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RM2AG83NJ–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. this house — so he is very particular to have it just theright size, and not too heavy for him to drag around. When hefinds one to suit, he goes in tail first, and takes a strong grasp withhis two last legs, which nature—having denied him a house of hisown— has made very handy for this purpose. Once in, it is impos-sible to get him out; he will let himself be torn apart before hewill give up. In fact, he can draw himself so far back into hishouse that you cant get hold of him to pull him out. 234 LITTLE FOLKS Hes a famous fighter. He w
RM2AGA4D3–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. The bright-eyed little fellow lying full length on a branch, andlooking at you, looks like any other of his race, but in the climbingone you can see the edge of the loose skin which reaches from one 18 LITTLE FOLKS tther, and you can sec that when he stretches out his legs for leap, this skin spreads out, and presents a larger surface the air. thus holding him up a little longer than if he had none. This is the only sort of a wing he has, and that is the whole of his flying,—simply a little bolder leap than the rest of his family. IN F
RM2AG9CJH–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. ut theyre not verygood, and we prefer ducks and turkeys. Besides domestic swans, there are several kinds of wild ones.One, called the whooping swan, lives in Europe and Asia, andmakes a harsh and unpleasant cry. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 105 For though the swan is the most beautiful water bird, it isneither sweet voiced nor good tempered. In fact, Im sorry to say, he s generally very quarrelsome andcruel. Hes apt to fight, not only other birds, but his own broth-ers. He fights with his wings. Maybe you think them ratherpoor weapons, but he
RM2AG907C–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. heard of, are those thatare dressed in disguise all their lives. One who lives in the blackdirt with patches of white sand in it, is himself black and white,just the color of his home, and can scarcely be seen in it. One of the specter family looks so much like a little stick thatyou would never believe him to be alive unless you saw him run. His picture is on the opposite page. He is long and thin, exactly like a twig, and his six legs are likesmaller twigs. His head looks like a kind of bud in the end, andhis tail—well, his tail look
RM2AG87JT–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. harmless as he looks, he is one of the fiercest and most cruel ofBeetles. He begins life—like the rest of the Beetles—a fat grub,about half an inch long. He is by no means a beauty, having abroad flat head, and a pair of hooks on the back, by means ofwhich he climbs up his curious house. His house itself is merelya deep hole in the ground, which the grub makes for itself, in thisway. With his jaws and fore legs he digs a little earth and piles iton his flat head. He then climbs to his door, and throws the dirtoff. He sometimes makes hi
RM2AG9A9P–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. the way in which this motherfeeds her baby. When she comes in with the food, all nicely packedin her stomach, you know, she comes up on the shore, and thelittle one gets as near her as he can, all ready. She then beginsmaking a very loud noise, something between a quacking and abraying, and after a little of this—which I suppose must be asmall lecture on table manners—she puts her head down and opensher mouth very wide. Baby Penguin puts his bill into her throat,and in some mysterious way—not yet explained—he gets food.This goes on for
RM2AG6TG6–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. res the jerboa, a droll little fellow about the size of a rat,who lives in Africa. He jumps like a kangaroo, with his hind legsand tail. Perhaps youd hardly like to put your canary-bird among thesehoppers ; but if you let him out of his cage on the floor, youll seehe doesnt walk or run, as many birds do, but hops along with bothfeet at a time. Little short hops they are, and very cunning to see,but still hops. I said snakes walk with their ribs, and so they do ; but there arethe soft little worms you turn up when you dig in your garden
RM2AG9P1D–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. asks to be let alone, to live on old walls or rocks, and catchthe insects and spiders he wants to eat. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 57 His name is Gecko, and he gets it from a singular noise whichhe makes. It is as near like the noise you make to a horse, tostart him off, as anything, and it isnt a spellable word. This picture is the Wall Gecko and is supposed to be a de-scendant of those who lived ages ago in Greece and caught spiderson the walls in the days of Aristotle. (See if you can find out who he was, and what he did in theworld that h
