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