A DAY IN THE DEEP WOODS. 



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have pursued our way, for they sometimes travel by 

 thousands. A vejy old French writer gives the only 



i^- account 



that we 



can find 



of these 



crabs ; and 



- were it not 



that I had seen 



them on the 



march, there are 



some things he 



says the truth of 



which I should be 



inclined to doubt. 



They ; 



live not 



only in a kind 



of orderly and 



quiet society in their ^ N 7* RMY 



retreats in the mountains, but regularly once a year 



march down to the seaside in a body, some millions 



at a time. They choose the months of April and May 



to begin their expeditions, and then sally out from the 



of Crabs. 



