. The fall of the year. Natural history. CHAPTER II ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF THE POX jITH only half a chance our smaller wild animals — the fox, the mink, the 'coon, the 'possum, the rabbit — would thrive and be happy forever on the very edges of the towns and cities. Instead o£ a hindrance, houses and farms, roads and railways are a help to the wild animals, affording them food and shelter as their natural conditions never could. So, at least, it seems; for here on Mullein Hill, hardly twenty miles from the heart of Boston, there are more wild animals than I know what to do with — just as if the
. The fall of the year. Natural history. CHAPTER II ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF THE POX jITH only half a chance our smaller wild animals — the fox, the mink, the 'coon, the 'possum, the rabbit — would thrive and be happy forever on the very edges of the towns and cities. Instead o£ a hindrance, houses and farms, roads and railways are a help to the wild animals, affording them food and shelter as their natural conditions never could. So, at least, it seems; for here on Mullein Hill, hardly twenty miles from the heart of Boston, there are more wild animals than I know what to do with — just as if the city of Boston were a big skunk farm or fox farm, from which the countryside all around (par- ticularly my countryside) were being continually restocked. But then, if I seem to have more foxes than a man of chickens needs to have, it is no wonder, liv- ing as I do on a main traveled road in Foxland, a road that begins off in the granite ledges this side of Boston, no one knows where, and, branching,. 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 Sharp, Dallas Lore, 1870-. Boston, New York [etc. ] Houghton Mifflin Company
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