FROM MOLETOWN TO BATVILLE 



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"Isn't it jolly!" cvied Nat. "You said that we' 

 couldn't understand rightly about the Bat's wings, and 

 how they were different from a bird's or a Flying 

 Squirrel's, unless we saw one. Will you tell us about 

 him here to-day? Because you said we couldn't go 

 back to camp for another week." 



" Yes, that is what I intended. See, I have brought 

 up a few pictures. You can look at them, and then 

 they shall have a whiff of sulphur to choke any measles 

 that might wish to follow them back to the portfolio. 



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Jf 



Little Brown Bat. 



" We have climbed the ladder almost to the last 

 branch of our Mammal tree. Here we find at the very 

 top, close to man himself, two orders of very strange 

 beasts, one living underground and one in the air. We 

 have seen how our Mammals are adapted to the con- 

 ditions in which they live. How water-lovers have 

 webbed feet for swimming, and climbers sharp claws, 

 but in these two great orders, Insectivora or Insect- 

 eating and Chiroptera or Wing-handed Mammals, the 

 particular development, which the Wise Men call spe- 

 cialization, is truly wonderful. 



