[44] I don't know of anything that is more fun, of an evening, than looking up things in an encyclopædia—except looking them up in two encyclopædias.
How certain kinds of mountains and lakes are made at one and the same time—by the same movement.
How even the wind may make lakes.
Why lakes are to the land what lands are to the sea.
Then if you will turn to page 75 of that fascinating little book we have already dipped into several times[45] you will find what the fact that lakes are to the land what islands are to the sea has to do with a peculiar beetle in the Shetland Islands (where the ponies come from) and the famous tailless cat of the Isle of Man.
[45] "Colin Clout's Calendar."
One of the quaintest little bits of real life in Lakeland is how the baby gulls of the Great Lakes worry their papas and mamas by going swimming before they are old enough; how their parents give them a spanking and send them back home; and how kind all the lady gulls are to the little gulls of neighbors that come to their houses to play with their children.[46]
[46] "The Bird, Our Brother," by Olive Thorne Miller.
DROWNED VALLEYS ON THE MAINE COAST