Books published by publisher Frederick Warne and Company Oct-22-2013

Comic Insects By The Rev. F. A. S. REID, M.A.With Illustrations By Berry F. Berry.PrefaceOH, wonder I much what this book contains!Can Insects talk, and do they have brains?I always thought that these queer little thingsWere made up entirely of legs, wings, and stings.A Black-Beetle teach me! And what, Bumble-Bee,In all the wide world can you say unto me?And surely a Caterpillar never has read?With green leaves for books, he would eat them instead;While neither a Moth nor a Spider could tellHow a pen should be held, or correctly could spell.And as for poor Snailey,—it's more than absurd,He never could read a one-syllable word!But I've heard of the School Board, and now it's appallingTo think that a Moth or a Snail may be callingAnd telling me too, as their little eyes glisten,Their funny wee lessons, if only I'll listen.