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Fig. 222. Little Doumies can climb ivell too. 



ings, the field-lawn was gaily decked with moon-faced 

 daisies and golden buttercups. On one side was a large 

 swamp, its spagnum moss-covered floor studded here and 

 there with the rosette-like pitcher plants with deep red 

 flowers nodding on slender stalks above the half-filled leaf 

 pitchers that lure and destroy many insects. The humming 

 of the bees, as they bumbled about the spotted, orange cor- 

 nucopias of the jewel weed, suspended from under the 

 leaves of the rank-growing plants that fringed the swamp, 

 made an accompaniment to the sweet songs of Wood 

 Thrushes. 



