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538                          IDEAL HOME LIFE
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13.   The Flight of Youth ...................    XI       52
14.   Seem' Things ...........................    XI       52
15.   The Barefoot Boy ......................    XI       54
16.   Farm-Yard Song ........................    XI      185
17.   Sleigh-Song .............................    XI     272
18.   Going a-Nutting ........................    XI     279
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25. ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE
Again we turn to the pages of our fourth and fifth volumes, in order to select out a few of the interesting stories that show how animal instinct guides to ways of conduct that often seem to show marvels of memory, calculation, and reasoning. These incidents do much to increase our love for our little brothers of the fields and woods.
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1.   A Field-Mouse Tale.....................    IV     255
2.   Friskytoes ...............................    IV     262
3.   Adventures of the Weasel ..............    IV     286
4.   The Elephant Trainers of Ceylon.....!r\.    IV*     515
5.   Training Wild Animals ..................    IV      523
6.   A Clever Specimen ......................      V         2
7.   The Gelada ............................      V       10
8.   Foxes ...................................      V       85
9.   American Foxes.........................      V       88
10.   The Weasel Tribe .......................      V       91
11.   Macaws.................................      V     275
12.   The Frilled Lizard .....................      V     308
13.   The Chameleon .........................      V     308
14.   Ants '....................................      V     373
15.   Gossamers ..............................      V     394
16.   The Spiders............................      V     581
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26. WHEN GREAT FOLKS WERE LITTLE FOLKS
Those who became famous were, as children, often no more fortunate, no more comfortable, certainly no more happy than ourselves. It is fascinating and it is encouraging to read how these great men and women started life in much the same way some of us are starting it now.
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