Show MARY 6 M B SHORT TAILED SHREWS 4 ashor r ive always been so glad said mr bhart shrew that my name wei was so different from the names af rf other creatures it be nearly so interesting I 1 to be named anything else a a it Is to 0 o be known as a short tailed shrew there Is something so unusual and attractive about the name i dont you think so BO too teo 1 I agree with you but then of com course se I 1 would mould agree with you son naturally as my name Is the same sard mrs airs short tailed shrew were not very tery sociable as a rule but you and I 1 are pretty sociable at present mr short tailed shrew con do you know I 1 wonder it if people know how helpful we are to them asked mrs short tolled tailed shrew 1 1 I I arn sure I 1 dont know said mr r short tailed shrew why do you well I 1 lope hope that they do and I 1 hope they will learn it more and more or rather that more and more people will ill learn that the little short tailed threw shrew or mole shrew as he be Is sometimes known does everything he can to help people lie ile eats insects and bugs which n bich are harmful tad and la is never anything but dica alc in IB his alc accio actio actions H he hc has a great deal ot courage and he can hardly see cee at all he be will fight bravely if be has to even it if he cant vee eee the tLe enemy who to 1 attacking td eilf of course hla his sense ense of smell la Is very keen tad and strong and he be can rush till othra by streams stream cyb way and that by feeling and by smell lt r lie tan can tee see light from dark but he b 1 5 much to boata ot of in the way may of or eyes some sense of us ui are food fond of hi log in the forests others fillers by str streams earns others again by fields were not in the llie least fuw we burrow in the ground and have hoc runways where we go front from place to place our homes are beautiful with a number of rooms papered and car feted by soft friiss grass and leaves we eat cat more cadro in a day than we weigh that Is it if anyone weighed the amount of food we ate in it a day they would find that we were much smaller in size than the quantity of food we had bad eaten but it hurt huit us for we are so active always alays so busy we do not net even reft and sleep in the w inter the way some creatures do that Is I 1 mean we do abt not go to sleep for the winter we have very keen sense of hearing bearing oil yes we me can hear very well but I 1 roust must say I 1 haie bae no use ue for creatures ilio eat all the titue time and who are lazy we roust must eat a let lit in order to have the strength to do so much and we must do a lot in order to he able to eat it a lot I 1 dont like to hear of creatures who eat and batand eat at ond and who he then feel too lazy to do anything that Is dreadful we can protect ourselves by our bravery and also by our musk glands V which have a curious odor to them which the other onlin als do not like we are aie thankful to say we can squeak and cry nod and we ve can become very angry but were nere not dreadful little creatures ut at all and I 1 10 lo witch people would hear that we are not perhaps they will said mr short toddled shrew and perhaps the lie next time they see a little dark animal lilea looks something like a mole thy will say oay there Is a nice short tailed shrew we will nt inot barto him oh that would be plea pleasant gant indeed said aid mrs birk shrew well I 1 believe we time bine talked enough enouch I 1 have plenty 14 10 lo do and then I 1 brint bother much being sociable and talking my time amay neither do da L I 1 suld said sir mr short tailed shrew as lie wiggled ills chich was vas tile his wiy way of saying a polite i goodby good clod by to mrs sloat shrew |