Show ANIMAL MECHANISM the mole mola tunnels like a skillful engineer the nautilus is a navigator hoisting or taking in sail ashe as ike goes or casting anchor at pleasure lighters the bire pipe fly and the glowworm glow worm are lamp the bee is is a professor of geometry for he constructs his cell so scientifically that the least possible amount of material is 13 formed into the largest spaces with the least waste of loom room not all the mathematicians ID ians lans of the he world could improve the construction of his cells nor can the nest best best hermetical sealers among us preserve provision BO so well the caterpillar is is a silk spinner far excelling any any other in in his line of business indeed we could n not learn an art that would supply any silk worth tile the namo name without him si singing aging birdsale birds Bird sare are arc amateur musicians and excel ell all others in in harmony hardly call can we decide which of them most excels the lark lary the robin the or the nightingale oa feathery wing they rove and wake w ike ibe with harmony the grove the beaver is 13 a wood chopper and plasterer he cuts down trees by the river side and floats them to the place where he be would build llis his dao dam and lays them in a bed of mortar composed of mud and stones he builds houses of mud stones and end nd sticks six feet high in m such a substantial man ner that it requires much labor even by mali man to destroy them they are perfectly safe against the attack of any brute animal the tile tailor tallor bird as its name namo indicates is quite qui it e all an adept at sewing together the edges of a large broad leaf it uses a thread made from the filaments of cotton which is evidently spun by the bird itself it even knots the end of oi the thread to prevent its drawing through |