AQUARIUM 



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GETTING OUT OF THE AQUARIUM AT THE LEFT AND TRAVELLING OVER THE ONE AT 



THE RIGHT. 



the tail, put him in the tank and 

 locked the door for the night. Next 

 morning he was back in the aquarium ! 

 How did he get there? Surely that 

 wasn't the work of any of my boy 

 visitors. 



The question was perplexing. Tur- 

 tles cannot flv and the shelf was di- 

 rectly above the tank. 



By careful inspection of the shelf 



and the posts we found that the tur- 

 tle had climbed up the wire netting 

 which formed the wall of an adjoin- 

 ing cage, this netting being nailed to 

 the end of the aquarium shelf. The 

 turtle had pulled the wire from the 

 nails and forced his way upward be- 

 tween netting and shelf. Then in the 

 narrow space (he must certainly have 

 turned himself edgewise to do it) he 



'LET GO OF ME. I WON'T GO BURGLARIZING AGAIN." 



