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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Child's Primer Of Natural History + +Author: Oliver Herford + +Release Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #26331] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD'S PRIMER OF NATURAL HISTORY *** + + + + +Produced by Jessica Rupp + + + + + +</pre> + + +<BR><BR> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/covers.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="619" HEIGHT="611"> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR> + +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +A Child's Primer<BR>Of Natural History +</H1> + +<BR> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/PublisherLogo.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="59" HEIGHT="72"> +</CENTER> + +<BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +By Oliver Herford +</H2> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +with Pictures by +<BR> +the Author<BR> +</H3> + +<BR><BR> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1899<BR> +</H4> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H5 ALIGN="center"> +Copyright 1899, by<BR> +Oliver Herford<BR> +</H5> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +CONTENTS +</H2> + +<TABLE ALIGN="center" WIDTH="80%"> +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="25%"> +<A HREF="#seal">A Seal</A><BR> +<A HREF="#giraffe">The Giraffe</A><BR> +<A HREF="#yak">The Yak</A><BR> +<A HREF="#whale">A Whale</A><BR> +<A HREF="#leopard">The Leopard</A><BR> +<A HREF="#sloth">The Sloth</A><BR> +</TD> + +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="25%"> +<A HREF="#elephant">The Elephant</A><BR> +<A HREF="#pigpen">The Pig-Pen</A><BR> +<A HREF="#geese">Some Geese</A><BR> +<A HREF="#ant">The Ant</A><BR> +<A HREF="#hare">An Arctic Hare</A><BR> +<A HREF="#wolf">The Wolf</A><BR> +</TD> + +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="25%"> +<A HREF="#ostrich">An Ostrich</A><BR> +<A HREF="#hippo">The Hippopotamus</A><BR> +<A HREF="#fly">The Fly</A><BR> +<A HREF="#mongoose">The Mongoos</A><BR> +<A HREF="#platypus">The Platypus</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chimp">The Chimpanzee</A><BR> +</TD> + +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="25%"> +<A HREF="#mole">A Mole</A><BR> +<A HREF="#rhino">The Rhinoceros</A><BR> +<A HREF="#penguin">A Penguin</A><BR> +<A HREF="#cat">The Cat</A><BR> +<A HREF="#dog">The Dog</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chameleon">A Chameleon</A><BR> +</TD> +</TR> + +</TABLE> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="seal"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/01Seal-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +A Seal. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/01Seal.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +SEE, chil-dren, the Fur-bear-ing Seal;<BR> +Ob-serve his mis-di-rect-ed zeal:<BR> +He dines with most ab-ste-mi-ous care<BR> +On Fish, Ice Water and Fresh Air<BR> +A-void-ing cond-i-ments or spice,<BR> +For fear his fur should not be nice<BR> +And fine and smooth and soft and meet<BR> +For Broad-way or for Re-gent Street<BR> +And yet some-how I of-ten feel<BR> +(Though for the kind Fur-bear-ing Seal<BR> +I har-bor a Re-spect Pro-found)<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="giraffe"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/02Giraffe-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Giraffe. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/02Giraffe.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +SEE the Gi-raffe; he is so tall<BR> +There is not room to get him all<BR> +U-pon the page. His head is high-er—<BR> +The pic-ture proves it—than the Spire.<BR> +That's why the na-tives, when they race<BR> +To catch him, call it stee-ple-chase.<BR> +His chief de-light it is to set<BR> +A good example: shine or wet<BR> +He rises ere the break of day,<BR> +And starts his break-fast right away.<BR> +His food has such a way to go,—<BR> +His throat's so very long,—and so<BR> +An early break-fast he must munch<BR> +To get it down ere time for lunch.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="yak"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/03Yak-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Yak. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 60px" SRC="images/03Yak.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THIS is the Yak, so neg-li-gée:<BR> +His coif-fure's like a stack of hay;<BR> +He lives so far from Any-where,<BR> +I fear the Yak neg-lects his hair,<BR> +And thinks, since there is none to see,<BR> +What mat-ter how un-kempt he be.<BR> +How would he feel if he but knew<BR> +That in this Pic-ture-book I drew<BR> +His Phys-i-og-no-my un-shorn,<BR> +For chil-dren to de-ride and scorn?<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="whale"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/04Whale-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +A Whale. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/04Whale.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THE con-sci-en-tious art-ist tries<BR> +On-ly to draw what meets his eyes.<BR> +This is the Whale; he seems to be<BR> +A spout of wa-ter in the sea.