MR. AND MRS. TUMBLE-BUG 



know by instinct why those 

 powerful front feet were given 



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to him, and he is quickly 

 working his way to the 

 surface, and in a day or 

 so is seen in the barn- 

 yard rolling his ball as 

 skilfully as his mother 

 had done before him. 



Such is the method 

 always employed by the 

 tumble - bug as I have 

 seen him. And yet I 

 have read in many nat- 

 ural histories, and have 

 heard careful observers 

 claim, that the hole is 

 dug first and the ball 

 rolled in. Perhaps they 

 vary their plan, but I 

 doubt it. Here is a mat- 

 ter for some of our boys and girls to look into. 



