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the branches. 

 One of the 

 mosb curious 

 facts connect- 

 ed with them 

 is that they 

 seem to know 

 that if they 

 rested in the 

 symmetrical 

 attitudes in 

 which they 

 are always 

 drawn, with 

 their legs 

 spread out 

 uniformly on 

 each side, they 

 would soon 

 be detected. 

 They are ac- 

 co r d i ngly 

 found stretch- 

 ed out motion- 

 less in the 

 most unsym- 

 metrical man- 

 ner possible — 

 one leg out 

 on one side, 

 and two on 

 the other, for 

 example, the 

 remaining 

 legs fitting so 

 closely to the 

 body that 

 they appear 

 to form one 

 piece with it. 



