Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 582
st is but an awkward, flapping shuffle. Bats are to be found in most parts of the worldand comprise (as the scientist knows them) overone hundred and fifty species, ranging in sizefrom the small mouse-like forms of the easternUnited States to the huge flying foxes of theMalayan regions. Some of… … A BAT ON A ROCK WITH WINGS STRETCHED OUT. The elasticity of the wing membrane is truly astonishing; he wouldseize an edge of it in his mouth and stretch it into all kinds ofgrotesque shapes in his endeavor to get it clean enough to suit his fancy,and sometimes, when at work on the inside, he would…
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