A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People"

"And now we _all_ have seen you," said the Stoat. "Marten has seen you; Polecat has seen you; Weasel has seen you; I have seen you; and Badger has seen you. Fox Cub, you yet hav...

Now the colour of people depends a little on the colour of their blood, for there is a network of tiny veins in the lower part of their skin, but it depends even more on million...

But Spinipes was too engrossed to hear her. Already, swayed by instinct she was hunting, hunting an unknown quarry in the lucerne. From plant to plant, from leaf to leaf, she fl...

The last notes struck the listener squarely. He too could sing. Had he not sung against the wood-pecker, yaffle for yaffle, note for note? He swelled himself to bursting point,...

The little insects go first--the flies, and beetles, and earwigs, and frog-hoppers, and myriads of other tiny creatures which you can see in the grass on any warm day by just ly...

Now about a Bat's eyes. I have already told you that these are very small--at least they look very small in our English Bats--and that it does not seem likely that Bats possess...

Perhaps I ought to tell you how to know a beetle when you see one. This sounds easy enough, but it is not quite as easy as it sounds. All beetles have six legs (beetles' bodies...

She is building a little tube out of sand which is so delicate that the slightest touch from one of our own clumsy fingers will knock it down like a card-house, but it is strong...

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Few know him and the careless eye may never see him. He is so small,--that four of him just stop a mouse-hole; so light,--that ten of him just tilt an ounce. Yet, if you search...