Chatterbox Stories of Natural History

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THE KING OF THE CASTLE

ZEBRA AND YOUNG

MRS. BRUIN AND FAMILY

LITTLE OWLS

AUROCHS

THE KANGAROO

THE PEACOCK

SWANS

THE SEA LION

A—THE ASS

B—THE BITTERN

C—THE CAMEL

BADGERS

THE BIRD'S NEST

THE CHAMOIS

JACKO WITH PUSSY'S BONE

MEMBERS OF THE POACHING FRATERNITY

A COW WORKING A PUMP

CARRIER PIGEONS

THE SIASIN, OR ANTELOPE OF INDIA

THE COMMON SNIPE

D—THE DOE

E—THE EAGLE

F—THE FOX

MRS. BUNNY AND FAMILY

THE LYNX

THE SWAN AND THE DRAKE

THE BEAVER

LIONESS AND CUBS

A PET JACK

THE SWALLOW'S NEST

THE BRAVE DOG OF ST. BERNARD

G—THE GIRAFFE

H—THE HYENA

I—THE ICHNEUMON

MOTHER-DEER AND BABY

WHOOPING CRANE

THE ELK

TOYS FOR ANIMALS

THE SUCKING-PIG

BELL-RINGERS

THE GUINEA-PIG

J—THE JAY

K—THE KANGAROO

L—THE LION

WAITING

THE ARGUS

THE YOUNG MONKEY

THE CLEVER FOX

TESTING HIS STRENGTH

A WISE DOG

M—THE MANDRILL

N—THE NYLGHAU

O—THE OSTRICH

SPRING

SUMMER

TIMOTHY

THE BRAVE COCKATOO

HARE TAKING THE WATER

AUTUMN

WINTER

OUR WILD BIRDS

P—THE PELICAN

Q—THE QUAIL

R—THE RHINOCEROS

BLACKBIRDS AND YOUNG

A USEFUL PILOT

JACK

S—THE SWALLOW

T—THE TIGER

U—THE URSINE OPOSSUM

A SINGULAR HABIT OF THE WOODCOCK

THE SKY-LARK

THE STORY OF A SEAL

THE KING OF THE MOUNTAINS

THE BEE

V—THE VULTURE

W—THE WOLF

X—THE XEMA

MOTHER AND PUPS

THE FRIENDLY TERNS

Y—THE YAK

Z—THE ZEBRA

SHEEP AND LAMBS

THE CAPTIVE SQUIRREL

A STROLL IN THE COUNTRY

THE OTTER

THE MASTIFF

THE CUNNING WOOD-PIGEONS

SEA REPTILES

SWISS MOUNTAIN SCENERY

PARTRIDGE AND YOUNG

THE KINGFISHERS' HOME

RATS CARRYING EGGS UP STAIRS

A HERON ATTACKED BY A HAWK

A HORSE GUARDIAN

BATTLE BETWEEN A FOX AND A SWAN

TOUSY

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MRS. ZEBRA, standing with her baby by her side, asks proudly of the lookers-on, “Did you ever see such a likeness?” and certainly mother and child are very much alike, striped all over their bodies, from head to foot, and from nose to tail, with the same regular marks of black. Strong and wild by nature, the zebra family are left very much to themselves, which is a source of great happiness to the mother and child in the picture before us. “No! no! my baby is not going to become as tame as the donkey, or to draw carts and carriages like the horse; it is to have its freedom, and go just where it likes all over these large plains;”—so says Mrs. Zebra, and she means it too, for if anybody took the trouble to go all the way to the hot country of Africa, where Mrs. Zebra is at home, and tried to carry off her baby, they would find their journey a vain one, and that she would kick severely, and perhaps break the legs of the person bold enough to take away her darling.

Let me say that this little owl is a very useful bird, for it keeps mice, bats, beetles, and other creatures in check, which might otherwise multiply too fast. On a spring or summer evening you may hear its plaintive hoot among the apple-blossoms of an orchard, or the sheaves of a cornfield. Curiously enough, this simple sound earned the little bird the name of being the harbinger of death, and peasants believed that whenever its cry was heard where sickness was in the family, the patient was sure to die.

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THE WHALE.

THE ELEPHANT.

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