Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 535
The sultry summer past, September comes;Soft twilight of the slow declining year. … SOME SMALL ANDINTERESTING PROBOSCIDES. We all are familiar with thelong, flexible extension of theelephants nose, through which the animalbreathes, and by which it lifts food to its mouth.This we often call a trunk. The word,in this sense, has beenobtained from theFrench trompe, a trum-pet. A much…
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