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But the most curious fact connected with these distinct forms is that they are both the offspring of either form. A single brood of larva were bred in Java by a Dutch entomologist, and produced males as well as tailed and tailless females, and there is every reason to believe that this is always the case, and that forms intermediate in character never occur.
According to the laws of biometry, ought we not to find a retrogression of sections of the human race, who would sport simian tails and be clothed with simian hair? Or, could natural selection explain the loss of the tail on the ground that all the monkeys with tails died off, while the tailless ones survived, and developed into human beings?
A bear thinks her nasty, dirty, shapeless, tailless cubs the most beautiful things in all creation." She laughed at that, but as suddenly relapsed into a fixed gloom.
And so when the bear got tired waiting for a bite, or even a nibble, he tried to leave the place, but found it was impossible without leaving his tail behind him. This he had to do, or freeze or starve to death, and so he broke loose, and ever after has been tailless. This is one of the many traditions that abound among the Indians. They have traditions to account for almost everything in nature.
The tail is lost, as there is no further use for it. It undergoes a fatty degeneration, and disappears with the chorda dorsalis. The tailless body changes into an unshapely tube, and, by the atrophy of some parts and the modification of others, gradually assumes the appearance we have already described.
In the next was a plump, tailless bird, who seemed to be saying mournfully 'My little tail, my little tail! This bitter loss I still bewail; But rather ne'er have tail again Than Patty should deceive Aunt Pen. The third was less embarrassing, for it was a pretty bunch of flowers so daintily drawn one could almost think they smelt them, and these lines were underneath
His gaze was directed over the array of heads in front to where, beyond the Silver Lea, a group of shepherds and their dogs was clustered. While standing apart from the rest, in characteristic isolation, was the bent figure of his father, and beside him the Tailless Tyke. "Doest'o not want yo' feyther to win?" asked Maggie softly, following his gaze.
Now, the tailless condition both of the bear and the hyaena could scarcely fail to attract attention in a race of hunters, and we might expect that popular tradition would attempt to account for both, but how are we to explain the fact, that both Norseman and African account for it in the same way that both owe their loss to the superior cunning of another animal.
'Ah, here you are, you tailless ape! thundered Tchertop-hanov; he jumped on to the sofa, and with a blow of his fist burst a big hole in the taut canvas.
LOINS Powerful, well drawn up from the brisket. FORE-LEGS Perfectly straight, well under the body, with bone in proportion to the body. HIND-LEGS Strong, muscular, hocks well let down. FEET Small, catlike, and standing well on the toes. NAILS Black. HIND-QUARTERS Fine compared to the fore-parts, muscular and well-developed thighs, tailless, rump well rounded.
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