4 
PREFACE 
the rabbits, there would soon be so many 
of them that Round-Top could not hold 
them all and they would have to swarm 
down on The Plain and, very soon, they 
would need still more room and they 
would eat up all the growing things! 
And this is true of the field-mice or the 
bears, the porcupines or the woodchucks. 
Now,—do you see how wise Mother Na¬ 
ture is? 
.When you stop and realize that all na¬ 
ture is just a vast workshop, where even 
the stones and the rocks are working every 
day and where all the animals and the 
plants and the trees and rivers and the 
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ice and the rains and the snows are work¬ 
ing—working—working—and that this 
work never stops, day or night, then you 
will understand why there must be many, 
many laws to keep this mighty workroom 
in good, running order. 
And I can make no kinder wish for you„ 
