Comparing a Beetle with a Boy 



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have some means of locomotion, that is, moving 

 from one spot to another; in the higher orders of 

 life these organs of locomotion are called "legs." 

 But one of the first differences which any child 

 will see between beetles and himself is that the 

 former creatures have a skeleton on the outside of 

 their bodies with their muscles and blood-vessels 



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and all their internal organs located inside their 

 hones, while with himself the reader knows that 

 the muscles, blood-vessels, nerves and other organs 

 are plastered, so to speak, on or around the frame- 

 work of his skeleton. In other words, the human 

 skeleton is the framework of the body like the 

 frame of a kite, the framework of a boat or the 

 framework of a house, and our own frame or 

 skeleton's use is evidently to stiffen and to hold our 



