1092 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



popotamus and crocodile. And every little bump and line has 

 a meaning — is evidence and record of the old old fight. There 

 are indeed wonderful histories written in these small teeth and 



Fig. 250— Skull of Cooper Shrew (5. personalus). (Eight limes natural size.) 



skulls. Not in greater degree, perhaps, than in every tissue 

 and fibre, but these are more lasting and preservable, and 

 though the clumsy hand may destroy them by violence, it 

 cannot tamper with them as records; there they are in 

 their superlative delicacy and meaning for those who can 

 read them. 



