STARVING TORTOISES. 125 



be liable to crack or peel off, the artificial life the 

 creature leads in confinement tending to have a 

 desiccating effect upon the shell. 



If each reader of this book would kindly tell 

 those who possess tortoises the kind of food they 

 require it would greatly tend to reduce uninten- 

 tional cruelty. 



