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STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS.

WITH PICTURES TO MATCH

BY

FRANCIS C. WOODWORTH,

EDITOR OF "THE YOUTH'S CABINET," AUTHOR OF "STORIESABOUT BIRDS," &c.

BOSTON.PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY.1851.

Preface.

n the following pages are grouped together anecdotes illustrative ofthe peculiarities of different animals—mostly quadrupeds—their habits,dispositions, intelligence, and affection. Nothing like a scientifictreatise of any of these animals has been attempted. I do not even givea generic or specific history of one of them, except so far as they areall casually and incidentally described in these anecdotes. Theirnatural history, in detail, I leave for others, as the historian orbiographer of men, bent only on a record of the thoughts, words, andacts of men, passes by the abstract details, however interesting theymay be, of human physiology, and the general characteristics of thespecies. I have not aimed to introduce to the reader, in this volume,all the animals belonging to the race of quadrupeds, who have a claim tosuch a distinction. I have preferred rather to make a selection from thegreat multitude, and to present such facts an

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