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Title: Mother Nature's little ones
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, Frances Margaret, 1870-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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coatand started out, all small folks, and big folkstoo-, got out of his way if they could. Themere sight of him was enough to scare a good-sized frog; so fierce was he and so powerfulwere the great arms in which he grasped hisvictims. His hind legs were used for swim-ming. He often bragged that no one in thepond could go faster than he, and the biggestfish there never chose to race with him. About the time young Giant Water Bug-grew tired of the Mud Hills, a schoolboyvisited the pond. In one hand he carried apail, in the other a rake. He wanted to knowhow the pond folks lived and meant to take agood pailful home with him. It so happenedthat he caught the Giant Water Bug first thingsimply because the silly baby tried to capturethe rake when it came dragging along the bot-tom of the pond, tearing away the Mud Hillsand waking the echoes in the stone castle, Only a few more days and the baby giantmight have left the pond on the strong wingsfolded beneath his coat — wings he never used.
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A SCHOOLBOY VISITED THE POND THE GIANTS BABY 81 When the rake flashed into the sunlight thebaby giant gave a mighty leap that landed himhigh and dry on the bank. Vainly the boy searched for his treasurewhile vainly the water-baby tried to find hisway home. The time hadnt come when hecould live in the air nor the sunshine. Longbefore the Frog of the pond began his song atevening the Giant Water-baby was dead. CHAPTER XIII. THE TIGER BEETLE^ BABY The Tiger Beetle had a baby: one of theworst-looking babies ever seen. He didnt looka bit like his mother when he was little, oh,not the least bit. She was a fine-looking creature: her form was graceful and her eyes were large and bright. Her dress was metallic green, trimmed with spots Of yellow. Of all the beetles, none were so light of foot nor so swift of wing as the family to which she belonged. Walking or flying she came and went like a flash. All beetles have six legs, yet some of them are ever so slow and clumsy — cant walk fast to sa

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