Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 145
ne forAunt Sarah, and a little one for me. It wont takelong to fry em, will it ? No, I guess not, said Uncle James. Let ssee, and he opened the pail. Then he laughed boisterously. Here, Sarah, said he, as soon as he couldspeak, put on the frying-pan — Lizzies beenfishing. Aunt Sarah took the pail… … The ar-madillos are the mail-clad warriors of nature ; andthe most completely armored of thewhole odd family of armadillos is a beautifully or-namented little fellow called by the naturalistsTolypentes, and, by the Brazilians, bolita. Bolita means little ball, and the armadillowas so named because…
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