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watched them carefully, I have never seen 

 them cross to each other's fishing grounds. 



Once, up on the Big Toledi, I saw a curi- 

 ous bit of their education. I was paddling 

 across the lake when I saw a shelbird lead 

 her brood into a little bay, where I knew the 

 water was shallow; and immediately they 

 began dipping, though very awkwardly. 

 They were evidently taking their first les- 

 sons in diving. The next afternoon I was 

 near the same place. I had done fishing and 

 had pushed the canoe into some tall grass 

 out of sight, and was sitting there just doing 

 nothing. 



A musquash came by, and rubbed his nose 

 against the canoe, and nibbled a lily root 

 before he noticed me. A shoal of minnows 

 were playing among the grasses near by. A 

 dragon-fly stood on his head against a reed 

 — a most difficult feat, I should think. He 

 was trying some contortion that I could not 

 make out, when a deer stepped down the 

 bank to drink and never saw me. Doing 

 nothing pays one under such. circumstances, 

 if only by the glimpses it gives of animal 



