THE WINTER REST. Ill 



ical conditions, had to content themselves with 

 hurrowing in the earth, or making themselves 

 warm nests of moss and liay, where they now lie 

 torj)id during the foodless season. As for the 

 insects, they were fain to leave their eggs only to 

 represent them in the December snows, or else to 

 struggle on somehow in the chrysalis, or even in 

 the winged condition, through the hard weather. 

 Thus it was, modern science tells us, that the 

 great winter sleep of universal nature in extreme 

 northern or southern climates first began to come 

 into existence. 



