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Show Have Long and Short Lives. Sparrows can live to be forty years old. A horse does not live much more than twenty-seven years. Cats get to be about thirteen years old. The tortoise tor-toise Is supposed to live to be between 300 and 400 years old. Some persons say toads can live forever, but, of course, that has not been proved, though certainly they live to nn exceedingly ex-ceedingly great age. Both an eagle and a crow have been known to live to be 100, but the wren lives only about three years. An elephant's lifetime life-time Is about 100 years, but he isn't regarded as grown up until he is about twenty-five years old. |