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The Yellow Perch 
I F YOU are a boy, you will probably go 
fishing. When you throw a line, with 
a hook baited with a worm on the end 
of it, and bring up some hungry yellow 
perch, you will think that you have caught 
a real fish. That will be true. There are 
many kinds of perch in fresh water, and 
this yellow one is very beautiful. From 
above he looks olive-green in color, but his 
sides are a golden yellow, with six or more dark bands running down 
from the back, and he is white underneath. He is about fifteen inches long. 
The Turtle 
T HIS turtle carries his house on his 
back. It is his back. His house 
has a good strong roof. When an 
enemy comes along, the turtle just draws 
his head, four legs, and tail, into his house, 
and the enemy has no way of getting at 
him, for he cannot bite through those walls 
and roof. These turtles live near rivers 
and swamps, some living in the water and 
others on land. This kind lives on land, and has a large head and a 
hooked beak. He snaps at whatever disturbs him, and so is called a “snap¬ 
ping turtle.” 
The Reindeer 
S EE this noble-looking animal! What a kingly, stately look his large 
antlers give him! He is master of the snowy wastes where he lives. 
In the summer he feeds on the grasses of the plains; in the autumn 
he goes to the seacoast and feeds upon the 
seaweed; while in the winter he lives on the 
lichens of the mountain sides. For ages he 
has served the people of the North as a 
horse. His flesh is good food, and his skin 
a warm covering. The reindeer’s hoofs are 
round and short and spreading, so that they 
can travel fast over the snow. Their coats 
are grayish brown and very warm. 
