WILDWOOD WAYS 



nimble hunter. He is but a worm that 

 crawls, so speed may not save him. His 

 skin is tender and he has no weapon of 

 defense save his brain which one would 

 hardly think adequate in so humble a 

 creature. Yet if you will sit on the brink 

 and watch what goes on in the cool 

 depths you will see how cleverly and in 

 what a variety of ways he and his kin- 

 dred, for there are several varieties, have 

 become skilled in self-defense. The little 

 fellow has, like most grubs, the power 

 to spin fine silk. This would count for 

 little though he spun a whole cocoon, for 

 the trout would swallow him, silken over- 

 coat and all. But he does better than 

 that. He collects bits of log from the 

 bottom and winds these in his silken warp 

 till he has knotted himself firmly within 

 a log house. There is no incentive to a 

 trout to eat twigs from the bottom, so the 

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