. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . - or fifty circling together -^^v,-^. THE \vhirlk;i(; 307 in the smooth and sunny ba}s all along the is something new to me. They seem to be moreready than usual to dive to the bottom when night, of course, they dive to the bottom and burythemselves, and if in the morning they perceive no cur-tain of ice drawn over their sky, and the pleasant weath-er continues, they gladly rise again and resume theirgyrations. I think I never noticed them more numer-ous. What a funny
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . - or fifty circling together -^^v,-^. THE \vhirlk;i(; 307 in the smooth and sunny ba}s all along the is something new to me. They seem to be moreready than usual to dive to the bottom when night, of course, they dive to the bottom and burythemselves, and if in the morning they perceive no cur-tain of ice drawn over their sky, and the pleasant weath-er continues, they gladly rise again and resume theirgyrations. I think I never noticed them more numer-ous. What a funny way they have of going to bed !They do not take a light and go up-stairs ; they go be-low. Suddenly it is heels up and heads down, and theygo to their muddy bed, and let the unresting streamflow over them in their dreams. Sometimes they seem to have a little difificulty inmaking the plunge. Maybe they are too dry to slipunder. Suppose you were to trace the course of onefor a day, what kind of a figure would it make ? I seeone chasing a mote, and the wave the creature makesalways causes the mote to float away from it. I w
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