Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 440
SKULL OF ANT-EATER. into such a wicked and dangerous world as thishas now become. Its countenance is a pictureof innocent stupidity, and as it looks at you, itsdull eyes and expressionless face say to you, asplainly as words, Pity me! I cannot fight —I i896.J THE LOWEST OF OUR QUADRUPEDS. 427… … TAMANDUA ANT-EATER. make one. I am at the mercy of everything andeverybody. Why is this thus? Why am I here?I give it up. This creature is a riddle that Icannot read. Being only a short-sighted mor-tal, it seems to me that the Sloths should have been better equipped for the battle of life, orelse…
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