CHAPTER XII. To the Teacher

TO THE TEACHER

Try to bring home to the class the profoundly interesting facts of animal distribution--where they live, and how they came to live where they do. Point out the strange shifts resorted to by various creatures who live at the various extremes of height or depth or cold or heat to enable them to get a living.

FOR THE PUPIL

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“And God who clears”: these lines of Kipling I am quoting as I first found them printed. I see in his collected verse that they are somewhat changed.