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EXPERIMENTS 



The Stake is slanting; the Mole touches the ground, but at a point 

 two inches from the base of the gibbet. The Burying-beetles begin 

 by digging to no purpose under the body. They make no attempt 

 to overturn the stake. In this experiment they obtain the Mole at 

 last by employing the usual method, that is by gnawing the bond 



