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ing will begin to appear, and we shall be no more afraid. The all of 

 this is beyond a child, as it is beyond us; but the habit of looking 

 honestly and fearlessly at things must be part of a child's education, 

 as later on it must be the very sum of it. 



Great tact and fine feeling must be exercised if you happen to 

 have among the scholars one of the handicapped one lacking any 

 part, as the muskrat lacked lest the application be taken personally. 

 But let the lesson be driven home : the need every boy and girl has 

 for a strong, f ull-membered body, even for every one of his teeth, 

 if he is to live at his physical best. 



FOR THE PUPIL 

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incisor teeth : the four long front teeth of the rodents, rats, 



mice, beavers, etc. These incisor teeth, are heavily enameled with 



a sharp cutting edge and keep growing continuously. 

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voles: meadow mice. 

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chimney swallows : more properly swifts ; as these birds do not 



belong to the swallow family at all. 



vermin : The swifts are generally infested with vermin. 

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clapper rails : or marsh-hens (Rallus crepitans). 

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"Listening the doors an' winnocks rattle" : lines from Burns's "A 



Winter Night." 



CHAPTER IX 



TO THE TEACHER 



Make this chapter, as far as you can, the one in the volume for 

 most intensive study. Show the pupils how the study of animal life is 

 connected with geology, tell them of the record of life in the fossils of 

 the rocks, the kinds of strange beasts that once inhabited the earth. 

 Show them again how the study of animals in their anatomy is not 

 the study of one say of man, but how man and all the mammals, 

 the reptiles, the birds, the fishes, the insects, on and on back to the 



