Animals That Set Traps 



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A NIMALS must work for their living or 

 /\ they won't get it any more than would 

 * *- their human superiors. Now and then 

 one may find itself a sort of millionaire so 

 favorably situated that it gets all its needs 

 without any special exertion. But this is rare 

 at any rate among the higher sort which lead 

 an active life. 



The great and varied army of roving ani- 

 mals, little and big, whether inhabiting the 

 waters or the air, or wandering about the land, 

 must " hustle " night and day or they will get 

 left in the constant race and struggle for daily 

 bread. They vary immensely in their means 

 and abilities, and hence must pursue vastly dif- 

 ferent methods, constantly devise new schemes, 

 to outwit their would-be victims and keep even 

 with their competitors. In this way a good 

 many have learned how to make ambushes, set 

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