Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 768
vers of nature. The beavers tree-cutting and dam-buildinghave been described and pictured so often as to betrite, but still they remain a constant astonish-ment. The size of the trees cut down and themanner in which they are used to hold back thewater to form a pond would do credit to our skil-ful… … THE OYSTER DRILL. These mollusks bore a small, round hole through the shells of oystersand then proceed to extract the succulent, fleshy animal from within. hardest wood into long channels, and innumerablehosts of leaf-miners tunnel out the soft portionbetween the two thin coverings of the leaf,…
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