The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1116
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The former has a peculiarly delicate leaf. In cold, wet weather its leaflets hang limp and numb from the leaf-stalk all day. In fine weather they are spread out horizontally. On a fine sunny afternoon its leaflets may sometimes take a mid-day sleep, for they hang loosely down in the same way that they do in cold, wet weather or at night.