. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. A NIGHTLY PROWLEE. £55 realize the fact that Nature has somehow or other made a botch of it; its expression is as grotesque as that which characterizes Mr. Tenniel's Jabberwock in Alice in Wonderland. No wonder then, when we surprise him in the wood shed, his uncanny appear- ance and sluggish movements give us a sort of men- tal shock. He is like some old, suspicious-looking tramp who ^-s£S$M!i'!<^'' is always seen at dusk haunt- ing the outskirts of the farm buildings and scaring people more by his lo
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. A NIGHTLY PROWLEE. £55 realize the fact that Nature has somehow or other made a botch of it; its expression is as grotesque as that which characterizes Mr. Tenniel's Jabberwock in Alice in Wonderland. No wonder then, when we surprise him in the wood shed, his uncanny appear- ance and sluggish movements give us a sort of men- tal shock. He is like some old, suspicious-looking tramp who ^-s£S$M!i'!<^'' is always seen at dusk haunt- ing the outskirts of the farm buildings and scaring people more by his looks than his deeds. "When he appears in the daytime he is usually " Nature made a botch lodged high up on the limb of a tree; but, as a rule, he remains within his den somewhere beneath a neighboring rocky ledge during the day, and issues forth only at night, when he may be heard gnawing away at the foundations of the old wood shed. He is a nocturnal prowler of the worst kind, doing his deeds of darkness—never anything worse than the gnawing of wood—^in the immediate vicinity of the farmhouse. But he sometimes has a bad habit of girdling and thus ruining the forest trees, especially the spruce. He has a most inordinate appetite for salt, and will devour, in time, the whole floor of the wash shed. 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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