Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 101
des are the little animals called wood-lice. These are small, brownish, turtle-shapedcreatures, from one eighth to one half of an inchin length, and half as broad, with long antennae,and seven pairs of rather short jointed legs.Like the millipedes, they live upon vegetablematter, eating it even… … THE TURTLE-SHAPED WOOD-LICE THAT OFTEN TUMBLE OVERON THEIR BACKS FLOURISHING THEIR FOURTEEN LEGS IN AIR, ORSCAMPER OFF IN EVERY DIRECTION IN A LUDICROUS MANNERWHEN WE SURPRISE THEM BY LIFTING UP A STONE. iooi.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 79 ^BECAUSE WEWANT TO KNOW 0 Please state carefully…
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