Harper's Young People
The most graceful of all the little inhabitants of the forest is the squirrel. It is to be found in nearly every country, and is always the same merry, frisky little creature. The general name for the great squirrel family is _Sciurus_, a compound of two pretty Greek words sig...
My sisters are all girls, you see, and so taken up with worsted-work, and practicing, and one thing and the other, that I don't know what I'd do without Aunt Pam. I tell her eve...
2. Chapter 2"Oh, I must tell you: one time just as we were going along the road we heard a tremendous noise on the other side of the fence; we thought it was one of the whippers-in blowing...
1. Chapter 1The most graceful of all the little inhabitants of the forest is the squirrel. It is to be found in nearly every country, and is always the same merry, frisky little creature. T...
4. Chapter 4=The Paradise of Insects.=--None but those who have travelled on the Upper Amazons can have any idea of the number and voracity of the insect torments which work their wicked wi...
5. Chapter 5Your toads have found plenty of insects for food in the yard where you keep them. They might be taught to eat sugar, but they prefer a diet of worms, ants, and small bugs. They...