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SHARP EYES 



your way to school this morning, and look at the feet 

 of the grouse. Nature has not asked this bird to walk 

 the snows for its living without providing it with proper 

 means oflocomotion. With its 



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slender summer foot it would 

 sink in the soft drift at every 

 step, while now it walks with 

 perfect ease on the lightest 

 snow, for each foot is provided 

 with a snow-shoe. 



Every autumn the shoe begins 

 to grow, a stiff fringe of horny 

 bristles spreading around the 

 sole and on both sides of 

 each toe, until, by the time 



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