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Singular Instance Of A Capacity To Endure Abstinence And Hunger In A Spider.
and attacked the stranger . It returned several times to the charge ; and in these different conflicts its enemy , being deprived of almost all its claws , it carried them away , and retired to its former situation to devour them . The meagre one itself had also lost three of its claws , on which it equally fed ; and I perceived thstits . p lumpness was in some measure restored by this repast . At length , the new comer , defencefell the next day sacrificeIt
deprived of all its means of , a . was speedily devoured ; and in less than twenty-four hours the old inhabitant of the bell became as round as it had been at the first moment of its confinement . . Other animsls can by no means endure the same degree of hungei . An abstinence of a few days is sufficient to destroy them ; anel the to the nature of their food
term will be shorter or longer , according . Among birds , for example , the granivorous generally die in the space of from forty-eig ht to sixty hours , while the entomophagi , those who feed on insects , will hold out for a short time longer .-Butthose whichcan least bear abstinence are such as live on fruit ; a property that is owing , probably , to their stomach , wluch , _ digestneed of alimentThis quick
ing more speedily , has more frequent . dio-estion , however , is attended with one advantage , which is , that reduced to an equal degree of inanition by abstinence , the animal , it assisted , will recover and resume its strength sooner than others . With the granivorous species this is not the case Debilitated to a but the seeds which they usuallfeed be
certain point , if nothing on y o-iven- them , they can never be restored ; their stomach having lost ,, in part , its power of digestion . The carnivorous , oil the contrary , retain theii digestion to the last moment ; and hence it happens that receiving the kind of food which is-suited to them , an instant only is Eneoessary to their recovery .
Absence Of Mind.
ABSENCE OF MIND .
HPHOSE who are subject to an absence of mind , are gmlty of such 1 ridiculous actions , ' and misapplication of their observations . as frequently occasion much embarrassment to the company which they are in . Their blunders , however , are often productive of much lil loHere was frequently subject to-be absent . One day being in a he hired coach to himtheie and
hurry to get to the theatre , a convey . , as lid not go as fast as he wished , he got out , p laced h . mseli behind fhe carria- * , and endeavoured to push it forward . He did not percele his folly , notwithstanding the loud and general laughter of every otie that passld . When he got , to the theatre he was covered wit . mud and abused the . coachman for having such a dirty carnage ; i or -did he know of what he had been guilty , until the . coachman , after ¦ laughing till he was tired , told him .
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Singular Instance Of A Capacity To Endure Abstinence And Hunger In A Spider.
and attacked the stranger . It returned several times to the charge ; and in these different conflicts its enemy , being deprived of almost all its claws , it carried them away , and retired to its former situation to devour them . The meagre one itself had also lost three of its claws , on which it equally fed ; and I perceived thstits . p lumpness was in some measure restored by this repast . At length , the new comer , defencefell the next day sacrificeIt
deprived of all its means of , a . was speedily devoured ; and in less than twenty-four hours the old inhabitant of the bell became as round as it had been at the first moment of its confinement . . Other animsls can by no means endure the same degree of hungei . An abstinence of a few days is sufficient to destroy them ; anel the to the nature of their food
term will be shorter or longer , according . Among birds , for example , the granivorous generally die in the space of from forty-eig ht to sixty hours , while the entomophagi , those who feed on insects , will hold out for a short time longer .-Butthose whichcan least bear abstinence are such as live on fruit ; a property that is owing , probably , to their stomach , wluch , _ digestneed of alimentThis quick
ing more speedily , has more frequent . dio-estion , however , is attended with one advantage , which is , that reduced to an equal degree of inanition by abstinence , the animal , it assisted , will recover and resume its strength sooner than others . With the granivorous species this is not the case Debilitated to a but the seeds which they usuallfeed be
certain point , if nothing on y o-iven- them , they can never be restored ; their stomach having lost ,, in part , its power of digestion . The carnivorous , oil the contrary , retain theii digestion to the last moment ; and hence it happens that receiving the kind of food which is-suited to them , an instant only is Eneoessary to their recovery .
Absence Of Mind.
ABSENCE OF MIND .
HPHOSE who are subject to an absence of mind , are gmlty of such 1 ridiculous actions , ' and misapplication of their observations . as frequently occasion much embarrassment to the company which they are in . Their blunders , however , are often productive of much lil loHere was frequently subject to-be absent . One day being in a he hired coach to himtheie and
hurry to get to the theatre , a convey . , as lid not go as fast as he wished , he got out , p laced h . mseli behind fhe carria- * , and endeavoured to push it forward . He did not percele his folly , notwithstanding the loud and general laughter of every otie that passld . When he got , to the theatre he was covered wit . mud and abused the . coachman for having such a dirty carnage ; i or -did he know of what he had been guilty , until the . coachman , after ¦ laughing till he was tired , told him .