<BR> +Now, Hux-ley from one bone could make<BR> +An un-known beast; so if I take<BR> +This spout of wa-ter, and from thence<BR> +Con-struct a Whale by in-fer-ence,<BR> +A Whale, I ven-ture to as-sert,<BR> +Must be an an-i-mat-ed squirt!<BR> +Thus, chil-dren, we the truth may sift<BR> +By use of Log-ic's Price-less Gift.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="leopard"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/05Leopard-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Leopard. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/05Leopard.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THIS is the Le-o-pard, my child;<BR> +His tem-per's any-thing but mild.<BR> +The Le-o-pard can't change his spots,<BR> +And that—so say the Hot-ten-tots—<BR> +Is why he is so wild.<BR> +Year in, year out, he may not change,<BR> +No mat-ter how the wea-ther range,<BR> +From cold to hot. No won-der, child,<BR> +We hear the Le-o-pard is wild.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="sloth"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/06Sloth-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title">The Sloth. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/06Sloth.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THE Sloth en-joys a life of Ease;<BR> +He hangs in-vert-ed from the trees,<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">And views life up-side down.</SPAN><BR> +If you, my child, are noth-ing loath<BR> +To live in In-dol-ence and Sloth,<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Un-heed-ing the World's frown,</SPAN><BR> +You, too, un-vexed by Toil and Strife,<BR> +May take a hu-mor-ous view of life.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="elephant"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/07Elephant-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Elephant. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/07Elephant.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THIS is the El-e-phant, who lives<BR> +With but one aim—to please.<BR> +His i-vo-ry tusk he free-ly gives<BR> +To make pi-a-no keys.<BR> +One grief he has—how-e'er he tries,<BR> +He nev-er can for-get<BR> +That one of his e-nor-mous size<BR> +Can't be a house-hold pet.<BR> +Then does he to his grief give way,<BR> +Or sink 'neath sor-row's ban?<BR> +Oh, no; in-stead he spends each day<BR> +Con-tri-ving some un-sel-fish way<BR> +To be of use to Man.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="pigpen"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/08PigPen-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Pig-Pen. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/08PigPen.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +OH, turn not from the hum-ble Pig,<BR> +My child, or think him in-fra dig.<BR> +We oft hear lit-er-a-ry men<BR> +Boast of the in-flu-ence of the Pen;<BR> +Yet when we read in His-to-ry's Page<BR> +Of Hu-man Pigs in ev-er-y age,<BR> +From Cr[oe]sus to the pres-ent day,<BR> +Is it, my child, so hard to say<BR> +(De-spite the Scribes' vain-glo-ri-ous boast)<BR> +What Pen has in-flu-enced Man the most?<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="geese"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/09Geese-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +Some Geese. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/09Geese.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +EV-ER-Y child who has the use<BR> +Of his sen-ses knows a goose.<BR> +See them un-der-neath the tree<BR> +Gath-er round the goose-girl's knee,<BR> +While she reads them by the hour<BR> +From the works of Scho-pen-hau-er.<BR> +How pa-tient-ly the geese at-tend!<BR> +But do they re-al-ly com-pre-hend<BR> +What Scho-pen-hau-er's driv-ing at?<BR> +Oh, not at all; but what of that?<BR> +Nei-ther do I; nei-ther does she;<BR> +And, for that mat-ter, nor does he.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="ant"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/10Ant-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Ant. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/10Ant.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +MY child, ob-serve the use-ful Ant,<BR> +How hard she works each day.<BR> +She works as hard as ad-a-mant<BR> +(That's very hard, they say).<BR> +She has no time to gal-li-vant;<BR> +She has no time to play.<BR> +Let Fido chase his tail all day;<BR> +Let Kitty play at tag:<BR> +She has no time to throw a-way,<BR> +She has no tail to wag.<BR> +She scurries round from morn till night;<BR> +She ne-ver, ne-ver sleeps;<BR> +She seiz-es ev-ery-thing in sight,<BR> +And drags it home with all her might,<BR> +And all she takes she keeps.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="hare"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/11ArcticHare-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +An Arctic Hare. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/11ArcticHare.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +AN Arc-tic Hare we now be-hold.<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">The hair, you will ob-serve, is white;</SPAN><BR> +But if you think the Hare is old,<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 0.5em">You will be ver-y far from right.</SPAN><BR> +The Hare is young, and yet the hair<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Grew white in but a sin-gle night.