. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE BEAVER, LIKE OUR MORE COMMON MUSKRAT, LIVES IN A DOME-SHAPED HOME. The beaver feeds on bark, twigs, and roots. Our artist has pictured his dome-shaped house, and the tunnel leading to it from belowthe surface of the water, as it would appear if one half were cut off to let us see the interior. As we would really see it in nature itwould be merely a dome, as is shown by another beaver-hut in the distance, just in front of the row of evergreens. Vol. XXXI.—46-47. 362 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Feb. Some she puts to bed and to sleep in the longwinter; others
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE BEAVER, LIKE OUR MORE COMMON MUSKRAT, LIVES IN A DOME-SHAPED HOME. The beaver feeds on bark, twigs, and roots. Our artist has pictured his dome-shaped house, and the tunnel leading to it from belowthe surface of the water, as it would appear if one half were cut off to let us see the interior. As we would really see it in nature itwould be merely a dome, as is shown by another beaver-hut in the distance, just in front of the row of evergreens. Vol. XXXI.—46-47. 362 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Feb. Some she puts to bed and to sleep in the longwinter; others are wide awake and as full ofthe enjoyment of life as in a bright day ofspring or of summer. There is enjoyment inall seasons. It is merely a change of form. The rabbits seem to be even more lively inwinter than in summer. If we could watchthem playing all sorts of frolicsome games in. THE GRAY SQUIRREL. In the coldest days he remains in his cozy nest of leaves in thetree-tops or in a hollow tree. In the warmest days he is out playingand seeking food. the snow, we would regard them as far frombeing in a winter sleep. But they do sleep—not the long sleep of hibernation, but just askittens sleep ; except that the bed of the rabbitsis down underground. To this cozy nest theygo through a long tunnel-like entrance. Inthe nest, after hours of frolicking or seekingfor food, they are safe and sound from thewinters fiercest biting wind or driving nt you like to have a peep into a rab- bits nest, as we did into the bears? Our ar-tist has imagined such a peep as it would beif we could pull off all the earth on one side ofthe burrow and of the tunnel leading to it,without disturbing the cozy occupants in theirnest made of leaves and grass, and lined withfur pulled from the mothers breast for this lastlittle family. Then, too, the hardy beaver, in his thickulster,
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