. St. Nicholas [serial]. hey see. We scientists hear with our ears,see with our eyes, feel with our fingers, and understandwith our brains. Just so, just so,I reply ; and you are aworthy but a pretty stupidset. Little Hyla in February, in June, and inDecember cries peep, peep, peep! to you. Buthis cry to me in February is spring, spring,spring! And in December?—it depends. ForI cannot see Avith my eyes alone, nor hear withmy ears nor feel with my fingers only. To-dayI saw and heard and felt the world all gray andhushed and dreary, and little Hyla, speakingout of the death and silence, called c
. St. Nicholas [serial]. hey see. We scientists hear with our ears,see with our eyes, feel with our fingers, and understandwith our brains. Just so, just so,I reply ; and you are aworthy but a pretty stupidset. Little Hyla in February, in June, and inDecember cries peep, peep, peep! to you. Buthis cry to me in February is spring, spring,spring! And in December?—it depends. ForI cannot see Avith my eyes alone, nor hear withmy ears nor feel with my fingers only. To-dayI saw and heard and felt the world all gray andhushed and dreary, and little Hyla, speakingout of the death and silence, called cheer,cheer, cheer! Dallas Lore Sharp. 460 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. BECAUSE WEw WANT TO KNOW a a a a &aa M8 Q Q turtle eggs. Nottawa, St. Nicholas : I live near the shore of a lakeand have some questions to ask. I send you, in a littlebox, two eggs which I found on the bottom of the lakein about two feet of water. I found three of themnot far apart, but there was no nest. Can you telle what they. ind one fourth nches through n the largest It swam ts head out of the water. I cannot describe it very fully, but perhaps you could tell me what it was and some of its habits. How does a snake swim in water ? I like the Nature and Science department very much,and always enjoy reading about animals, flowers, andinsects. Your friend and reader, Donna J. Todd. In answer to this letter Professor F. A. Lucassays : It is difficult to tell from the eggs them-selves what species of turtle laid them, but it isstill more difficult to decide the matter from aphotograph. The eggs shown, however, arevery likely those of the western painted terra-pin, a near relative of our abundant paintedturtle, Chrysemys picta. Of course the eggsbeing in the water was an accident. The water-snake was probably a small Trop-idoi/otits, or Natrix, as I believe the genus nowstands. Snakes swim just as they crawl, by throw-ing the body into a series of curves, and snakesthat pass most of their ti
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