The Wit of the Wild 



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rigidity of mind which has retained habits so 

 long beyond their usefulness that now they are 

 detrimental. So far is the practice of " feign- 

 ing death " from being, as is popularly thought, 

 a wonderful provision for safety, that to its 

 habit of " playing 'possum " the race may at- 

 tribute, more than to any other one thing, its 

 present restricted range in the world, and its 

 steady decadence in numbers. 



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