Pond Life 
small globes. The fact is that life below 
water is much the same as that which 
goes on in the hedgerow, the fields, and 
the forest. One half of the animals are 
doing their best to eat up the other half, 
and a globe of pond animals is something 
like a cage into which are introduced 
tigers and deer, or cats and mice. 
The early part of the year is the best 
time to start, because then they are 
seen at greater advantage. You can 
watch the male stickleback gradually 
putting on his wedding-dress. In wild 
nature, you see, these things are some- 
what reversed ; it isn’t the bride which 
wears wedding finery, but the husband. 
I think he makes the nest too; and 
after the eggs are laid, he guards it most 
courageously, darting out after every- 
thing which comes near. And, as he is 
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