Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 657
A TURTLE CIRCUS BALANCING ACT.A variety of the smaller species of turtles. At the top of the right and left columns are the two youngest members of the troupe inverted. 1132 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Oct., … THE JUMBO ELEPHANTS SHOW THEIR AGILITY!These are huge snapping-turtles. carefully on a spool, a bottle, a long, slenderglass tumbler, or on a goblet. If rightly placed,the snapping-turtle learns sooner than otherforms that he cannot get away by reaching down-ward, under, or outward. Then he assumes…
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