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that it would roll across the table without being
discomposed, though it contained eight little Mice
that were naked and blind . . . This wonderful
procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts
of instinct, was found in a wheat-field suspended
in the head of a thistle.”
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NEST OF HARVEST MOUSE.
The principal food of the Harvest Mouse is corn; but it is fond of insects also, as was accidentally discovered by Bingley, in one which he had in captivity. ‘‘ One evening,” he observes, “as I was sitting at my writing-desk, and the
