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the need for more commodious quarters ; so he cut 

 another oval piece from the leaf, as much larger than 

 his tent as he could reach without coming entirely out 

 of his cover ; before he cot it completely free he ingen- 

 iously fastened one side of it to the leaf with silk so that 

 he would not fall, cradle and all, to the ground. He 

 then used this fastening as a hinge as he came part way 

 out of his tent, took a good hold of the leaf with his 

 sharp claws, and flipped the loosened piece over his back 

 and fastened it down over fresh feed- 

 A^^^m ing-ground. What was previously his 

 j^^^^^^B tent was then a rug beneath him ; his 

 S^B^I^Bb new pasture was a margin of about 

 W - "W one-twelfth inch that lay between the 

 ■ W" edges of his rug and his tent ; for he 



^MlS^M^^ ^^® ^^^"'' ^^^'^^^ ^o exposing his pre- 



^^^Sf^f cious person to lurking enemies more 



than was strictly necessary. Before 



Fig 19. A Lilliputian |^g ^^^ j^ig skin asfain he may have 



Mud-turtle. . 



needed a new pasture ; if so, he struck 

 his tent and walked off with it on his back, looking like 

 a Lilliputian mud-turtle, and finally fastened it on a new 

 site (Fig. 19). He had already several times gone through 

 this process of upsetting his house, for he had two rugs 

 beneath him and two tents above him of graduated sizes. 

 And I knew that some time in the near future he would 



