WATER-BEAK. 



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very comical amusing little fellow he was. The 

 figure was like that of a new-born pup*py, or ''un- 

 licked" bear cub; each of the eiglit legs were pro- 

 vided with four serviceable claws, there was no tail, 

 and the blunt head was susceptible of considerable 

 alteration of shape. He was grubbing about among 

 some bits of decayed vegetation, and from the mass 



Water-Bear. 



of green matter in his stomach, it Avas evident that 

 he was not one of that painfully numerous class in 

 England— the starving ])oor. 



A power of one hundred and five linear, obtained 

 with a two-thirds object-glass, and the second eye- 

 piece, enabled all his motions and general structure 

 to be exhibited, and shewed that he possessed a 

 sort of gizzard, whose details would require more 

 magnification to bring out. Accordingly the dipping- 



