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Show TRAITS OF ANiMAL CREATION Even the Most Famous Naturalists Have Been Unable to Explain Satisfactorily. There are a great many strange facts about animals and insects that seem to defy explanation. Here are a few, an exchange says: A fly will crawl to the top of a window win-dow pane, fly back to the bottom and crawl up again. Hardly ever does it fly up and crawl down. It has been known to repeat this former act over thirty times before stopping. Hens always scratch for food with the sun behind them. A blind hen always al-ways manages to get the sun behind her when scratching, and she will miss but few bits of food. Cats hardly ever lie with their feet to the fire. In most cases they lie instead in-stead with their left side to it. Dogs invariably He with outstretched paws to the fire. A mouse overlooks a perfectly Bate food supply, sufficient for a meal or two, to enjoy the perilous pleasufes of an unlimited store. It will hide near the food and come out to nibble when hungry, for it is not true that a mouse will seek its hole at the first alarm. If a small snake is kept in captivity and fed and cared for, it will become tame, and after a few months crawl to its captor for food, when approached. This is true especially of the small and harmless varieties. The unerring ability of the homing pigeon to find its former abode is not due to a sense of location, but rather to a natural instinct, which cats and dogs have displayed when taken from their homes. |