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Show Living Things Thrive Under Canopy of Ice Life proceeds calmly enough within every pond and stream roofed over with its glassy canopy like a natural hothouse. Peer down through llieelear ieo and you '.vill fee the plants are Rrepn, though small, sml that there I 'ii'w fishes eliding about. Tli"ir scales, j however, show that they grow but ' Utile now. There is enough to en I. but their appetite Is poor. The land snails spin storm doors athwart the opening of Hie .shell, and, creeping into some secure crevice, become be-come dormant ; hut the pond snails move about as usual, but build no new shells. The small aipm'ie cresilures. still creep lazily over the feriiieni iisg mud or ensconce themselves in Us depths. The v. siter spider is wi sipped in a glisi ensng laililiie of the air be took down wiiii him. All th'-se liny eii.;ture of nsitiire's iinilerwi'i'ld an- at o;'M There is no r;e, i no.-, f.-i ;i'-tiii, little lie ce.- i t V for l.i:s : irg oi Cm ;,!'. I .tngi-r is ; lilt -i. i,o enr-::y ::' ) ! rpemb-d in , pniiiiii-s !:;.' (.. nl ill t d V o( in..!! In-: : siml -o. Use !!.. ,.!:lils , animal l f-ti'i. !' : :.:e from lii" u.:.;r ot s:;:.,;;.rr an. i t',r.-:.':;h for is,, iv I - - j |