Show ate cling to early ideas naturalists Natura lists are now telling us that the opossum does not play possum but is merely paralyzed with fear for the time being articles are published every day in our and bhaga rines which go to prove that owls can see equally as well by day as by night it is still an undecided question whether balses charm their prey or not in the western backwoods these old stories are detill believed in the ignorant classes cling with fondness to them and will not leam anything different and down in our own hearts do we not cling to them more or less do we not hate to give them ap and is it not with a little regret that we are forced to acknowledge that the loreu pine does not shoot his quills that the bird of paradise really has feet and legs and that conr national bird the whit headed eagle is far from the noble bird we once thought him to be forest and stream |