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December, i g 2 j 
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Lovers 
Little Nature Library—4 Volumes, 1,104 Pages, 
2,891 Subjects, Profusely Illustrated in colors— 
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H undreds of the most interesting and absorbing stories 
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Little Nature Library. Experts—not cold scientists merely, 
but warm nature lovers in every fibre of their beings—give 
freely of their lore. 
One of them begins with the marvelous lite of the trees. You 
come to understand how a tree breathes; how it digests its food; 
how it hibernates like certain animals, still alive, during the cold 
weather; how it provides in the fall for 
the spring to come. You learn to recog¬ 
nize the hundreds of species by leaf, by 
bark, by shape or stature. With this 
added knowledge the woods will present 
a thousand points of interest you never 
saw before. 
The next one tells of the birds. Fas¬ 
cinating novelettes, delicious little 
comedies, absorbing tragedies are spread 
before you in the life stories of over 500 
different bird species. You learn their 
songs and the meaning of the notes. 
You understand their wonderful guid¬ 
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life. You are prepared to recognize 
them on sight and to greet every one as 
a jolly, clever little friend. 
The wild flowers, more than a thou¬ 
sand of them, present endless avenues of unflagging interest. 
All the knowledge of a skilled botanist, combined with the in¬ 
sight for romance of a born story-teller, is offered you lavishly in 
the flower book. 
And butterflies! Who has not marveled at their gorgeous 
beauty and wondered at their mysterious life-processes.^ The 
growth and development of those fairy creatures is fully and 
scientifically explained and illustrated, and you are introduced 
Do You Know 
Why certain wild flowers smell 
sweeter in the evening than in the 
morning? 
How the heavy seeds of the wild 
blackberry are carried to seem¬ 
ingly inaccessible places? 
What are the common and scientific 
names of all the numerous species 
of butterflies? 
Why a tree will die if only the bark 
is circled with a deep cut? 
When the buds actually form on 
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is usually thought. 
Where the butterflies may be found 
in winter? 
Which bird never hatches its own 
eggs or cares for its young? 
to and made thoroughly acquainted with 
their numerous species and genera. 
The Little Nature Library 
The Little Nature Library consists of 
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more than 1,100 pages—with 144 full- 
page illustrations in natural colors and 
48 more in photographic black and 
white. Nearly 2,900 different subjects 
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authoritative, written by recognized 
experts, yet put in easy, non-technica! 
style that will delight you. The titles 
are: “Birds,” by Neltje Blanchan; 
“Trees,” by Julia Ellen Rogers; “Wild 
Flowers,” by Neltje Blanchan, and 
“Butterflies,” by Clarence Weed. 
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