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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 969

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d(Fig. i). On a smooth surfacethe claws are turned down and backward and only thepulvillus is used(Fig. 2), and when the foot is to be removedthe pulvillus is loosened by being rolled up fromthe edges, as you would remove a plaster—only, in this case,much more quickly.Cheshire, in his ex-cellent… … FIG. I. WALKING ON A ROUGHSURFACE. PULVILLUS, OR PAD,THROWN BACK.

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