Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 100
BLOCK. WHITTLING.Movable ball, acorn, and leaf.(Both illustrations in this column by courtesy of Drfrom specimens made by inmates of Soldiers Home, M. W. Robinson,Noroton, Conn.) 1907.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 79 FEEDING THE TURTLES. The scientific name of the elephant-footed tor-toise… … rHE TURTLES. be of interest to the young folks to know thatthese giant tortoises live to be several hundredyears old. One we have in the Zoo, about aslarge as the one the little girl is standing on, isprobably 250 years old or nearly as old as theVirginia town, the three hundredth anniversaryof the…
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