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Show ANIMALS THAT MOVE LIVELY. The sloth is hy no means a small animal, and yet it can travel oniy fifty paces in a day; a worm c r a wis over li v c inches in ( i f t y seconds; a lady bird can lly fifty million times? itrf own length in loss tlr.:n an hour; an elk can run a mile in seven minutes; an antelope can run a mile in a minute; the ! wind mule of Tartary has a speed greater than that; an engle ean fly tiftydnur miles in an hour; while a canary i'akvui can even reach seven hundred and fifty miles in the short space of sixteen hours. Ex. |