XIX. 
“THINGS UNRECK’D OF.” 
“You have told us of little specks called 
eyes in some of our mollusca, but, Cousin Ellen, 
can these little animals really see and hear and 
do they ever speak to each other?” asked 
Undine. 
“Some of them at least have organs of 
sight,” answered Miss Bremely, “and eyes 
which have been considered rudimentary may 
simply be so because our own are not delicate 
enough to study them sufficiently. 
“The eyes of the common snail are upon 
long stalks which are raised or lowered, turned 
this way and that as the animal travels, giving 
it quite the air of an interested observer. 
These eyes are very exposed upon their raised 
tentacles, and Nature has provided a very curi- 
ous device for keeping them from injury— 
which is only another way of saying that the 
kind Creator has a care for even the eyes of a 
little snail. The point of these long stalks 
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