| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1009 |
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`Yes; but they're different,' replied Rushton. `Flies is provided by nature with a gluey substance which oozes out of their feet for the purpose of enabling them to walk upside down.' `There's one thing that seems to me to finish that idear once for all,' said Grinder, `and that is - water always finds its own level. You can't get away from that; and if the world was round, as they want us to believe, all the water would run off except just a little at the top. To my mind, that settles the whole argymint.' `Another thing that gets over me,' continued Rushton, `is this: according to science, the earth turns round on its axle at the rate of twenty miles a minit. Well, what about when a lark goes up in the sky and stays there about a quarter of an hour? Why, if it was true that the earth was turnin' round at that rate all the time, when the bird came down it |
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