Part 10 (1/2)

WHY THE EARTHWORM NEVER HAS NIGHTMARES

By the way, the earthworh he has his troubles like the rest of us, never _has_ night he has that stomach[11] and--a still better reason, perhaps--he never sleeps at night Like the lars and ht his busy day

[11] Just listen to this: ”Worms,” says Mr Darwin, in that remarkable book of his, ”are indifferent to very sharp objects, even rose thorns and slass”

And, in other ways, while he is so much like the rest of us worms of the dust, his life differs froht while ork by day, and works underground while ork on top, but he takes his vacation in the Winter while we take ours in Summer In that respect Mr Earthworm is like the oes in the direction we call south on the map--that is to say _down_

But, as you say, it takes all kinds of people toearthworms and millionaires!

HIDE AND SEEK IN THE LIBRARY

Who was that in Mother Goose that went a-fishi+ng ”for to catch a whale”? Anyhow, there are fishwor whales How long do you suppose they are, these big fishworms? A foot?

Pshaw! We have fishwor Two feet? More

Three feet? More You look it up in the article on the earthworm in the ”Britannica”

And how many kinds of earthworms do you suppose there are? You will be surprised to learn

Also, you will find that the earthworms have relatives who live in the water all the time

The article in the ”International” tells why these hbors of ours don't co thing to know Don't you think so?

And did you ever count an earthworirls are scientists; they want to _know_) Try counting the rings of an earthworiven in the article in the ”International”

How many hearts do you suppose an earthworm has? You will find in the ”International's” article they have a good many of what are sometimes called ”hearts,” and how different the earthworm's circulation syste like what it does for the earthworm; and our pancreatic juice?

Co his subith that of the ar their noses?

Do you knosubways; like those under New York City and Boston, for instance? Books that tell about this phase of hu way are ”On the Battle-front of Engineering” (”New York's Culebra Cut”) and ”Ro” (”City Railways”), ”Travelers and Traveling” (”How Elevated Roads and Subways Are Built”)

Speaking of the earthwore and how he uses it, do you know that all of man's complicated machinery is the result of only a few sie is one of the e_,” ”_machine_,” ”_simple machine_,” etc, in the dictionary or encyclopaedia

How does the earthwor his way in the world with the end of his nose coround? (See Chapter X)

The earthwor of the dirt he casts out reminds me of how the beaver handles dirt when he builds a canal, and the way of the ants in digging their underground homes

(Chapters VI and VIII)

We have little brains in our finger-tips just as the earthworm has on the end of his nose How h our bodies (_Ganglia_)?

You see the sis; and even Mr Darwin's famous book doesn't contain all there is to be learned about him in books and in personal intervieith Mr