 | Animals - 1885 - 456 pages
...sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole life in trees, and never leaves them but through force, or by accident ; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...without feeling much inconvenience. 3. But the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
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... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed... 
