Marram Grass and Dodder Show Nature’s Tough Allies
The article explains how dodder plants clutch hosts and harm young vegetation while marram grass rapidly spreads rootstocks to bind shifting sands. It highlights marram’s role in stabilizing dunes, aiding Dutch defense against sea encroachment, and enabling pine planting, transforming deserts into health resort areas like Arcachon. It notes birds and plants as unlikely allies for farmers and nations.
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Landes
France
Atlantic
Bordeaux
Arcachon
Mab Wolf Recovers After Snow Adventure and Reunion
Mab, a girl who survived a perilous sleigh ride through deep snow, is rescued after a dramatic night. Two horses ran home with the girls, and Mab is later identified by relatives who claim kin via Polly Wolf. The reunion secures Mab a new home with her mother's sister and husband, while her foster family receives thanks.
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Mab
Michigan Road
Eliza
Polly's
Mat Wolf
Granny
Grandpap Wolf
Granny Wolf's
Father
Mab Calls for Father and the Sheriff in a Custody Fight
In a rugged frontier scene Mab resists being taken from her guardians. Her father challenges the strangers claiming Mab as their ward while the sheriff is his brother. The family endures fear, returns to their cabin, and later recalls Tom Andy Bill's enduring devotion and Mab’s bond to him.
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Lear
Org
Mab Wtal
Toy -Rees
Betat
Balser
Toon Balser
Mabr
Father
Mab
Mother
Uncle Tom Andy Bill
Tom Andy Bill
Baby Mab
Uncle Tom Andy Bull
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Uncle Tom
Andy Bill
Bilser
Slagh
Larkin Co
Larkin
Buffalo
William H. Wailing
A. M
Puritan Pub. Co
Dept
Phila
H. & Cunningham
Claude H. Rogers
Thomas Mfg. CO
Dayton
Ohio
Boston
Kehee Mpo
Vtoan
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