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"Catskills" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... destruction of aphides and thrips they are among our best friends. The camel-cricket is another active destroyer of injurious insects. Why do not our schools teach a little practical natural history? Once, when walking in the Catskills, I saw the burly driver of a stage-load of ladies bound out of his vehicle to kill a garter-snake, the pallid women looking on, meanwhile, as if the earth were being rid of some terrible and venomous thing. They ought to have known that the poor little reptile was as harmless as one of their own ...
— The Home Acre • E. P. Roe |
Words linked to "Catskills" : borscht circuit, range, borscht belt, borsht belt, chain of mountains, New York, Appalachian Mountains, borsht circuit, Empire State, Appalachians, mountain chain, NY, New York State, mountain range, range of mountains, chain |
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