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HERMIT AND TKOUBADOUE 



A June Stoky for Junior Naturalists 



N far Thibet exists a class of 

 Buddhist monks who are 

 hermits and who dwell in 

 caves. I was told about 

 these strange people by a 

 senior naturalist, who has 

 spent his life going around 

 the world and finding the 

 countries upon it as easily as you junior naturalists 

 find the same countries on the globe in the schoolroom. 

 A real natm-alist is never contented with maps of places 

 and pictures of things, but always desires to see the 

 places and things themselves. 



The senior naturalist told me that he found Thibet 

 a dreary land inhabited by queer people ; and the 

 hermit monks were the queerest of all. Each one 

 dwelt in his solitary cave, ate very little, and worked 

 not at all, but spent his time in thought. Could we 



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