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Show HOW TJP! SAT nups ITS WAY, The cavern rat. found In the Mammoth Mam-moth cave of Kentucky, Is of a soft, bluish color, with white neck and feet It has enormous eyes, black as night, but quite unprovided with irises, These eyes are perfectly insensible to light, and when the experiment has been made of catching a cavern rat and turning It loose in the bright sunlight. sun-light. It blunders, about, striking Itself agtinst everything, is unable to provide itself with food and finally falls down and dies. Itf Us native depths, however. It is able to lead a comfortable enough ex-Utence, ex-Utence, as Its enormously long whiskers whis-kers are so extremely sensitive that they enable It to find Its way rapidly through the' darkneeB. The principal fcod of the cavern rat consists of a kind of large cricket, of a pale yellow color, and which, like'most cave-dwellers. Is perfectly blind. Tit Bits, |