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Title: Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors
For Young Folks
Author: James Johonnot
Release Date: February 14, 2009 [eBook #28077]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Baby and Chickens.]
Natural History Series--Book Second.
FRIENDS IN FEATHERS AND FUR, AND OTHER NEIGHBORS,
For Young Folks.
by
JAMES JOHONNOT.
[Illustration: black swan]
New York:
D. Appleton and Company.
1885.
[Illustration: Good Morning]
Good-morning! good-morning! the birdies sing;
Good-by to the windy days of spring!
The sun is so bright, that we must be gay!
Good-morning! good-morning! this glad summer day.
Copyright, 1884,
By D. Appleton and Company.
THE AIM AND METHOD.
[Illustration]
A machine, turned by a crank, has been made to speak words, but
nothing below a human being has been able to get thought from a
written or printed page and convey it to others. To make the machine
requires a vast amount of labor expended upon matter; to get the
thought requires the awakening of a human spirit. The work of the
machine is done when the crank stops; the mental work, through
internal volition, goes on
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