It also finishes up the work done by these fluids.

It is one of the most important of all the digestive juices.
~9.~ The intestinal juice digests nearly all the different elements of the food, so that it is well fitted to complete the wonderful process by which the food is made ready to enter the blood and to nourish the body.
~10.~ While the food is being acted upon by the bile, the pancreatic juice, and intestinal juice, it is gradually moved along the intestines.
After all those portions of food which can be digested have been softened and dissolved, they are ready to be taken into the blood and distributed through the body.
~11.

Absorption.~--If you put a dry sponge into water, it very soon becomes wet by soaking up the water.

Indeed, if you only touch a corner of the sponge to the water, the whole sponge will soon become wet.

We say that the sponge absorbs the water.