Books with title Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet: or, Furry and Feathery Pets, and How They Live

Excerpt from Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet: Or, Furry and Feathery Pets, and How They LiveTheir nests are a sort of little mattress, made of drift-grass and sea-weed, and over it they spread a bed of finest down. The care ful mother plucks this down from her own breast, heaping it up in a thick, fluffy roll around the edge of the nest.You know that while she is sitting on her eggs she must some times leave the nest for food. The weather is so cold that before she goes she carefully turns this roll of down over the eggs, to keep them warm until her return. A great deal of money is made by the Icelanders in selling the down. When it is taken from the nest the little mother goes to work just as carefully as before, and makes it all over. But if they take it the second time, and her home is left with bare walls, her breast bare, too, what is she to do?In a moment the male bird comes to her help, and plucks the down off his own breast. His feathers are whiter though not so soft.This down is so light that it takes a great many feathers to weigh anything at all. If you should fill your father's hat with them they would not weigh an ounce. And yet, after all, they would make you the warmest covering in the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet: Or, Furry and Feathery Pets, and How They LiveTheir nests are a sort of little mattress, made of drift-grass and sea-weed, and over it they spread a bed of finest down. The care ful mother plucks this down from her own breast, heaping it up in a thick, fluffy roll around the edge of the nest.You know that while she is sitting on her eggs she must some times leave the nest for food. The weather is so cold that before she goes she carefully turns this roll of down over the eggs, to keep them warm until her return. A great deal of money is made by the Icelanders in selling the down. When it is taken from the nest the little mother goes to work just as carefully as before, and makes it all over. But if they take it the second time, and her home is left with bare walls, her breast bare, too, what is she to do?In a moment the male bird comes to her help, and plucks the down off his own breast. His feathers are whiter though not so soft.This down is so light that it takes a great many feathers to weigh anything at all. If you should fill your father's hat with them they would not weigh an ounce. And yet, after all, they would make you the warmest covering in the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...the lead in their adventures. Kitty's coat was gray, and her four legs were pure white. Mary eaid she wore white stockings and white gloves. 141) SNOWBALL AND THE LOBSTER. As the two kittens were walking across the kitchen floor to the door Snowball saw Tom's basket, and went up to see what was in it. With his nose he pushed up the lid of the basket. He found something alive under it. He turned around to call Kitty to come, and in doing so his tail fell across the now open basket. There was a cross old lobster inside the basket. He did not like to have Snowball's tail in his face; the hairs on it tickled his nose. So he just caught hold of the tail with his pincers. He gave it a strong nip, and would not let it go. 141 Poor Snowball mewed piteously, and ran round and round the kitchen, the lobster and the basket spinning round behind him. Seeing the trouble Snowball was in Kitty gave one frantic "mew," and ran out of the door. She perched in safety upon the fence. The luckless Snowball pulled so hard that he drew the lobster out of the basket. He ran out into the yard and around the house, where he was seen by the dog. Watch ran after the flying lobster. Tom heard Watch barking loudly, and went out to see what all the fuss was about. He rescued Snowball from the lobster, and the lobster from Snowball and Watch, and carried the shell-fish back into the house. As soon as Snowball was free he ran under the house. He could not be coaxed out all the rest of the day. He lay there, sadly looking at his poor tail, and licking it from time to time. Since then he has not seemed at all curious about baskets and their contents. THE BLACK SHEEP. Farmer Dale had a flock of sixty sheep. Sammy Dale had a flock of six sheep. They were all his own, and when their w...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ <title> Four Feet, Two Feet, And No Feet: Or Furry And Feathery Pets ; And How They Live<editor> Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards<publisher> Estes and Lauriat, 1886<subjects> Animal behavior

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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1886]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng, Pages 296. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}