. Nature study and life. Nature study. 4IO NATURE STUDY AND LIFE multiply with such rapidity, and when this is accomplished there will be one less argument for keeping cats. Several other common animals may be studied as occa- sion offers, among them, woodchucks, muskrats, minks, otters, skunks, moles, shrews, and weasels. P'or the char- acter of the latter the description of given by Long in Wilderness Ways is admirable. To his graphic account. Fig. i66. Taming a Wood Turtle the writer may add that one morning, when a boy, he found sheep dead near an old straw stack in a field. Th
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 4IO NATURE STUDY AND LIFE multiply with such rapidity, and when this is accomplished there will be one less argument for keeping cats. Several other common animals may be studied as occa- sion offers, among them, woodchucks, muskrats, minks, otters, skunks, moles, shrews, and weasels. P'or the char- acter of the latter the description of given by Long in Wilderness Ways is admirable. To his graphic account. Fig. i66. Taming a Wood Turtle the writer may add that one morning, when a boy, he found sheep dead near an old straw stack in a field. The only marks of violence in each case were four little cuts behind the ear, where an artery had been severed. The straw stack was biu'ned during the day, and two old weasels, with a litter of half-grown young, were found and killed. Turtles. — These may be brought in by the pupils and acc_[uaintance made with a few of the commoner 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 Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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