252 the bat. 
it did not refuse raw flesh when offered; so 
that the notion that hats go down chimneys 
and gnaw people’s bacon seemS no improbable 
story. I saw it several times confute the vulgar 
opinion that bats, when on a flat surface, can- 
not get on the wing again, by rising with 
sreat ease from the floor. It ran with more 
dispatch than I was aware of, but in a most 
ridiculous and grotesque manner.” 
END OF THE SECOND PART. 
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LONDON. PRINTED BT SAMUEL BENTLEY, DORSET STREET. 
