Identifier: birdsnature151904chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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him into her arms she carried himinto the house and ran for the bottle ofwitch hazel which Mama kept for acci-dents. She poured the soothing lotionover one of her little handkerchiefs andtied it on his leg saying: Oh, Fritzie, I hope your leg is notbroken. This will help it till Mamacomes, anyway. The dog lay very still and did notresist her care of him. When the ladiesreturned, they found Virginia holdinghim in her arms while he gratefullylicked her hands. The leg was not brokenand soon healed. Since then Virginia and Fritz aretogether most of the time. The dog fol-lows the little girl whenever he is allowedto do so, and if she goes anywhere with-out him, he anxiously watches for her,and announces her return by joyful barksof welcome. He is perfectly happy byher side. Indeed he is a loyal, faithfullittle friend. How did it happen? asked a friend,on seeing the dogs devotion to the little You see, explained Virginia, Iloved Fritz so much he just had to loveme. Henrietta Lee Coulling. r
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< •pi 1^ Pi g- o -J 1 THE GRAY RABBIT OR COTTONTAIL. (Lepus sylvaticus.) None of our wild animals are betterknown than our wild rabbits. Nearlyevery schoolboy and every hunter is fam-iliar with their appearance and with theirhabits. In their distribution, in one formor another, they are nearly cosmopolitan.In our own country they are found fromthe polar regions of the North to theregions of luxuriant vegetation in theSouth. Their long hind legs, fitted forjumping; their long ears and their largebright eyes; their short stumpy,upturned tail and long, soft hair, markthem from all other animals and placethem in a group by themselves. Thoughthe wild rabbits of the United States arenot rabbits at all, but hares, it is uselessto try to change the application of aname that has become so fixed and sopopular. Our domestic form is truly arabbit and has its origin in the Europeanrabbit, which is the parent stock of allother domestic varieties. The true rab-bit, in its wild state, inhabits a

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