Let's go ask him why Jerry Muskrat builds his house in the water."
The most interesting thing about this little Mouse is the way he builds his home.
Occasionally he builds an outside nest high up in a fork in the branches of a tree.
"Oh, Grandfather Frog, do tell us why it is that Jerry Muskrat builds his house in the water.
Another, the Argyroneta, or Water Spider, builds herself an elegant silken diving-bell, in which she stores air.
In like manner the speaker has certain instruments and tools at his command by which he builds his argument, plays on the feelings, and guides the beliefs of his audience.
To sum up, when working in the natural state, the Labyrinth Spider builds around the eggs, between two sheets of satin, a wall composed of a great deal of sand and a little silk.
Sometimes he uses a hole in a tree or post and sometimes a deserted birds' nest, but more frequently he builds a nest for himself--a little round ball of grass and other vegetable matter.
It climbs to God by trampling on Man, it builds Heaven in contempt of Earth, its soul is a phosphorescence from the slain and rotting Body; its fervent faith vilifies us worse than the coldest sneer of Mephistopheles.
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.