By A. Radcryffe Dugmore 
SPREADING HIS 
FEATHERS FOR 
A RAIN BATH 
Nature Portraits 
hairs on its slender tiower 
stem ? As I wondered, a little 
hand went up. The teacher 
granted a question. 
“ Pigweeds 
ain’t got any 
prickers,” said 
the boy. I saw 
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Dugmorc 
A STRETCH 
AFTER WAKING 
that the boy was a philos- 
replied the teacher promptly, 
something with which to 
Thereby I knew her 
made up her mind what to 
to hunt until she saw it; 
like other persons. People 
for existence as a fight. It 
between adults. Everything 
armour. A botanist in writing 
strange plant, noted the 
marked: “That , — 
use to the plant " ~ 
doubted. Per- 
prevent the ac- 
able insects.” 
Nothing 
thing; the only 
tion is true. I 
A LONG DRAWN-OUT 
SLIM BIRD 
(MOCKING-BIRD) 
opher. “ True enough,” 
“ but I am sure that it has 
protect itself.” 
point of view : She had 
see, and it was necessary only 
and in this respect she was 
seem to interpret the struggle 
is a sanguinary combat 
must protect itself with 
a description of a new and 
peculiar spines and then re- 
these are of some 
^ J can hardly be 
haps they serve to 
cess of undesir- 
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Dugmore 
is easier than to find an explanation for any- 
difficultv is to determine whether the explana- 
h a v e just 
graft 
read in an 
old book that the 
reason why a 
particular kind of 
failed to grow was because 
of the “ disappointment of 
the sap.” I laughed at the 
A FULL GROWN MOCKING-BIRD 
By A. Radciyflc Dugmore 
