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Show Long and Short of It ' Proved Speaker's Point "Nature," observed the lectw to his audience in the village half "always tries to make compr? tion for any deficiency in its strut ture. For instance, if a man"0L the sight of an eye, the sight "a the other eye invariably beco-, j.: stronger, just as when a Vrsoi -2 goes deaf in one ear, the heari '' of the other ear becomes rr.'-e acute. And if an arm or a hard jj lost, the strength and skill cf ''I the remaining member becorr ''-i greater." " "That's certainly true," sa:i one young fellow to his neighbor ;' "for I've noticed that when ap' ': son has one short leg, the other "is always longer." |