IN ^MNTER TIME. 



There are some kinds of animals that hide away in the winter 

 that are not wholly asleep all the time. Their blood moves a little, 

 and once in a while they take a breath. If the weather is at all 

 mild they wake up enough to eat. 



'Now, isn't it curious that they know all this beforehand? Such 

 animals always lay up some- 

 rhiiig to eat, just by their 

 side, when they go into 

 their winter sleeping-places. 

 But those that do not wake 

 up never lay up any food, 

 for it would not be used if 

 they did. 



The little field-mouse lays 

 up nuts and grain. It eats 

 some when it is partly awake 

 on a warm day. 



The bat does not need to 

 do this, for the same warmth 

 that wakes him wakes all 

 the insects on which he feeds. 

 He catches some, and then eats. 

 When he is going to sleep again 

 he hangs himself up by his hind 

 claws. 



The woodchuck, a kind of mar- 

 mot, does not wake, yet he lays up 



dried grass near his hole. What is it for, do you 



think?. On purpose to have it ready the first mo- 



ment he wakes in the spring. Then he can eat and be strong 

 before he comes out of his hole. 



How many things are sleeping in the winter! Plants, too, a^ 

 well as animals. What a busy time they do have in waking up, 

 and how little we think about it! 



