FIBST BOOK 
Part I.— ANIMAL LIFE. 
THE BAT. 
1. ^^What do you think the bats are doing?'' 
asked John's father^ as he and his son were 
walking out one evening, where some bats were 
darting about. 
" I do not know, Father/' said John. " They 
turn first one way, then the other, as if they did 
did not know where to go." 
2. " They are hunting for food. All through 
the day they rest, and when evening comes on, 
they go abroad in search of moths, flies, and other 
insects." 
^^I think they cannot see then," said John. 
^' Perhaps that is why they turn about so often, 
instead of flying straight on." 
3. The bat does not trust to its sight, but to 
its hearing, and most of all to its feeling," said 
John's father. ^^Its long tender wings and ears 
warn it when anything is in the way. 
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