</SPAN><BR> +Why, then it must have been a scare<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">That turned this Hare. No; 't was not fright</SPAN><BR> +(Al-though such cases are well known);<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">I fear that once a-gain you're wrong.</SPAN><BR> +Know then, that in the Arc-tic Zone<BR> +<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">A sin-gle night is six months long.</SPAN><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="wolf"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/12Wolf-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Wolf. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/12Wolf.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +OH, yes, the Wolf is bad, it's true;<BR> +But how with-out him could we do?<BR> +If there were not a wolf, what good<BR> +Would be the tale of RID-ING-HOOD?<BR> +The Lit-tle Child from sin will fly<BR> +When told the wick-ed Wolf is nigh;<BR> +And when, ar-rived at Man's es-tate,<BR> +He hears the Wolf out-side his gate,<BR> +He knows it's time to put a-way<BR> +I-dle fri-vol-i-ty and play.<BR> +That's how (but do not men-tion it)<BR> +This prim-er hap-pened to be writ.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="ostrich"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/13Ostrich-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +An Ostrich. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/13Ostrich.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THIS is an Os-trich. See him stand:<BR> +His head is bur-ied in the sand.<BR> +It is not that he seeks for food,<BR> +Nor is he shy, nor is he rude;<BR> +But he is sen-si-tive, and shrinks<BR> +And hides his head when-e'er he thinks<BR> +How, on the Gains-bor-ough hat some day<BR> +Of some fine la-dy at the play,<BR> +His fea-thers may ob-struct the view<BR> +Of all the stage from me or you.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="hippo"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/14Hippopotamus-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Hippopotamus. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/14Hippopotamus.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +"OH, say, what is this fearful, wild<BR> +In-cor-ri-gible cuss?"<BR> +"This _crea-ture_ (don't say 'cuss,' my child;<BR> +'T is slang)—this crea-ture fierce is styled The Hip-po-pot-am-us.<BR> +His curious name de-rives its source<BR> +From two Greek words: _hippos_—a horse,<BR> +_Potamos_—river. See?<BR> +The river's plain e-nough, of course;<BR> +But why they called that thing a horse,<BR> +That's what is Greek to me."<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="fly"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/15Fly-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Fly. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/15Fly.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +OB-SERVE, my child, the House-hold Fly,<BR> +With his ex-traor-di-na-ry eye:<BR> +What-ev-er thing he may be-hold<BR> +Is mul-ti-plied a thou-sand-fold.<BR> +_We_ do not need a com-plex eye<BR> +When we ob-serve the Household Fly:<BR> +He is so vol-a-tile that he<BR> +In _ev-ery_ place at once can be;<BR> +He is the buzz-ing in-car-na-tion<BR> +Of an-i-mate mul-ti-pli-ca-tion.<BR> +Ah! chil-dren, who can tell the Why<BR> +And Where-fore of the House-hold Fly?<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="mongoose"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/16Mongoos-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Mongoos. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/16Mongoos.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THIS, Chil-dren, is the famed Mon-goos.<BR> +He has an ap-pe-tite ab-struse;<BR> +Strange to re-late, this crea-ture takes<BR> +A cu-ri-ous joy in eat-ing snakes—<BR> +All kinds, though, it must be con-fessed,<BR> +He likes the poi-son-ous ones the best.<BR> +From him we learn how ve-ry small<BR> +A thing can bring a-bout a Fall.<BR> +Oh, Mon-goos, where were you that day<BR> +When Mis-tress Eve was led a-stray?<BR> +If you'd but seen the ser-pent first,<BR> +Our Parents would not have been cursed,<BR> +And so there would be no ex-cuse<BR> +For MIL-TON, but for you—Mon-goos!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="platypus"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/17Platypus-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Platypus. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/17Platypus.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +MY child, the Duck-billed Plat-y-pus<BR> +A sad ex-am-ple sets for us:<BR> +From him we learn how In-de-ci-sion<BR> +Of char-ac-ter pro-vokes De-ri-sion.<BR> +This vac-il-lat-ing Thing, you see,<BR> +Could not de-cide which he would be,<BR> +Fish, Flesh, or Fowl, and chose all three.<BR> +The sci-en-tists were sore-ly vexed<BR> +To clas-si-fy him; so per-plexed<BR> +Their brains that they, with Rage at bay,<BR> +Called him a hor-rid name one day,—<BR> +A name that baf-fles, frights, and shocks us,—<BR> +Or-ni-tho-rhyn-chus Par-a-dox-us.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chimp"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/18Chimpanzee-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Chimpanzee. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/18Chimpanzee.