RM2AG9GK3–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. sible, spreading out his wings and tail, hissing, and snappinghis bill together fiercely. But he cant .look very ferocious—lethim try his best. Here is a picture of the baby Owls — looking out of the doorof their home. Probably waiting for their dinner. Not all Owls cry who ! who ! There is another of the family — the Scops Eared Owl—that cries kew, kew, in a sort of plaintive voice, that is really quite touching till it gets to be p tedious, for this little fellow—only seven or eight inches long—will keep up his {$ tiresome cry all ni
RM2AG9KXP–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. s, ifnot kept down by the Fer de Lance. You have all heard of our North American venomous snake—the Rattle Snake. I need not tell you about his peculiar way ofwarning people to get out of his way, by his rattle. He lives onrats and mice, reptiles and small birds. When the weather getstoo cold for him, he retires to some quiet place—a hole in a rockor a cave, or the wet ground, under some patch of long-leavedmoss. There he will curl up with five or six other snakes, andspend his long winter. The last pictureI shall give you, is ofa Horn
RM2AG7A11–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. I dont know as the last fish is much more disagreeable thanthis, the celebrated Turbot. It belongs to the flat fishes, and hasboth its eyes on one side. It is the special delight of the epicure,and always brings a high price in market. He is fond of stayingat the bottom of the sea, and then has to be caught by line; but ifhe comes near shore, he is apt to meet his fate in a net. The coloris brown, and he sometimes weighs sixty or seventy pounds, thoughthey are found of all sizes from six pounds up. The next droll fish I have to show yo
RM2AG9M9J–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. s covered with palm leaves, takeep off sun and rain. In the same country the natives—when suffering from thirst—kill a land tortoise and drink the water which they find in hisreservoir. 68 LITTLE FOLKS A CURIOUS FELLOW, That Walks without Feet, Climbs without Hands, and Swims without Fins. To begin with, he walks on his ribs ; and I dare say you haveseen him do it dozens of times, though very likely you neverthought how he did it, for you call it crawling. The curious fellow is a Snake, and in his long slim body hehas—besides good stro
RM2AG9HGD–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. t be ! Another of the Owl family is more nice in his eating. He isa little fellow, called the Sparrow Owl, and is about as big as arobin. He kills small birds, and actually picks them before eating. The big horned fellow in the picture, can be easily tamed.He will learn to know his name, and come when he is called. Ive read an interesting story of a great Owl, whose baby wascaught and shut up in a hen house. I suppose the little fellowcried, and his mother heard him, for every night she brought himsomething to eat, till he was big enou
RM2AG9FCX–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. d there she sits—like any old hen, only shecant curl her long legs under her, as a hen can, so she lets themhang down outside. The babies are droll, little, dull-coated fellows, and do not at-tain to the dignity of red suits till they are two years old. In old times Flamingoes were eaten, and thought to be verynice, especially the tongue, and I have read of emperors who keptquite an army of men for nothing but to hunt the unfortunate birds,that he might have their tongues for his table. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 91 Nowadays we think Flaming
RM2AG8W6A–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. uarters in his ear. So her reputationgot thoroughly established as an evil-disposed mother, and even thewise men who make the books fell into the error. Dont you believe a word of it! Nobody would be morefrightened than she to find herself in such a place. And, if shedid happen to stray in, she couldnt possibly get further than thedrum of the ear (you know you have a little drum in your ear, dontyou ?) But she has altogether different ideas about a nursery for herbabies. She much prefers a damp wall or a hole between bricks.This she pr
RM2AG99NA–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. Here is a picture of a Penguin just taking a slight lunch. Hedont stop to chew his food, you see, or to pick out bones, oreven to kill it. He takes it fresh and whole, and head first—andthat is the last of it. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 117. A SLANDERED BIRD. I would like to know—if anybody can tell me—why theGoose is always sneered at and abused. I think he is very digni-fied, and wise as any bird. This picture is not the common domestic Goose, it is calledthe Bernacle Goose, and curious stories were believed of its originin old times. It w
