THE UNTAMABLE SHREW. 



them ; they say a shrew cannot cross a 

 church-path without dying instantly. What 

 constitutes a church-path is somebody having 

 once gone to church along it. The truth is, 

 dead shrews abound equally in the grass 

 and thickets ; but, of course, only those are 

 seen which happen to die in the open. 

 This is but one out of many hundred odd 

 superstitions about the shrew, which may 

 be regarded, indeed, as the most wizard-like 

 animal now left in England. 



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