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ANIMAL LIFE 



would meet with a sweet, sticky sap ; through the hole 

 made more and more would rise. Such a fragrant 

 bouquet no water plant possesses. Such a rising 

 sap no seaweed or pondweed exudes. To be able to 



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Fig. 13. — A group of Necrophorus and Aphodius Beetles 

 burying a Bird. — {From a specimen in the Manchester 

 Museum. ) 



lick or suck now becomes the insect's advantage, for 

 sap is not only more fragrant, but far more easily 

 digested than almost any other vegetable food, and 

 all manner of brushes, tubes, and tongues have been 