RM2AG7D4W–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. dead, of course. 296 LITTLE FOLKS When she has a pile of them, she takes a long wooden needle,with a string for thread, strings them just like dried apples, andhangs them up to smoke in her smoke-house—the top of the vam. Madam Squaw has to prepare a good many strings of driedClams before summer is over, or else she and her babies wouldstarve in winter; and they dont like starving any better than youdo, if they do eat such horrible looking things. I suppose youd almost starve before you could eat the driedClams, for white people, who h
RM2AG7RHB–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. nd carry them to a hungry mouth. I think the oddest of these creatures is called Venus Girdle, It looks like a ribbon—long and narrow, of blue and silvercolor, and fringed on both edges. See his picture on preceding page. It is found in the Mediterranean Sea, and is often five feet long and only two incheswide. It curls and un-winds itself in the water,and is a beautiful thing tosee. In some places, it iscalled the Sea Sabre. The last picture ofthese beautiful creatures iscalled the Berce, thoughsailors sometimes callthem Sea Cucumbers
RM2AG998D–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. r or anything else can getout of their way. A little spider may sit in the middle of the webwaiting for some unwary fly to come along, and in the very nextsecond, before he knows whats the matter, he may be a prisonerin the stomach of a humming bird, his web left all stretched, witheven the dew on it undisturbed. Mr. Webber, a naturalist who studied these little creatures*with great interest, and who caught and tamed a good many of IN FEATHERS AND FUR, 121 them, found that after a week or two they would droop, and seemabout to die. The
RM2AG9TW2–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. wray. That settled the matter of even a show of friendship, for neveragain did cat and Hedgehog lie together on the hearth. Hedgehogs are useful as food, cooked in various ways. Gypsiesand other wanderers in Europe have a curious way. The animal isrolled up in a thick layer of clay. The whole bundle is then put onthe fire and baked till the clay is hard and cracks. It is then takenoff, and broken open, when the skin comes off with the clay andMr. Hedgehog is ready for the table—or the fingers, more likely,Im afraid. The most curious us
RM2AG6WKD–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. ^ It is also put to other uses. Sometimes it is eaten—in theBarbadoes it is a regular object to be found in the markets. Inother places the shell is used for paving. The streets of VeraCruz are said to be paved with them. IX FEATHERS AXD FUR. 339 THE LITTLE CREATURES THAT LIVE IX THECOWRY SHELLS, . Isnt this a comical looking little fellow, crawling along withhis house on his back ? When I was a child I used to wonderwhat sort of an animal lived in the Cowry Shells, so long andoval in shape, and with such a very narrow opening; and I d
RM2AG757T–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. He is a droll fellow, and performs some curious antics. Some-times he will rush through the water like a race horse, examiningevery crack and crany he comes to, and then he will amuse him-self by standing on his head awhile, blowing holes in the sand onthe bottom. He is usually about eighteen inches long; but he hassmaller relatives. There is the Snake Pipe Fish, about fourteen inches long andthe size of a goose-quill, and the Worm Pipe Fish which I believeis the smallest kind. This one has very amusing ways in an aqua-rium. Its eyes a
RM2AG769B–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. Below is a fish which Mr. Wood says looks as if the head andshoulders of some very large fish had been cut off, and a fin put onto the cut end. It gets the name of Sim Fish from its shiningsilvery white sides, and partly also from its shape. - In the night it is brilliantly bright, and can be seen swimmingabout in its own light. It is five or six feet long, which you wouldnot suspect from the size of the picture.. It usually swims with the back fin above the water. Its fleshis white and good to eat. 314 LITTLE FOLKS After all these gre
RM2AG90J4–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. , hell dress himself in IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 143 the first thing that presents, either silk or paper. He isnt partic-ular, if its only a good thick coat. You know how men will run away from a helpless little animalno bigger than your kitten, called a skunk, because of an unpleas-ant fashion he has of emptying perfume bags on them. Well, verylittle insects also have scent bags probably quite as offensive totheir enemies. Some beautiful lace-winged flies smell so horriblythat even naturalists, who handle bugs and spiders every day, hatet
RM2AG98JY–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. is it done, that it hasoften been mistaken for a small knot. Some of the family hangtheir cozy nests to the end of a leaf, as you see in the picture, andthere they rock with every breeze, in their home not made biggerthan a thimble. Mamma Humming Bird lays two small white eggs, about thesize of a bean, and in ten days the little ones are hatched. Theresanother thing about these dainty cup-like nests—the edges are allmade to curve in, so that in a high wind the eggs cant be shakenout. Other nests are built on top of a twig, as you see i
