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THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK
FOR CHILDREN
BOOKS BY
THORNTON W. BURGESS
BEDTIME STORY-BOOKS
1. The Adventuees of Eeddy Fox
2. The Adventures op Johnny Chtjck
3. The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
4. The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
6. The Adventures of Mr. Mocker
6. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
7. The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
8. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
9. The Adventures of Chatterer, the Red
Squirrel
10. The Adventures of Sammy Jay
11. The Adventures of Buster Bear
12. The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
13. The Adventures of Prickly Porky
14. The Adventures of Old Man Coyote
15. The Adventures op Paedy the Beaver
16. The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
17. The Adventures of Bobby Coon
18 The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
19. The Adventures of Bob "White
20. The Adventures of Ol' Mistah Buzzard
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BY
THORNTON W. BURGESS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES
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LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1920
pHE NEW YORK
IFUEIIC LIBRARY
TiLDEN FOUWDATJONS,
Copyright, 1920,
NortnooU Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Gushing Co.
Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
TO THE CAUSE OF WILD LIFE IN AMERICA,
ESPECIALLY THE MAMMALS
MANY OF WHICH ARE SERIOUSLY
THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.
PREFACE
The cordial reception given the Burgess Bird
Book for Children, together with numerous let-
Thornton W. Burgess
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CONTENTS
PAOE
Preface vii
Rabbit.
Sewellel.
[xi]
Contents
CHAPTER FAQE
XI A Fellow with a Thousand Spears 90
More about the Porcupine.
CHAPTER PAGE
XXn An Independent Family 193
The Common Skunk, Hog-nosed or Badger
Skunk and Little Spotted Skunk.
,
also called Coon Cat and Bassaris.
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
XXXn Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School . 277
The Black Bear and his habits.
Index 355
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Thunderfoot the Bison .... Frontispiece
PAGE
Peter Rabbit 6
Jumper the Hare 6
The Marsh Rabbit 14
Snow White the Arctic Hare 22
Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel 30
Rusty the Fox Squirrel .30
Jack Rabbit
The
Timmy
California Ground Squirrel
the Flying Squirrel
..... 38
38
46
Chatterer the Red Squirrel 46
Striped Chipmunk 54
Seek Seek the Spermophile 54
Johnny Chuck 62
Whistler the Hoary Marmot 62
Yap Yap the Prairie
Grubby the Pocket Gopher
Little Chief the Pika
Dog
.......78 70
70
PAGE
Danny Mouse
.txeadow 126
Nibbier the House Mouse 134
Robber the Brown Rat 134
Longfoot the Kangaroo Rat . . . . . . 142
Digger the Badger 142
Teeny Weeny the Shrew .150
The Short-tailed Shrew 150
Miner the Mole 158
The Star-nosed Mole 158
Flitter the Bat .166
Tii3 Little Brown Bat 166
The Little Spotted Skunk 174
Jimmy Skunk 174
BillyMink 182
Shadow the Weasel 182
The Black-footed Ferret 190
Glutton the Wolverine 198
Pekan the Fisher 198
Spite theMarten 206
Little Joe Otter 206
ReddyFox 214
The Gray Fox 214
The Arctic Fox 222
The Blue Fox 222
Howler the Wolf 230
Old Man Coyote 230
Tufty the Lynx 238
Yowler the Bob Cat 238
Puma the Panther 246
The Jaguar 254
The Ring-tailed or Civet Cat 262
Bobby Coon
Unc' Billy Possum
Buster Bear the Black Bear
....... 270
270
278
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List of Illustrations
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Silvertip the Grizzly Bear 286
Bigfoot the Alaskan Brown Bear 294
Snow King the Polar Bear 302
Lightfoot the Deer 310
Forkhorn the Mule Deer 310
Bugler the Elk 318
Flathorns the Moose 326
Wanderhoof the Caribou 330
Fleetfoot the Antelope 334
Longcoat the Musk Ox 338
Bighorn the Mountain Sheep 342
Billy the Mountain Goat 342
Piggy the Collared Peccary 346
Hardshell the Armadillo 350
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CHAPTER I
PETER RABBIT. The familiar Cottontail Rabbit whom everybody knows and
loves.
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coat.
Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
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CHATTERER AND HAPPY JACK JOIN
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Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
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THE SQUIRRELS OF THE TREES
Peter Rabbit found Johnny Chuck sitting on
his doorstep, sunning himself. Peter was quite
out of breath because he had hurried so. *'Do
"
you know that you are a Squirrel, Johnny Chuck .?
he panted.
Johnny slowly turned head and looked at
his
Peter as if he thought Peter had suddenly gone
crazy. "What are you talking about, Peter
Rabbit ? I 'm not a Squirrel I 'm a Wood- ;
chuck," he replied.
"Just the same, you are a Squirrel," retorted
Peter. "The Woodchucks belong to the Squirrel
family. Old Mother Nature says so, and if she
says so, it is so. You 'd better join our school,
Johnny Chuck, and learn a little about your own
relatives."
Johnny Chuck blinked his eyes and for a minute
or two could n't find a word to say. He knew that
if Peter were telling the truth as to what Old
is much of a tail."
