With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . nailsare slightly different in form. If you will take the horse you willsee that his neck is longer than ours, that his front legs correspond toour arms, and if you take your fingers and press them together youwill see how, if you were to study the anatomy of the horses foot THE TURTLE. 249 carefully, it resembles the bones in our hands, and the bony foot ofthe horse corresponds to the nails on the ends of our fingers, onlythat in the case of the horse the nails are all in one, forming the hoof,to which
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . nailsare slightly different in form. If you will take the horse you willsee that his neck is longer than ours, that his front legs correspond toour arms, and if you take your fingers and press them together youwill see how, if you were to study the anatomy of the horses foot THE TURTLE. 249 carefully, it resembles the bones in our hands, and the bony foot ofthe horse corresponds to the nails on the ends of our fingers, onlythat in the case of the horse the nails are all in one, forming the hoof,to which the blacksmith nails the shoe. The horses hoof, however,is not solid as you might think, but only a shell, the same as the nailson the ends of our fingers. Now if you were to take the turtle that lives in this shell orhouse you would find that he also has four legs, the front legs corres-ponding to our arms, and his hind legs corresponding to our legs andfeet. On the end of each of his feet he has nails, the same as youand I have at the extremities of our hands and feet. But I am sure. Birds. you would say that the turtle was very much unlike us, in that he hassuch a hard shell of a house which he carries about with him. Butif you will feel of your hands you will discover that you have bonesinside of your hands. So you have bones in your arms and allthrough your body. These bones of your body are covered withflesh, so our bones are inside of us. But with this turtle almost all ofhis bones are made into one bone, and that is on the outside of hisbody. Our muscles, with which we move our hands and feet and dif- 250 THE TURTLE. ferent portions of our body, are attached to the bones which areinside of us. His muscles are attached to the bone which is on theoutside of him. So you see that we are like him, in that both of ushave bones, only his are on the outside while ours are on the inside. His bone or shell is a covering and a defense. Our bones, onthe inside of us, are so constru
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