The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 195
theyever get such a name? The name is nt so strange, was the answer,when you know how it came to be given. Whenthe town of Taunton was first settled, the landin what is now its east part was owned by an old 382 STRANGE FISH AND REPTILES Indian squaw named Betty, and was known asSquaw Bettys Land.… … You must be making fun of me, said Fred.I know that fish cannot climb stairs. And, be-sides, they dont need to. There are no stairwaysin our streams in New Hampshire, and there area great many fish in them. I have often caughtplenty of fish just above a high fall in one of thebrooks on my fathers…
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