Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 615
donot taper at one end. The taste is said to bestrong and not very pleasant. The motherturtle lays only a small number, and buriesthem in the earth, where they are hatched bythe heat of the sun. Thoreau says that the turtle in digging inthe sand for its nest uses its shell as a spade,tilting now…
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