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Show The Seal's Marvelous Instinct. Tho instinct of tho seal Is tuuneious It will leave its young on tho Ice lu tho morning nnd, going down through u hole, remain nwny nil day swim-, swim-, mtiig In search of food. Returning lu tho evening, It will locate Its offspring' In tho same "patch" among hundreds of thousands of other baby seals notwithstanding not-withstanding thnt tho Ice may have wheeled or drifted fifty or sixty miles , during tho day from wind nnd tldo nnd notwithstanding thnt tho patch may extend thirty or forty miles from ' ono end to tho other. Whether this instinct ls of the class that enables , tho bird without nny mark or chart In n forest with millions of trees nllko to . And Its way back with ease nnd precision preci-sion to Its liest I do not know, but It ' Is ono of thoso wonders In nature I beforo which human knowlcdgo Is brought to a full stop. Sir Edwnrd Morris In WIdo World Magazine. |