RM2AG7H3Y–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. climb a wall,with perfect ease. He is called by fish-ermen a Mansucker, though in the books! his name is Octopus. He is an odd looking creature. Inthe centre is a round body, nearly allmouth, armed with a pair of mandibleslike the bill of a parrot. Sticking out every way from his body,like the rays of a star, are eight horrible arms. These arms are flatand tough like leather; indeed, the whole creature has hardly a bonein him. There are three rows of suckers the whole length of eacharm; as many as a thousand in one Octopus. Some of the
RM2AG7X8H–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. th gayfestoons of tiny eggs of the loveliest colors. Theres a funny thing I want to tell you about these eggs,when they are hatched into babies. Most babies—you know—arelike their mothers; that is, a cats baby is a little cat, and a cowsbaby a little cow. But a Medusa s baby isnt a little Medusa. Notby any means. First, it looks not much like anything, but it grad-ually grows till it looks like a pile of live plates. After livinga while in that shape, the upper plate begins to wriggle and twist,and finally with a mighty jerk it comes o
RM2AG75K5–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. It usually swims with the back fin above the water. Its fleshis white and good to eat. 314 LITTLE FOLKS After all these great round fellows, I think a slim fish willmake a pleasant variety, and heres the slimmest I can find—thePipe Fish, or Needle Fish, as he is sometimes called.. He is a droll fellow, and performs some curious antics. Some-times he will rush through the water like a race horse, examiningevery crack and crany he comes to, and then he will amuse him-self by standing on his head awhile, blowing holes in the sand onthe bo
RM2AGA3A6–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. e little four footed fellows, like rabbits and squirrels, maylook out, for shes extremely fond of fresh meat, and has fifty sharpteeth of her own, besides a nursery full of hungry babies to feed.She will eat birds, eggs, insects, or even fruit. But her favoritemorsel is a fat chicken, and here—alas ! — she interferes withmans comfort and makes an enemy of him. In consequence,Opossum hunting is a favorite amusement among Southern ne-groes, and traps and snares await her in every farm yard. 24 LITTLE FOLKS When caught, her best means of
RM2AG848E–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. meat out of the hard shell of the nut ? There are twodifferent stories of the way the Robber Crab gets his food, andboth told by trustworthy men; so we have to believe that both aretrue. One story says, that the Crab tears off the fibres coveringthe nut, digs out the eyes—those soft places in one end of the 232 LITTLE FOLKS nut—and works his claw around in the hole, till he digs out themeat. Another story says that after peeling off the husk, he getshis claw into one of the eyes, and beats the nut on a stone till itbreaks. This Crab is
RM2AG8YWA–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. honey. 150 LITTLE FOLKS Dont think that the bees and wasps make all the cunningnurseries. There is a little Beetle mother, who makes a pretty greentent for her baby. She makes it of a leaf, which she leaves hang-ing to the tree, so that every breeze will rock the cradle. Andthat baby eats its own tent up. How do you suppose a little Beetle would go to work to rollup a leaf ever so much larger than itself? It is a wonderful opera-tion, and Ill tell you how it is. First, she gnaws through the thickveins of the leaf in a good many places,
RM2AG87DT–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. endure the glory of it. The Tiger Beetle gives out a pleasant scent, like sweet briar.Heres another fellow that might be called a Tiger Beetle, only he lives in the water, and re-ceives the name of Shark.He will eat everything,even his own brothers. Itseems, indeed, as if henever could get enough toeat, and after devouring> everything in his own pond—tadpoles, small mollusks,young fish, and insects—hewill fly off to a fresh pondfor more food. The picture shows Mr.and Mrs. Dyticus (thatsthe lovely name the books give them)> and th
RM2AG6TD7–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. hat always walks with hishead down ? I dont mean a fly on the ceiling, but an animal aslarge as a good-sized dog. It is the sloth, and Ive told you allabout him, too. The daintiest way of getting about, for one that has no wings,is practiced by a tiny speck of a spider. She has a fancy to travelup in the air, so she throws out ever so many threads, which shespins, keeping hold of one end—of course. When there are enoughto hold her up, the first breeze carries her off, and away she goes,high up in the air, quite out of sight. Who would
