Part 14 (2/2)
FOR THE PUPIL
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_incisor teeth_: the four long front teeth of the rodents,--rats, mice, beavers, etc. These incisor teeth, are heavily enameled with a sharp cutting edge and keep growing continuously.
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_voles_: meadow mice.
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_chimney swallows_: more properly _swifts_; as these birds do not belong to the swallow family at all.
_vermin_: The swifts are generally infested with vermin.
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_clapper rails_: or marsh-hens (_Rallus crepitans_).
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”_List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle_”: lines from Burns's ”A Winter Night.”
CHAPTER IX
TO THE TEACHER
Make this chapter, as far as you can, the one in the volume for most intensive study. Show the pupils how the study of animal life is connected with geology, tell them of the record of life in the fossils of the rocks, the kinds of strange beasts that once inhabited the earth. Show them again how the study of animals in their anatomy is not the study of one--say of man, but how man and all the mammals, the reptiles, the birds, the fishes, the insects, on and on back to the single-celled amba, are all related to each other, all links in one long wonder chain of life.
FOR THE PUPIL
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_Charles Lamb:_ Look up his life in the Encyclopedia. Read for yourselves his essay on Roast Pig.
_modus edibilis_: the Latin for ”manner of eating.”
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_the 'possum's relations:_ They are the marsupials, the pouched animals, like the kangaroo.
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_reptilian age_: one of the great geological ages or eras, known to the geologists as the great mesozoic or ”middle” epoch, when reptiles ruled the land and sea.
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