Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 370
l. The nut insidethe shell proved a poor one, and the seedling,finding something to its taste, sent down itsroots through the openings in the thin shell,until it obtained safe anchorage in the leafysoil surrounding the nut. The shell clung tothe worthless fruit and seemed to hold suffi-cient… … RATTLESNAKE- CROWING ON A PIGNUT. 268 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Jan.
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