Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 609
HUSH, EVERYBODY! I VE JUST MANAGED TO GET ONE OF THEM ASLEEP/ I have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth, or, atleast, than the effort one is able to make toward the truth.—Maurice Maeterlinck. Though … A CLUSTER OF LOBSTER EGGS. HOW THE LOBSTER GROWS. A lobster lays thousands of eggs, most ofwhich hatch, but few ever live to grow up.This is not the fault of the mother, for she car-ries them about with her for nearly a year, andwith admirable instinct guards them as shedoes her own life. When the…
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