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Their hinder feet have five toes, all small, and 

 ending in sharp claws. On the fore-feet there 

 is but one finger which the bat can use much, 

 because the others are like umbrella-sticks, as 

 I told you ; and the end of that one is a hook. 

 Here is a picture, in which you can see it 

 plainly. 



When the bat is on the ground, it is hard 

 work for it to get along. At first it will reach 

 forward a little to one side the hooked end of 

 its fore-leg, and stick it in the ground ; then 

 it draws its hind-legs under its belly, and 

 raisingitself up, just tumbles forward its whole 

 body. At the next step it stretches out the 

 other fore-leg, and hooks it, as it did before, 

 and drawing itself up, tumbles forward again. 

 The bat does not like a level place, because it 

 cannot raise itself in the air from it. When 

 they rest, they hang by the hooks : and here 



