New ideas for American boys; the Jack of all trades (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 71
and they often turn up in the oddest of places. I found a big toad in the top of a tree which I had climbed after young crows. It was a common hop-toad, not a tree-frog. Silly Superstitions of Hoop-Snake Age. It is high time that the American boys, in the dawn of the twentieth century, should… … Chipmonk. White-footed Mouse. Short-tail Meadow-Rat. ancestors, and are a part of the witch belief of the old Salem folk. There are people living now who will tell you that they have seen a hoop-snake with his tail in his mouth, roll- ing down hill, and these people really believe what they say ;…
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