StNicholas [serial] . g into his own doorway. This nightwalker had literally bumped his head on a fallenleaf. To my surprise a countless number of earth-worms had made this patter-patter, so suggestiveof autumn rain. Now these worms play an im-portant part in Mother Natures garden, contin-ually stirring up and loosening the soil throughwhich they make their way in search for food,while their enemies, the moles, aid still more inloosening up the ground. Note that the boy THE GREAT ANT-EATER As soon as I learned that there was a great ant-eater (or ant-bear) out at the Washington zoo,I made hast
StNicholas [serial] . g into his own doorway. This nightwalker had literally bumped his head on a fallenleaf. To my surprise a countless number of earth-worms had made this patter-patter, so suggestiveof autumn rain. Now these worms play an im-portant part in Mother Natures garden, contin-ually stirring up and loosening the soil throughwhich they make their way in search for food,while their enemies, the moles, aid still more inloosening up the ground. Note that the boy THE GREAT ANT-EATER As soon as I learned that there was a great ant-eater (or ant-bear) out at the Washington zoo,I made haste to get a drawing of him, and thesuccess of my efforts accompanies this the afternoon, a while before his feeding-time, was the only chance I could have at him, asthen he walks up and down anxious to have hiswaiter appear with his dinner. At other timeshe remains rolled up in a nest of hay, in one cor-ner of the cage, with his enormous tail spread outlike a blanket over his entire body. \or<L.
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