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Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...
...Seven Mortal Sins are: wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, covetousness and sloth. What is the seventh...
...What well known animal, besides the gorilla, chimpanzee, guinea pig, two-tailed sloth, orang-outang, has no visible tail...
...with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed toucans...
...Sloth drowses in his garden. His flowers have long fallen away, and round his sotted head creep the lank leaves of poison...