Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 338
vent itfrom climbing up and out. After a while, thebody of the insect disappears, for the leaf digests it. The Sundew, also, digests or cats animal food;and so, too, do several other plants, including thatqueer one called Venuss Fly-trap, which hasleaves that close like a rat-trap on any flies… … MM i! ; \ now and then—a verylittle at a meal—withsmall bits of potato,cheese, bread, anduncooked beef. One day she put her finger on the bristles, just to findout what would happen. Snap ! went the trap, andgripped her closely. Then came a prickly feeling,then a sharp pain, and, at last, a racking…
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