THE DARK DAYS OF INSECT LIFE 







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OMETIMES by too 

 close and confining 

 study of things pertaining 

 - to the genus Homo, we per- 

 chance find ourselves com- 

 placently wondering if we 

 have not solved almost all the problems of 

 this little whirling sphere of water and earth. 

 Our minds turn to the ultra questions of 

 atoms and ions and rays and our eyes strain 

 restlessly upward toward our nearest planet 

 (^ neighbour, in half admission that we must 

 soon take up the study of Mars from sheer 

 lack of earthly conquest. 



If so minded, hie you to the nearest grove and, dig- 

 ging down through the mid-winter's snow, bring home a 



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