Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 719
e of the best thingsabout our modern world is that we have madeliterature cheap enough to be within reach ofalmost everybody. But we want to keep our reali-zation of its worth, and not to hold it lightly be-cause it is easy to obtain. Think sometimes, whenyou read, of all the trouble and toil a… … Vole : Any one of the many species of short-tailed field-mice. All are rodents, with cutting teeth similar in designto those of the squirrel, rat, and rabbit. Rodent is fromrodo, to gnaw. (Moles cannot gnaw.) The voles makeholes in the ground, especially in autumn and winter.They also make tunnels…
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