Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 490
ck off and go aheadagain just as before. Then the man triedpricking him from behind. The silly creatureacted exactly as he had done before, eventhough this time, of course, he backed rightagainst the point of the needle. The more hewas pricked the more he backed, though thiswas clearly the very… … water, he cooled it, and put all sorts of thingsinto it. But no matter what he did, the infu-sorian always acted in the same way, by swim-ming first backward for a short distance andthen forward again with a slight turn to oneside. Furthermore, the observer found that the in-fusorian seemed never…
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