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to lay their eggs. As they come up they are caught in nets and 



their eggs or " roe " salted and made into caviar. 



Cohansey Creek : a small river in New Jersey. 



Lupton's Meadows ; local name of meadows along Cohansey Creek. 



CHAPTER II 



TO THE TEACHER 



Read Kipling's story in " The Second Jungle Book " called " The 

 Spring Running." Both Jungle Books ought to be in your school 

 library. Spring is felt on the ocean as well as over the land; life is all 

 of one piece; the thrill we feel at the touch of spring is felt after his 

 manner and degree by bird and beast and by the fish of the sea. Go 

 back to the last paragraph of chapter I for the thought. Here I have 

 expanded that thought of the tides of life rising. See the picture of 

 the herring on their deep sea run on page 345 of the author's 

 " Wild Life Near Home." Let the chapter suggest to the pupils 

 the mysterious powers of the minds of the lower animals. 



FOR THE PUPIL 

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Mowgli: Do you know Mowgli of "The Jungle Book"? 



Chaucer: the "Father of English Poetry." This is one of the 



opening lines of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. 

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migrating birds : See " The Great Tidal Waves of Bird Life " by 



D. Lange, in the " Atlantic Monthly " for August, 1909. 

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The cold-blooded : said of those animals lower than the mammals 



and birds, that have not four-chambered hearts and the complete 



double blood-circulation. 



Weymouth Back River: of Weymouth, Massachusetts. 

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catfish : or horn-pout or bull-pout, see picture, page 12. 

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stickleback : The little male stickleback builds a nest, drives the 



female into it to lay her eggs, then takes charge of the eggs until 



the fry hatch out and go off for themselves, 



