. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. If this scaly gentleman is attacked, he scorns to run away, butrolls himself into a ball at once, when his coat of mail protects himfrom all enemies. To perform this curious operation, he throwshimself on his back, bends his head over towards his stomach,arches up his back, and wraps his strong tail tightly around thewhole. This gentleman lives in the woods of India and Africa, andhis name, Pengolin, means to roll into a ball. For a house, he digsout a burrow seven or eight feet deep. The baby Pengolins haveno scales at first, but have
. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. If this scaly gentleman is attacked, he scorns to run away, butrolls himself into a ball at once, when his coat of mail protects himfrom all enemies. To perform this curious operation, he throwshimself on his back, bends his head over towards his stomach,arches up his back, and wraps his strong tail tightly around thewhole. This gentleman lives in the woods of India and Africa, andhis name, Pengolin, means to roll into a ball. For a house, he digsout a burrow seven or eight feet deep. The baby Pengolins haveno scales at first, but have a skin like leather, marked however justVke their mother. The whole family are gentle and easily trained,when they become affectionate pets. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 33 if^.. THE LITTLE HAYMAKER. This is a droll looking fellow. Look at him—short legs withlong toes and claws, fine bushy tail, upper lip split up in the middle,and no ears, to speak of. Hes a bright, sharp little fellow, and lives in the mountains,where he makes a snug little house for himself. Now you canguess what those long claws are for. When he makes his home, hefirst digs a passage sloping down, then turns a sharp corner andslopes the passage up. At the end of the long hall he makes hishome. Nice and quiet it is, too, and here is the nursery, and herethe babies live, and grow up. When the weather gets cold, the little Marmot—did I tell youhis name ?—begins to prepare for winter. He dont lay in a stockof nuts and acorns like the squirrels, nor does he stow away a pileof bark, like the beaver ; he just moves his family down the moun-tain into warmer regions, digs out a new house deeper than theother, and then—makes hay for his 34 LITTLE FOLKS People who have studied the
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