The Common Objects of the Country

· 1889

EYES AND NO EYES--DIFFICULTIES OF OBSERVERS--THE BATS--LONG-EARED BAT--ITS UTILITY--SPORT AND MURDER--SONG OF THE BAT--A BRAVE PRISONER--HOW BATS FEED--HAIR OF BAT AND MOUSE--WING OF THE BAT--THE FIELD-MOUSE--ITS STEALTHY MOVEMENTS--HARVEST MOUSE--WATER RAT--AN INNOCENT VICTIM. Every one has read, or at least heard of, the tale entitled “Eyes and no Eyes”; which tale is to be found in the _Evenings at Home_. Now this story, or rather the moral of it, is, in my opinion, as often used unfairly as rightly.…

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