Natural History of Birds: With Engravings on a New Plan, Exhibiting Their Comparative Size (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Comstock, J. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330202473 ISBN 13 : 9781330202470

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Upon the Surrey side of the Waterloo Bridge, London, may be daily seen a cage, about five feet square, containing the Quadrupeds and Birds which are represented in the Frontispiece. The keeper of this collection, John A ustin, states that he has employed seventeen years in this business of training creatures of opposite natures to live together in content and affection. And those years have not been unprofitably employed. It is not too much to believe that many a person who has given his half-penny to look upon this shew, may have had his mind awakened to the extraordinary effects of habit and of gentle discipline, when he has thus seen the cat, the rat, the mouse, the hawk, the rabbit, the guinea-pig, the owl, the pigeon, the starling, the sparrow, the rook, and the fox, each enjoying, as far as can be enjoyed in confinement, its respective mode of life, in the company of the others j-the weak without fear, and the strong without the desire to injure. It is impossible to imagine any prettier exhibition of kindness than is here shewn ;the rabbit and the pigeon playfully contending for a lock of hay to make up their nests ;the sparrow sometimes perched on the head of the cat, and sometimes on that of the owl ;and the mice playing about with perfect indifference to the presence of the cat, hawk, or owl. See Library of Entertaining Knowledge.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330202473
• ISBN 13: 9781330202470
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90