

COMPARING BONES. 



WHEN we have plucked the feathers off our Thanksgiving 

 turkey and have eaten the meat, there are the bones left. We 

 do not always realize that under our own skin and flesh there 



FIG. 11. SKELETONS OF MAN AND BIRD. 



(By courtesy of McClure's Magazine. Copyrighted, 1897, by the 8. S. McClure Co.) 



are bones, too. This picture of the bones of a bird and of a man, 

 drawn to the same scale, reminds us that after all we are much 

 like the bird. If you will save the leg-bones, the breast-bone, 

 and the wing and shoulder bones of a cooked fowl, a boiled 



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