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poultry yard pretty effectually hide all his virtues. 

 I yield him the favor of seeing his good qualities 

 first, which is one of the methods of fellowship 

 that really conserves the good, both in the seen 

 and the one who sees. 



With what ease and dispatch our insects and 

 some of the smaller animals get into winter quar- 

 ters. With many of them there seems to be no 

 preparation any further than simply to fold their 

 hands where the winter stroke finds them. Just 

 here on the window siU are two or three flies that 

 I am quite sure have put on their winter suit and 

 put it off several times already. The newly kin- 

 dled fire warms up their nest, life is astir, and to 

 all intents they are flies again, ready for any es- 

 capade of fly life. The fire dies down, the cold 

 asserts itself, and my small friends are as inert 

 and lifeless to all appearance as the piece of wood 

 upon which they lie. So with the bats and the 

 woodchuoks in the main, though the larger ani- 

 mals always show some signs of life. It seems 

 like a very handy way of doing things, and no 

 doubt there are many beings in other walks of life 

 that would be glad to adopt some such handy 

 scheme. Eip Van Winkle had some experience 



