| Show A the tb RAW rate Is tb h loath of the ull C cite cl alf it Is I 1 a is fortunate thing tor for man and the reit rest of the animal kingdom no larger wild animal has a mouth built on the plan of the insignificant looking snail s mouth for sue such h in a ant mal could devour anything that liven any one who bax box noticed a nail snail fa f A ing must have wondered bow how uch such a loft soft flabby slimy animal can make its such a it harp sharp bad and clean cut incision In cliton in to I 1 leaf leaving aa an edge as smooth and stra tight BB as it it had been cut with a knife that I 1 Is due to the peculiar anil and formidable aldabe forr mouth be he has the blaitt I 1 nta eats with hi his tongue and the roof of his mouth the tongue ie in a ribbon I 1 bleb the snail keeps in a call lia his mouth the tongue Is in row ty ift band landsaw saw with the teeth on the surface instead of on the dge edge the teeth are or so mall small that as a joany aa as 30 00 of them their hare have been found on one mall a tongue they ars ar exceedingly harp sharp ud and only a few ot of them a are at a time not exactly only a few of them but a tw few of 0 them comparatively for or the snail will probably bare have 4 or of them in uie use at once lie ile does this by means ot of ble his call coiled d tongue he lit can as much ot at thic u h he chooses hoo ees and the uncoiled pan part ix be brings into service the root roof of 0 his mouth li Is as bard us is bone he gras pa the leaf between hta his tongue and that hard substance tad and rasping iway WAY with bis his tongue uw saws through the toughest leat with aae tuie always 11 leavins th the edge smooth and straight dj by use the teeth wear off at or become dulled biben hen the snail finds that his siv saw la Is becoming dull he uncoils another sec lloa and works that out until he b baa has come to the end ot of the coll coil then bo be colls coils the up again and 14 1 ready to tart in n iw w for while he be hae has beels be the latter portions cf of the ribbon trie the teeth hart have grown la in agala again la in the tle idle the SAW has been tiled and reset so to speak aad hile while he ts to using them the teeth in the back coll coil ara rn wed |
