. St. Nicholas [serial]. A COLLAR AND A NECKTIE DISAPFEAREU. 76 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Nov.,. THE WATCH HAD BEEN DRAGGED BYITS LEATHER CHAIN. the robbers to flight, Init brought the sleepers totheir feet. The sentinel solemnly announced that he haddiscovered the thief and made them guess who orwhat it was; but after everything they couldthink of had been named, he told them he wassure it was the wood-rats, which proved to bethe case. The next morning the boys began their searchand found, not fifty feet down the side of thecanon, a great mass of sticks interwoven, and,strewn about
. St. Nicholas [serial]. A COLLAR AND A NECKTIE DISAPFEAREU. 76 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Nov.,. THE WATCH HAD BEEN DRAGGED BYITS LEATHER CHAIN. the robbers to flight, Init brought the sleepers totheir feet. The sentinel solemnly announced that he haddiscovered the thief and made them guess who orwhat it was; but after everything they couldthink of had been named, he told them he wassure it was the wood-rats, which proved to bethe case. The next morning the boys began their searchand found, not fifty feet down the side of thecanon, a great mass of sticks interwoven, and,strewn about on the ground, a variety of curious oljjects, among them the lost collar, while thenecktie was stuffed into one of the entrances ofthe nest. Further search revealed the watch, itswhite face gleaming in the sunlight, which hadbeen dragged by its leather chain and was notmuch the worse for it. What the wood-ratswanted with these articles cannot be surmised, asshoes, watches, and neckties are not generallyused by them. But the strangest freak was that connectedwith the top-boots, about which Ernest had s
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