RM2AG8TYT–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. find out in a minute, if you could get atthem. Youve heard that verse, How doth the little busy bee, ahundred tim^s I dare say, so I wont repeat it, but I want to tellyou how this little busy bee works. When the cold winter winds come in the Fall, perhaps youknow that most insects die, but this little mother doesnt get off soeasily. She hunts around, and finds a snug, safe place,—not in herhome, as youd suppose she would, but in some hole in a hollowtree, or under a haystack, or some such funny place. All Wintershe lies there, with no
RM2AG858A–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. 230 LITTLE FOLKS. A CRUSTY FAMILY. Funny looking fellows they are, too ; tip-toeing around on thehill in the moonlight, with their eyes set up like buttons, and theirclaws brandishing in the air. Perhaps I do not need to tell youthat they arj Crabs, and of the sort called Land Crabs, because IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 231 they live on land, and dig houses for themselves in the ground.They are sociable fellows, and live in what you may call villages.They are terrible creatures to bite, and can run like race horses; infact, many horses cannot
RM2AG9JAW–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. cy of the winds and waves — a funny little feather ball. He cant sink, and he cant get wet, for his feathers are soclose together and so oily, that water cant get through them. Sailors ought to like him, for he is not fond of the land, and isas awkward a walker on shore, as sailors themselves. Indeed, hescarcely ever comes on shore. Mamma Petrel comes on shore to make her nest, and a drolllittle home she makes, if she cant find a cozy nook in a rock.Hunting up a sandy beach, she digs a little cave about a foot deep,and there she lays h
RM2AGA627–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. standing on a pantry shelf. The little brown mother 10 LITTLE FOLKS was so industrious that in less than two days she dug out the insideof the loaf, cut up some paper for lining, made her nest and putnine little pink babies in it. Poor little mousie ! Im afraid the crusts brown walls were nota very safe home for the wee babies. Perhaps you have heard of singing mice. Not long ago I reada true story of a man who heard one about the house for some days,and at last caught it. It was not a house mouse; it was a fieldmouse, and its famous s
RM2AG8WBE–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. ^ The last little fellow I shall tell you about—only a quarter ofan inch long—is not really a builder ; in fact, hes a murderer anda thief, and gets his house in a very bad way. He has a fancy fora snail shell to live in, and he dont object to snail meat to eat. Sohe fixes himself by a sucker to the snail shell, holds a pair of pin-cers ready, and when the poor snail is obliged to open his door fora little air, the murderer cuts the muscle which holds the door shut.Then, since the snail can no longer keep him out, he can eat himup at h
RM2AGA7H1–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. h Horse, 210 Who^s that knocking at the door ? 214 A few more Beetles, 216 An object of terror, 223 Scale Winged, 227 A crusty fai?iily, 230 Deaf and Dumb 238 A model Papa, 242 Page, A comical Fisherman, 245 Sea Cucumbers, 248 Oyster Farms, 252 The Baby that lives in a Box, 257 A funny family, 263 More wonders, 268 The Sea Lily, 272 Hugged to death, 278 A Walking Stomach, 281 What arc they doing*? . 284 Cradles for Baby Fishes, 288 Salmon Fishing at Kettle Falls, . . . . .291 Little live Candles, 294 The Fish that builds a House, . ..
RM2AG9DEF–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. ragain, and all go in one flock. They eat grass and clover, and arcspecially useful in eating the seeds of a plant which bears burrsthat do great damage by getting entangled in the wool of sheep. At all times, too, they eat insects and snakes, and other smallreptiles. 102 LITTLE FOLKS These birds are very valuable to the people where they live,and are hunted with the lasso, and sometimes with dogs. Theflesh is eaten, and the fat made into oil. Of the skin of the neck,bags are made, and the poorer feathers are woven into beautifulrugs.
RM2AG77E6–. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. Just what the sword is used for is not known. ^ It has beenfound run into a whale, and also into the bottom of ships. The Sword Fishes usually go in pairs, and live on cuttle fish,and some small fishes which it does not need to kill with the sword. 312 LITTLE FOLKS Its color is blue-black above, and white below, and it is usually tenor twelve feet long, sometimes much longer. This fish sometimes has serious fights with the saw fish. It is not good to eat. The fishermen of the Mediterranean who fish for this creature,have a curious supe
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