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +CHIL-DREN, be-hold the Chim-pan-zee:<BR> +He sits on the an-ces-tral tree<BR> +From which we sprang in ag-es gone.<BR> +I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,<BR> +We might, for aught that I can say,<BR> +Be hor-rid Chim-pan-zees to-day.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="mole"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/19Mole-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +A Mole. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/19Mole.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +SEE, chil-dren, the mis-guid-ed Mole.<BR> +He lives down in a deep, dark hole;<BR> +Sweet-ness, and Light, and good Fresh Air<BR> +Are things for which he does not care.<BR> +He has not e-ven that make-shift<BR> +Of fee-ble minds—the _so-cial gift_.<BR> +But say not that he has no soul,<BR> +Lest hap-ly we misjudge the Mole;<BR> +Nay, if we mea-sure him by Men,<BR> +No doubt he sits in his dark den<BR> +In-struct-ing oth-ers blind as he<BR> +Ex-act-ly how the world _should_ be.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="rhino"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/20Rhinoceros-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Rhinoceros. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/20Rhinoceros.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +SO this is the Rhi-no-ce-ros!<BR> +I won-der why he looks so cross.<BR> +Per-haps he is an-noyed a bit<BR> +Be-cause his cloth-ing does not fit.<BR> +(They say he got it read-y made!)<BR> +It is not that, I am a-fraid.<BR> +He looks so cross be-cause I drew<BR> +Him with one horn in-stead of two.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Well, since he cares so much for style,<BR> +Let's give him two and see him smile.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="penguin"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/21Penguin-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +A Penguin. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/21Penguin.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +THE Pen-guin sits up-on the shore<BR> +And loves the lit-tle fish to bore;<BR> +He has one en-er-vat-ing joke<BR> +That would a very Saint pro-voke:<BR> +"The Pen-guin's might-i-er than the Sword-fish";<BR> +He tells this dai-ly to the bored fish,<BR> +Un-til they are so weak, they float<BR> +With-out re-sis-tance down his throat.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="cat"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/22Cat-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Cat. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/22Cat.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +OB-SERVE the Cat up-on this page.<BR> +Phil-os-o-phers in ev-er-y age,<BR> +The ver-y _wis-est_ of the wise,<BR> +Have tried her mind to an-a-lyze<BR> +In vain, for noth-ing can they learn.<BR> +She baf-fles them at ev-er-y turn<BR> +Like Mis-ter Ham-let in the play.<BR> +She leads their rea-son-ing a-stray;<BR> +She feigns an in-ter-est in string<BR> +Or yarn or any roll-ing thing.<BR> +Un-like the Dog, she does not care<BR> +With com-mon Man her thoughts to share.<BR> +She teach-es us that in life's walk<BR> +'T is bet-ter to let oth-ers talk,<BR> +And lis-ten while _they_ say in-stead<BR> +The fool-ish things we might have said.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="dog"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/23Dog-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +The Dog. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/23Dog.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +HERE is the Dog. Since time be-gan,<BR> +The Dog has been the friend of MAN,<BR> +The Dog loves MAN be-cause he shears<BR> +His coat and clips his tail and ears.<BR> +MAN loves the Dog be-cause he'll stay<BR> +And lis-ten to his talk all day,<BR> +And wag his tail and show de-light<BR> +At all his jokes, how-ev-er trite.<BR> +His bark is far worse than his bite,<BR> +So peo-ple say. They may be right;<BR> +Yet if to make a choice I had,<BR> +I'd choose his bark, how-ev-er bad.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chameleon"></A> +<IMG CLASS="imgright" SRC="images/24Chameleon-a.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="250"> + +<H3 CLASS="title"> +A Chameleon. +</H3> + +<IMG CLASS="imgleft" STYLE="margin-top: 80px" SRC="images/24Chameleon.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="" WIDTH="114" HEIGHT="120"> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +A USE-FUL les-son you may con,<BR> +My Child, from the Cha-me-le-on:<BR> +He has the gift, ex-treme-ly rare<BR> +In an-i-mals, of sav-oir-faire.<BR> +And if the se-cret you would guess<BR> +Of the Cha-me-le-on's suc-cess,<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="transnote"> +[Transcriber's Note: In this file, the ligatured oe character +is represented by "[oe]".] +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Child's Primer Of Natural History, by +Oliver Herford + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD'S PRIMER OF NATURAL HISTORY *** + +***** This file should be named 26331-h.htm or 26331-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/3/26331/ + +Produced by Jessica Rupp + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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