A WOODCHUCK AND A GREBE 



O fact comes to 

 mind which is 

 not more im- 

 pressed upon us by 

 the valuable aid of 

 comparisons, and Na- 

 ture is ever offering 

 antitheses. At this 

 season we are generally 

 given a brief glimpse 

 - the last for the year of two 

 creatures, one a mammal, the other 

 a bird, which are as unlike in their 

 activities as any two living creatures 

 could well be. 



What a type of lazy contentment is 

 the woodchuck, as throughout the hot 



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