The Toll of the Roads Most motorists in the country
have perhaps noticed this spring the abnormal number of victims of the Juggernaut wheel. One reason has been the excessive multiplication of the rabbit and the early breeding of the species. Many hundreds of young rabbits have been killed, most of them probably at night. The old rabbit is utterly dazed by the light and loses its -head. The young rabbit is paralysed. Every spring the destriietion of frogs and toads is inunenSe. No animal is more exchisiVelY possessed by the idee fine than toad or frog, when, recovering from its hibernating stupor, it decides to make for the breeding point. It goes perfectly straight, undiverted by any sort of obstruction, and is doubt- less beyond the power of using other mentalities than -the one absorbing interest..
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