BOOK OF NA TURAL HISTOR Y. 37 
THE REINDEER. 
A long way off in the north 
is a country called Lapland, 
a cold, dreary country, where 
there is no spring nor autumn, 
but only a long winter and a 
short summer. For months 
together the ground is white 
with snow, so that you would 
think that the people must all 
starve. But God takes care of 
His creatures as well in dreary 
Lapland as in happy England. 
There are great numbers of 
reindeer there, which are as 
useful to the Laplanders as 
