When our fowls are abundantly supplied with meat, they soon fill their craw, but it does not immediately pass thence into the gizzard; it always enters in small quantities, in proportion to the progress of trituration, in like manner, as in a mill, a receiver is fixed above the two large stones which serve for grinding the corn, which receiver, although the corn be put into it by bushels, allows the grain to dribble only in small quantities into the central hole in the upper mill-stone.—Paley.
CHAPTER LIV.
1074. Why has the mole hard and flat feet, armed with sharp nails?
Because the animal is thereby enabled to burrow in the earth, in search for worms. Its feet are so many shovels.
1075. Why is the mole's fur exceedingly glossy and smooth?
Because its smoothness enables it to work under ground without the soil sticking to its coat, by which its progress would be impeded. From soils of all kinds, the little worker emerges shining and clean.
"I know all the fowls of the mountains, and the wild beasts are mine."—Psalm l.