All Modern Men Are Descended

[footnote:] The Dotterel Weighs Only Four Ounces. It Has Long Been A Scientific Riddle How So Much Wrong-headedness Can Manage To Exist In So Small A Space. Still, There's The Least Gnatcatcher.

We Have No Common Vipers In The United States, But We Have Worse.

It's Easy To See The Faults In People, I Know; And It's Harder To See The Good. Especially When The Good Isn't There.

Let's Not Be Too Quick To Blame The Human Race For Everything. A Great Many Species Of Animals Became Extinct Before Man Ever Appeared On Earth.

Other Countries May Boast Of This And That, But Nobody Can Touch The United States For Poisonous Snakes. We Have About Twenty Species, Most Of Them Deadly, And Europe Has Only Five Or Six, None Of Them Much Good. We Have Fifteen Kinds Of Rattlesnakes Alone And Nobody Else Has Even One. [footnote: There Is A Species In Central And South America, But It Probably Came From Here.]