Show PAW B is chort TAILED SHREWS ive always boen to 60 glad sold said mr short balled shrew that my boica bame flos as so different from tile the names et other creatures it be nearly so BO to be named anything else as it Is to be known as a short tailed there Is something so unusual and attractive about the name dont you ou think so too teo 1 I agree with you iou but then of course I 1 ii would agree with you naturally as my name Is the same sard mrs mia short shrew were not very sociable as a rule but you ou and I 1 are pretty sociable at present mr short tailed shrew con untied lindved do you know I 1 wonder if people know how helpful we are to them asked sirs mrs short tailed shrew 1 I am sure I 1 dont know said mr short tailed shrew why do you ask ak well I 1 hope that they to do find and I 1 hope they will learn it more and more or rather that moro more and more people will learn tint that the little short shrew or mole shrew ns he 1 la sometimes known does everything he can to help people ue he eats insects and bugs which ore harmful and Is never anything but nice lit in his nations ait net lons ions lie he has a great deal of courage a and nd though ho he can hardly see at all lie he will fight bravely if lie he tins lias to even if he ann cnn cant t see the enemy who Is attacking him of course his sense of smell Is very ry keen and strong and he con rush this 17 others othera by streams way oy avoid and that by feeling and by smell lie ile can see light from dark but he much to boast of in the way of eyesight or eyes ees some of us are fond of living in the forests others by streams stream others again by fields were not in I 1 the e least fussy we burrow in the ground and have fine runways where we go from place to place our homes are arc beautiful with a number of rooms papered and carpeted by soft grass and leaves we eat more abre in a day than we weigh that Is if anyone weighed the amount of food we ate in a day they would find that chilt we were much smaller in size than the quantity of food we had eaten but it hurt us tor for we are so active always so BO busy we do not even rest and steep sleep in the winter the wity ny some creatures do that Is I 1 mean we do not go to sleep deep for the winter we have very keen sense of henring oh y ies e a we can hear very well but I 1 must say I 1 have no use ue for creata creatures res wb who eat all the time and who ate are lazy we must mast pat cut a lot in order to have the strength to do so much and ale we must do a lot in order to he be able to eat a lot I 1 I 1 dont like to hear of creatures who eat and eat and eat and who then feel too ton lazy to do db anything that to Is dreadful we can protect ourselves by our bravery and also by our musk glands which have a curious odor to them which the other animals do not liep we are thankful to say we can squeak and cry and we can become very tingry rut but were not dreadful little creatures at ell nil anil I 1 do wish people would hear fear that we ore are not Iller haps they will sold said mr short tailed shrew and perhaps the next time they see a little lark animal iiii walh h looks something like if a mole they will say any there Is a nice short tailed shrew we will III not harm him oh that would be pleasant indeed said mrs short tolled stilled shi shrew ew well I 1 believe we hove have talked enough I 1 have haie plenty to do und and then I 1 dont bother much about being sociable and talking my time away neither do V I 1 sold said mr me short tolled tailed shrew as he wiggled ills hl snout which was his way of saying a polite goodby good tood by to mrs mra short tailed shrew |