| Show amoeba tiniest animal without mouth or eyes there Is a little animal so simple end and so queer that it has neither legs nor mouth nor eyes nor stomach nor anything else that hat most animals we know have it Is called the amoeba it Is the oldest animal alive and many amoebas may be millions of years old for they never die of themselves of all the strange animals that we know this Is one of the most interesting says say a writer in the washington star the amoeba Is small so small that one cannot see it without a magnifying glass to enlarge it and its body Is like a little piece of jelly in ID a thin skin we know it really moves for when it meets something it goes around it but except for this we would scarcely think it lived it multiplies by breaking in two instead of by laying eggs or having young and each of the two parts parti grows into an amoeba which in good time splits into two more these last two halves do the same thing the amoeba eats bits of green or parts of wigg wigglers lers or anything else tor for that matter which it finds in the stagnant pools where it lives but instead of taking these morsels into a mouth and then swallowing them find and digesting them the amoeba manages much more simply than that it wraps itself around the delicious speck of food and that Is all there li is to it IL the food la Is inside as quickly as a boy can wink and without the least trouble amoebas must breathe just as other animals must but being without lungs or mouth they manage very well by letting the air go through their skins like a summer breeze blows through a curtain |
