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Title: Mother Nature's little ones
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, Frances Margaret, 1870-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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efell in and sent baby Wriggler scampering tothe bottom. The mosquito children must havethought for a second that the sky had fallen,until some one pulled the dripping boy out oftheir nursery, giving them a, chance to getanother breath of air. Strange as it may seem, every mosquitochild in the barrel had to rise to the surfaceof the water when he wished to breathe. Per-haps that is why baby Wriggler was so rest-less. One minute she had to be at the top ofthe barrel for air: the next minute in thedepths below diving after something to eat.Enough to keep any one busy. Then, too, baby Wriggler was a happy-go-lucky little creature and seemed to be alwaysdarting about just for the fun of it. She couldturn somersaults to perfection or stand onher head until she was out of breath and hadto go for more air as fast as she could paddle. There were two games baby Wriggler andher friends certainly did play, whatever thegrown-up mosquitoes may say about it onsummer evenings when they seem to be so
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HE FELL IN AND SENT BABY WRIGGLER SCAMPER-ING TO THE BOTTOM BABY WRIGGLER I 5 talkative. One was a racing game. Thebabies formed in circles at the top of the rainbarrel and at a given signal started for thebottom to see who could reach it first. BabyWriggler never beat at that game because shewas such a little fuss-budget and wasted toomuch time darting from side to side insteadof going straight ahead. Another game wasto see who could go the longest without air.It was enough to make any one laugh to seethe scamps rush to the surface of the waterwhen they couldnt stay below another second.Baby Wriggler never beat at that game either. There were other times when it seemed asif the mosquito children were trying to playcircus; but surely that was impossible, as noneof them had ever been to a circus nor had theyeven seen a parade. Everybody knows, though,that grown-up mosquitoes go to circuses, andafter all it may be that baby Wrigglers motherwas kind enough to tell the little folks abouti

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