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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 768

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by the hair-like, boringovipositor of the Thalessa that William HamiltonGibson calls the most wonderful drill in theworld. This is indeed most wonderful when theslender, hair-like appearance of the apparatus istaken into consideration. But the snail-like oys-ter-drill astonishes us more by the… … THE BEAVERS AT WORK CUTTING DOWN TREES AND BUILDING DAMS. 748 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [June, certain methods for building a home or for sup- are not at all uncommon in the simpler creatures. plying food by the four-footed animals, birds and The earthworm has one, and so hav^e most…

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