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Page 27
... creature and came sniffing toward it full of curiosity . The duck quickly concluded he had got into the wrong place , and turned his face southward again . Through the fence he went into a plowed field . Presently another stone fence ...
... creature and came sniffing toward it full of curiosity . The duck quickly concluded he had got into the wrong place , and turned his face southward again . Through the fence he went into a plowed field . Presently another stone fence ...
Page 34
... creatures hope to deceive the shrikes and owls and hawks and boys . It is not easy to find a nest that looks just like everything about it . A VOYAGE AT DUSK FROM Lapland to Napland the way is not long , And the anchor we lift to a ...
... creatures hope to deceive the shrikes and owls and hawks and boys . It is not easy to find a nest that looks just like everything about it . A VOYAGE AT DUSK FROM Lapland to Napland the way is not long , And the anchor we lift to a ...
Page 48
... creatures with his ferocious , sickle - shaped jaws , that are hollow from end to end . But there are good beetles and bad beetles . While some of them do much harm in the farmers ' grainfields , vegetable gardens and orchards , there ...
... creatures with his ferocious , sickle - shaped jaws , that are hollow from end to end . But there are good beetles and bad beetles . While some of them do much harm in the farmers ' grainfields , vegetable gardens and orchards , there ...
Page 74
... creatures naked and helpless ; but little by little , the ragged feathers of the old suit drop out and new ones grow in to take their places . When the family is ready , it usually joins a number of neighbors , and some night the start ...
... creatures naked and helpless ; but little by little , the ragged feathers of the old suit drop out and new ones grow in to take their places . When the family is ready , it usually joins a number of neighbors , and some night the start ...
Page 103
... creatures rocking in the cradles of the ripples , or clinging to the delicate branches of the sea mosses . I said you could see no sign of the great water train from above ; that was not quite true , for many of the icebergs are tall ...
... creatures rocking in the cradles of the ripples , or clinging to the delicate branches of the sea mosses . I said you could see no sign of the great water train from above ; that was not quite true , for many of the icebergs are tall ...
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