Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 185
ll the colors of the rainbow! PELLETS OF MUD. Armour, South Dakota.Dear St. Nicholas : Will you please tell me what are these little balls of mud which I send? They are A BLUE HERONS NESTING PLACE. A PLACE of rare interest to bird-lovers inMichigan is a great blue herons nesting placeten miles west… … very hard and I found them in the mud at the edge ofa small pond. I should like to know what they aremade of and what makes them. Your interested reader, Charles Crutchett. The pellets of mud are pellets of gumbo whichbakes very hard, as you know, in the sun. They aremade by the common crayfish…
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