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a father robin, which in its turn raises a robin family. 
But what does the cell do when the time comes for it to 
multiply? The cell, working by itself, cannot lay an egg; 
it is nothing but a tiny, limbless piece of jelly. Its form 
is too simple to attempt a task so difficult as building an 
egg within itself; its form is so simple that there is only 
one possible way for it to multiply. 
It just divides itself in two! 
The man with the microscope can tell you all about this. 
Time after time, he has sat there and watched the cell 
divide. He has seen one cell become two, and those two 
become four, and those four eight, and so on into 
hundreds of thousands. And very thrilling it is to watch, 
he will tell you! Certain changes take place in the cell, 
changes that he is familiar with, and which tell him what 
is going to happen—the cell is about 
to divide! 
Here is a picture of the ameba 
dividing. It was drawn by a lady 
cell-student, and this is what she says 
about it. “First of all the nucleus 
(that is the more solid part on the 
middle) becomes the shape of the 
figure 8 its waist gets thinner and 
thinner, and soon it divides in two. After that the 
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