""For protection,"" I answered. ""Don"t you know that all animals are protected by their peculiar markings that render them invisible? The caterpillar looks like the leaf it eats from; the scales of the fish counterfeit the glistening water of the brook; the bear and the "possum are coloured like the tree-trunks on which they climb. There!"" I added, as I concluded my task. ""I am now invisible."" Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1917 года (издательство "New York, John Lane Company; London, John Lane; [etc., etc.]"). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Frenzied Fiction (Stephen Leacock)