IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
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THE LAZIEST FELLOW IN THE WORLD. 
Don't you think he is ? Look at him ; that's the way he hangs 
from morning till night, only opening his eyes to eat, and see what 
disturbs him, when he is poked up. At least that is the way he acts 
in the day time ; he may be livelier at night He goes on to a tree, 
generally the Trumpet tree, and never leaves it while there is one 
leaf left to eat. 
You would think he would get dizzy with his head hanging 
down, but he was made to live that way, and I suppose he would 
be as uncomfortable with his head up, as you would be with yours 
down. 
In fact he never comes to the ground if he can help it, and if 
he is put there, he makes a most awkward figure. His legs are to 
hang by, and not to walk, and he is so slow and clumsy on foot that 
he gets his name from that fact, and is called the Sloth. 
One reason for his awkwardness is that his fore legs are so much 
longer then the hind ones, that when he tries to walk, he is obliged 
