has a rival in popularity.
An outdoor vivarium less attention; it may claim but a few feet of the town garden se to\an untamed quarter-acre in the country; its occupants, creatures, offer all that is sought on any stage—beauty, y, the grotesque, even, to the close observer, melodrama. shallow Still more sat Te pit bounded by a low ith an over-hanging edge.
ture landscape is built or pile up mileage in the sunny patches.
Desirable smaller tenants are crested newts, ornamental snails beetles which move like quicksilver and gleam like opals, and strangely constructed insects whose equipments for travelling in or on water are the envy of marine engineers.
(Every one who remembers being young will realize what a lasting joy 'a vivarium is to children. Long after nursery bed-time, if flood-lit, it continues to be a novel little show for frogs, for example, are then at their liveliest.
The only routine work is regular At week-ends a vivarium will after itself. In winter water tortoises and frogs hibernate in the pond, the Jand-lubbers,: in heaps of dry leaves, moss and stones protected from the weather.
warning is necessary. Neither scale of creation do all races They discreetly disclose 4
The beauty bare legs couldn't rate!
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