Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 292
t for a great distance, thusshowing the course the birds have taken in theirflight to the south. And the Indians and hunterswould often make use of these lines of mistle-toe to point them to the north and south when they had no other compass. Thus, even thoughthe mistletoe is a parasite, it yet… … THE MISTLETOE GETS ITSNOURISHMENT FROM THE TREESON WHICH IT GROWS of green when their own leaves are withered andburied in the snows beneath. Another curious thing about the mistletoe isthat though it blossoms earlier in the year thanthe tree on which it grows, yet the little berriesdo not ripen…
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