Miss Apis's Tongue. 31 



I will catch hold of It and pull it, Miss 

 Apis, if you do not tell me what you did 

 with it. 



Will you? she seems to say, solemnly 

 looking at us out of her twelve thousand 

 six hundred and three eyes. 



No, we will not, because it is gone again. 



1 think, in spite of her solemn and owl- 

 like looks, she is laughing at us. 



Saucy Miss Apis, what do you do with 

 your tongue ? 



" I know what you do with yours," she 

 seems to say, and flies off. 



But now I know. I saw her do it. She 

 pulled it in, just as you do yours when you 

 have put it out of your mouth. But hers 

 is such a large tongue it could not be pulled 

 into her mouth at all. The best she could 

 do was to pull it up as short as possible, 

 and then fold it back into a nice little 

 groove under her head. 



It is a very useful tongue and a very 

 queer one. It has to reach down into long 



