Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — It Won't Roll Off. [ARTICLE]

It Won't Roll Off.

The egg of the guillemot Is one of the most peculiar and furnishes an admirable example of the way In which nature provides for the conditions of life. This 4>ird is found on the coast, and the eggs are usually laid on the bare edges of high roekß, from which position any ordinary specimen of the egg would probably rolLoff. But the guillemot’s egg won’t do this. It has been fashioned by nature to stop on., The egg is nearly conical In shape, broad at the base and sharp at the point, so that It will oDly roll n circle.