Show OUR LITTLE CRAY HELPER poorly EquIp equipped pod by nature bator e yet he does his work well weil myrta lockett avery A very under the above title tells in the june st nicholas of the work done by the humble earthworm earth worm she says we have a little gray helper who cannot hear or see or make noise he wears a little gray coat and he lives in tiny eaves caves which be burrows out tor for himself our tle tie gray helper has no teet feet so he crawls he works busily or r us all day in the ground under our feet coming out chiefly at night for his food then he does not take anything that any one wants but only fallen leaves and bits bit s of stuff that no one cares about and that are best out of the way although much less fortunate than we having neither legs nor teet feet nor hands nor eyes nor ears ean he has all that is necessary to the performance of the work he has to do and since our little gray helper has all he be needs and does his bis work and does it well we may think of him as aa being quite content and happy and since the work that he does for us is very necessary and important work and since he does it excellently well we need not regard him with less thon than respect he has a system of blood vessels a nervous system and yes a brain when you come to consider him under microscope and in relation to the work he has to do be is quite an interesting and exquisite lit of mecha mechanism mechanizing he uses his brain and has baa wisdom to know what to eat and a how to get it though he has neither eyes nor hands before taking anything into his cave he examines it carefully by means of his one sen sense ae touch and with his little upper lip which the scientists call this lip Is very sensitive he is prudent and thrifty always dragging into his little house enough to secure him against the coming day for blind and deaf as he is he knows it is not wi wise se to be out in the day time for the birds and their babies like him entirely to too toa a well he also knows that being of a chilly nature he will need to be wrapped up a bit when he goes to sleep in his cave so he makes his own little bed of leaves of grass and bits of leaves which he be has dragged in with the little lip that does so much he seems to like fresh air when he can get it so he rests with his head near the mouth of his cave and mother nature realizing that this might give robin redbreast an unfair advantage of him provided him with a head covering darker than the rest of his coat and very nearly the color of earth |