EXERCISE 130 



The rain is said to fall alike on the just and the unjust ; but one with an umbrella may save her 

 bonnet. A passenger boat sinks and throws the wise and the foolish into the water ; if near shore, a 

 few may swim and save themselves. 



Give five examples of situations in which some plants or animals are successful, while others fail, 

 and point out what it is that makes the difference. 



Give five examples of situations in which plants or animals are destroyed without discrimination. 



Questions. 1. In the survivals of the first set of examples, do the plants or the animals struggle 

 with one another or with outside conditions ? 



2. What qualities would help plants or animals to escape or to survive a forest fire ? a severe 

 windstorm ? a famine ? a drought ? 



[142] 



