. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . eep it stocked in the wintermonths if he would depend alone upon the dealers inaquarium supplies. A few lizards, polliwogs, and gold- SHARP EYES fish are almost their only stock in trade at this season,with perhaps a fine show of green moss in bunches,picked in the woods, which looks pretty under water. But I want some plants, snails, water-beetles, and craw-fish, I said to such a dealer recently. Oh, you cantget anything of that kind now, you know, he all dead or froze up. Well have plenty
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . eep it stocked in the wintermonths if he would depend alone upon the dealers inaquarium supplies. A few lizards, polliwogs, and gold- SHARP EYES fish are almost their only stock in trade at this season,with perhaps a fine show of green moss in bunches,picked in the woods, which looks pretty under water. But I want some plants, snails, water-beetles, and craw-fish, I said to such a dealer recently. Oh, you cantget anything of that kind now, you know, he all dead or froze up. Well have plenty ofem in the spring. Nevertheless, the film of ice over thepond or stream need be no barrier tothe winter naturalist. The mud at theborders of the bank holds a lively har-vest, and does not seem tocare a snap for the good scoop with astrong net will sometimesbring up a veritable summerhaul of specimens—fish,frogs, water-beetles, lizards,water-boatmen, dragon larvae, andoccasionally a dainty case of thecaddis, resembling one of the groupwhich I have here picked from r V i.
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