Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 866
ing quiet for a single second. An animalof about the same size, but unlike the lorie in everyother respect, was lying on his belly at the foot ofthe step-ladder, motionless and apparently lifeless ;an old aye, or sloth, as our language very properlycalls it. A sloth would rather die than save its… … MOTHER MORETTA DEFENDS HER CUBS. slowly around the room, but you have to call himthree or four times before he makes up his mind tostir a foot. One of the baboons, happening to passnear the step-ladder, grabbed the aye- by the tail,turned it over on its back, fetched it a bite andscampered away.…
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