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one has said that we should love this plant best of all because it has 

 given more pleasure than any other. The plant is sometimes called 

 crane's-bill. Find out from the plant why it was so named. The 

 seed pods will tell you. 



Land or box turtle. 



TURTLES. 



Since you are naturalists, you ought to learn something about 

 turtles. Do you know where they live ? What they eat ? Where 



they spend the winter ? How 

 they protect themselves from 

 their enemies ? How early 

 in the spring can we find 

 them ? Can you tell a land 

 turtle ? A mud turtle ? A 

 water turtle ? 



Land turtles are awkward 

 creatures. They are usually 

 good-natured, however. You see they do not have to protect them- 

 selves by bithig at everyone and everything. If an enemy come 

 near, the land turtle gets 

 inside his shell. It is 

 a very perfect armor. 

 These turtles are called 

 box turtles. Why? 

 What clumsy feet they 

 have ! They remind one of an elephant's. I^otice their claws. 

 AVhy do you think they need such large feet and claws? 



Young naturalists know some of the mud turtles best, — snapping 



turtles and painted turtles. Can 



a snapping turtle shut himself up 



in his shell so that he is completely 



covered ? Do not ask any one to 



The icater turtle. answer this cpiestion for you. Find 



out for yourself. There may be some reason why a snaj^ping turtle 



is not so good-natured as a box turtle. 



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Orie of tlie mud or snajwing turtles. 



