The Burgess Animal Book for ChildrenThis book, originally published in 1920, is a call to learn more about the animals with which we share our world, and how precious they are, through stories. |
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Agassiz animals antlers asked Old Mother asked Peter babies bigger Bighorn Billy Mink Bobby brown Brown Rat Buster Bear called Chatterer the Red climb coat cousin Danny Meadow Mouse ears enemies exclaimed eyes Farmer Brown's feet Flitter fond grass gray Green Forest Green Meadows ground guess hair Happy Jack Squirrel head hind hole House Mouse hunt Jimmy Skunk Johnny Chuck jump Jumper the Hare legs Little Joe Little Joe Otter lives look Louis Agassiz Fuertes Marmot Marsh Rabbit Mice morning Mother Nature laughed mountains Musk Ox nest never Nibbler Nimbleheels nose Old Man Coyote Old Mother Nature Peter Rabbit Prickly Porky Red Squirrel Reddy Fox replied Old Mother replied Peter Shadow the Weasel Smiling Pool snow sometimes Striped Chipmunk tail tell thing to-morrow tree tunnels Whitefoot the Wood winter Wood Mouse Yap Yap Yowler
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Page vii - The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader with the...
Page 169 - Olly shot him all over with a walkingstick from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail.
Page 203 - ... who believed in a lie because he is sincere in the belief. I like a man to be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him. Once I asked a man what he believed, and he said he believed what his church believed. I asked him what his church believed, and he said he supposed his church believed what he did, and that was all I could get out of him.
Page 311 - ... herd. Now a deer will not be driven in that sense at all. If a deer thinks the beaters are trying to •drive him to any spot, he will at once turn round and go in the opposite direction, even if he has to knock down or jump over the beater in doing so. Deer do not like to go in any direction except up wind, that is, in the direction from which the wind is blowing, so as to enable them to smell danger ahead. It requires the most elaborate plans and a very great knowledge of the habits of •deer,...
Page 7 - Peter?" asked Old Mother Nature kindly. "There is nothing in the Great World equal to knowledge, and if I can add to your store of it I will be very glad to." Peter took heart. "If — if you please, Mother Nature, I would like to learn all about my family. May I come to school to you every day?
Page 9 - Peter, what do you look like ? Where do you live? What do you eat? I want to find out just how much you really known about yourself.
Page 284 - Buster looked up at Happy Jack Squirrel and winked. Then he walked over to the tree in which Happy Jack was sitting, stood up and suddenly began to scramble up the tree.
Page 342 - Wherein Mother Nature holds school for Peter Rabbit and various members of the rabbit family to satisfy their curiosity concerning themselves, "their relatives, neighbors and all the other animals in every part of this country.
Page vii - It is offered merely as an introduction to the fourfooted friends, little and big, which form so important a part of the wild life of the United States and Canada.
Page 93 - The slab shows that the animal which made these tracks had four toes on each front foot and five on each hind foot. The line made by the dragging tail is also clearly defined.