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FISH OR FLESH 



JJRIXG the holidays the children 

 ■ipent most of their indoor hours 

 in Camp Saturday, and New 

 Year's night found them 'pre- 

 paring to make candy from 

 the kettle of molasses that 

 Olive was watching anxiously, 

 waiting for the exact moment 

 to take it off the fire, which 

 is so important when you are 

 going to "pull" molasses candy in the proper old- 

 fashioned way. 



" I am going to choose all these footless animals 

 that look like fishes, but are Mammals," said Nat, 

 selecting some pictures. "I wonder why ^lammals 

 look so very different from each, and if the Wise JMen 

 are sure that these Whales and things are not fishes." 



" Many animals, of even the same species, are adapted 

 to live in widely different places," said the Doctor. "If 

 you look at the lower branches of the animal tree, you 

 will see that of these animals without backbones, some 

 live on land and some in water. Then look higher 

 among those having Ijackbones : the fishes live in water ; 

 frogs live in water and toads on land ; alligators in 



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