The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 94
ousanimals upon which these hawks feed, frogs arecaptured about as often as any others, and asthey were easier for me to kill than birds orsquirrels, for reasons which all bright boys and SOME CURIOUS INSECTS AND THEIR HABITS 289 girls will easily guess, I every day searched forthis form of food.… … WATER-STRIDER5 They may often be found on the water among lilies or otheraquatic plants. From at first merely glancing at these tinyanimals, I finally came to feel a kind of friend-ship for them. Soon I was looking for certainbugs which I believed I could distinguish fromothers of the same kind,…
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