Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-20 | Page 13 | This Curious World

I I- I THIS TW CURIOUS WORLD 1 BECAUSE r SAPP 0 A 0 1 e CAROLINA RAIL ONCE NC WA WAff T t 7 To NTo A WINTER CM CAME E. E 7 V I y a y r. r 4 J I I V J JACS k MAT s f RO ERf JAI oN CIS ot To Pole aA 11 r rj I I ACS ARs MADS C of A MATeRIAL I N 5 use IN W NATURE ris SoNt NOR FLESH MEMBRANE l v S 2 G tall ar nu HtA tune INC n The sora or Carolina rail disappears disappears disappears pears so mysteriously when cold weather comes that time old naturalIsts naturalists natural natural- believed they turned into frogs and spent the winter months in the water Swallows were thought to bury themselves in the mud and become beI become be be- I come torpid th through though ough the cold weather A As an experiment John Hunter the English anatomist shut several swallows swallows lows in a room room and placed tubs of mud at their disposal Of course the birds died of starvation As late as the nineteenth century hibernation of birds was still believed in my many persons I Next How far tar away is our closest star