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Title: A Child's Primer Of Natural History

Author: Oliver Herford

Release Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #26331]

Language: English

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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