Atalapha, a Winged Brownie 
clad body of a Great Northern Bat, and when the 
wings had ceased to flutter, a closer glance showed 
that the skull was split by a blow from some sharp 
instrument. But the rare specimen was little 
harmed; he gladly took it to an honored resting- 
place. He had no answer to the riddle, but we 
know it for the working out of the law: Obedience 
is long life. 
ATALAPHA’S TOILET 
Atalapha, the Big Brother, now lived alone with 
his mother, learning many things that were needful 
to his life success; being taught by her, even as 
she was, taught by her mother, chiefly through the 
power of example, developing so fast that he was 
full grown before the waning of the Thunder Moon, 
and was far advanced for his age in all the wise 
ways of Bats. 
One of the first lessons was the making of his 
toilet, for the winged Brownies are exquisitely 
clean in their person. This was the way of his 
; \washing; After dipping once or twice in the water 
so the lower fur was dripping wet he would fly to 
some well-known roost and hanging by first one 
foot then by the other, would comb his fur all 
over with the thumb that grows on each wing 
bend; and then with finer applications of his teeth 
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