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Rh 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.”

NEST OF HARVEST MOUSE.

The principal food of the Harvest Mouse is corn&#59; 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