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School pressure should not suppress this instinct of omnivorous reading, which at this age sometimes prompts the resolve to read encyclopedias, and even libraries, or to sample everything to be found in books at home.
"Accordingly," says one Chinese author, "even the pupils at the village schools threw away their text-books of rhetoric, and began to study primers of history, geography, and political economy" a striking anticipation of the movement in vogue to-day. "I have myself been," he tells us, "an omnivorous reader of books of all kinds, even, for example, of ancient medical and botanical works.
And Paddy must indeed have been a jail-bird, or deserved to be one, for he is marked and scarred from end to end. But he is good-tempered, tough as hickory and obligingly omnivorous. Every one in the West, men and women alike, rides astride, and I have been practising on Paddy.
Although not a steam or mechanical engineer, his quick grasp of principles and omnivorous reading had soon supplied the lack of training; nor had he forgotten the practical experience picked up as a boy on the locomotives of the Grand Trunk road.
The people are omnivorous readers, and "stories," "novels," are ground out by the ton; but I doubt if a book has been produced since the time of Hawthorne that will really live as a great classic.
This is the case with no other source of flesh-supply, and this fact gives the pig a peculiar importance. Owing to the remarkably complete domestication of this animal, and also to the fact that it is omnivorous, the creature has ever been a favorite with the cotter class.
The Epeira, who, being omnivorous, is obliged to generalize, abandons scientific methods and makes up for this by distilling a poison capable of producing torpor and even death, no matter what the point attacked.
They were like gigantic slugs, or long black bags with frills at the top. Mr Hooker purchased a basket full of the creatures, which he wished to examine more at his leisure. "But of what use can those ugly things be?" asked Emily, as we pulled back to the vessel. "Our omnivorous friends the Chinese would be very much surprised at your asking the question," answered Mr Hooker.
Rooks were scarce, and a little later he copied, with the aid of his brother, several large volumes, and had fifty live birds in his room at one time. At twelve Huxley became an omnivorous reader, and two or three years later devoured Hamilton's Logic and became deeply interested in metaphysics.
Nature of the sites inhabited Can live long under water Nocturnal Wander about at night Often lie close to the mouths of their burrows, and are thus destroyed in large numbers by birds Structure Do not possess eyes, but can distinguish between light and darkness Retreat rapidly when brightly illuminated, not by a reflex action Power of attention Sensitive to heat and cold Completely deaf Sensitive to vibrations and to touch Feeble power of smell Taste Mental qualities Nature of food Omnivorous Digestion Leaves before being swallowed, moistened with a fluid of the nature of the pancreatic secretion Extra-stomachal digestion Calciferous glands, structure of Calcareous concretions formed in the anterior pair of glands The calcareous matter primarily an excretion, but secondarily serves to neutralise the acids generated during the digestive process.
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