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THE BAT.
" What nasty things! " exclaimed a little girl,
standing by my side, inspecting the bats, which
were hanging topsy-turvy in a corner of the
monkey-house, endeavouring to get a little
doze in the day-time, their proper season for
sleep, as their labour in life is fixed for the
dark hours of night.
" Poor bats! " I said, " trying to get a nap
here amongst all this clatter and din! They,
who usually inhabit caves and sepulchres and
old ruins. How strangely the lot in life of an
animal even may be cast sometimes, and what
peculiar views of the world they must have,
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