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is a drawing of one, resting. In the other 

 picture which I showed you just now the 

 bat was flying." 



"Uncle Philip, we did not know before that 

 bats were such curious things ; we always 

 thought that they were birds ; but if these 

 pictures are like them, these hooks are as good 

 as fish-hooks." 



"The pictures, boys, are very much like 

 the animal, and the hooks are just as plain 

 as they seem to be in the drawings. But 

 how often do you suppose that you have seen 

 a bat?" 



