fromthe clouds, because they are only seen in periods of from four to fifteenyears, when they come in millions and sweep over the land like an invadingarmy. Nobody seems quite to know where they come from. The damagethey do is fearful, for they march in a straight line, allowing nothing to checktheir course. Should a man or beastbe unlucky enough to cross their path,they rush into the attack at make the land look as though aplague of locusts had visited it. Thesmall animals, such as the rats andmice, fly before the army. Althougha rat is more than a match for a singlelemming, the numbers of the latterare so great that the rat is left noalternative except flight. Even fire will hardly check thelemming. It has been proved thatcows and reindeer will not eat thegrass
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