At once Chatterer's quick temper flared up
and he began to scold. But Old Mother Nature
silenced him and told Happy Jack to go on. "He
spends more of his time in the trees than I do,"
continued Happy Jack, "and is especially fond
of pine trees and other cone-bearing trees. He
likes the deeper parts of the Green Forest better
than I do, though he seems to feel just as much at
home on the edge of the Green Forest, especially
if it is near a farm where he can steal corn."
Chatterer started to scold again but was si-
JACK RABBIT. His long legs and long ears show him to be a Hare, not a
Rabbit.
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prairies of the West.
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TWO QUEER LITTLE HAYMAKERS
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PRICKLY PORKY AND GRUBBY GOPHER
fast. His legs are short, and his front legs and
feet are very stout and strong. They are armed
with very long, strong claws and it is with these
and the help of his big cutting teeth that Grubby
digs. He throws the earth under him and then
kicks it behind him with his hind feet. When he
has quite a pile behind him he turns around, and
with his front feet and head pushes it along to a
tunnel and then up to the surface of the
little side
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There was a shuffling and rattling and grunting,
and Prickly Porky climbed up on an old stump,
looking very peevish and much out of sorts. He
had come to school much against his will.
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A FELLOW WITH A THOUSAND SPEARS
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should.
Old Mother Nature seated herself on one end
of Paddy's dam and called the school to order.
Just as she did so a brown head popped out of
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JERRY MUSKRAT. He is the largest of American Rats. Note how his tail is
flattened.
A Lumberman and Engineer
the time?"
Paddy chuckled. "No, Peter," said he. "In
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WHITEFOOT THE WOOD MOUSE. One of the prettiest members of ifie
Mouse family.
TRADER IHE WOOD RAT. Ihis is the Eastern form of this interestmg
branch of the Rat family.
A Lumberman and Engineer
the spring and summer I like to play and go on
exploring trips. But when it is time to work, I
work every minute. I believe in working with
all my might when it is time to work, and playing
the same way in play -time."
Old Mother Nature nodded in approval. "Quite
right," said she. "Quite right. Are there any
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cold the water is. You have all seen his house in
the Smiling Pool. He builds it in much the same
way that Paddy builds his, but instead of sticks
he cuts and uses rushes. Of course it is not nearly
as large as Paddy's house, because Jerry is him-
self so much smaller. It is arranged much the
same, with a comfortable bedroom and one or
more passages down to deep water. In winter
Jerry spends much of his time in this house, going
out only for food. Then he lives chiefly on lily
roots and roots of other water plants, digging
them up and taking them back to his house to
eat. When the ice is clear you can sometimes
see him swimming below."
"I know," spoke up Peter Rabbit. "Once I
was crossing the Smiling Pool on the ice and saw
him right under me."
"Jerry doesn't build dams, but he sometimes
digs little canals along the bottom where the
water is n't deep enough to suit him," continued
Old Mother Nature. "Sometimes in the winter
Jerry and Mrs. Jerry share their home with two
or three friends. If there is a good bank Jerry
usually has another home in that. He makes the
entrance under water and then tunnels back
and up for some distance, where he builds a snug
little bedroom just below the surface of the ground
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A TRADER AND A HANDSOME FELLOW
NIMBLEHEELS THE JUMPING MOUSE. Look for this pretty little fellow
in old weedy fields.
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under the snow.
A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
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TWO UNLIKE LITTLE COUSINS
Peter.
"At the very idea of me with my short legs
trying to keep up with you," replied Danny. "I
wish you would up and take a good look all
sit
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Danny's northern cousins and nimbleheels
Weasel family.
Danny^s Northern Cousins and Nimhleheels
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THREE LITTLE REDCOATS AND SOME OTHERS
With Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, Danny
Meadow Mouse and Nimbleheels the Jumping
Mouse attending school, the Mouse family was
well represented, but when school opened the
morning after Nimbleheels had made his sudden
and startling appearance, there was still another
present. It was Piney the Pine Mouse. White-
foot, who knew him, had hunted him up and
brought him along.
*'I thought you would n't mind if Piney came,"
explained Whitefoot.
*'I 'm glad he has come," replied Old Mother
Nature. "It is much better to see a thing than
merely to be told about it, and now you have a
chance to see for yourselves the differences be-
tween two cousins very closely related, Danny
Meadow Mouse and Piney the Pine Mouse. What
difference do you see, Happy Jack Squirrel?"
"Piney is a little smaller than Danny, though
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MINER THE MOLE. This shows how he uses his spade-hke hands in digging.
THE STAR-NOSED MOLE. His nose is one of the oddest in the world.
Mice with Pockets, and Others
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Midget the Silky Pocket Mouse is one of the
smallest animals in all the Great World, so small
that Whitefoot the Wood Mouse is a giant com-
pared with him. He weighs less than an ounce
and is a dear little fellow. His back and sides are
yellow, and beneath he is white. He has quite
long hind legs and a long tail, and these show at
once that he is a jumper. In each cheek is a
pocket opening from the outside, and these pockets
are lined with hair. He is called Silky Pocket
Mouse because of the fineness and softness of
his coat. He has some larger cousins, one of
them being a little bigger than Nibbler the House
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TEENY WEENY AND HIS COUSIN
''Of course Old Mother Nature knows, but
just the same it is hard for me not to beheve that
Teeny Weeny is a member of the Mouse family,"
said Happy Jack Squirrel to Peter Rabbit, as they
scampered along to school. "I never have had
a real good look at him, but I 've had glimpses
of him lots of times and always supposed him a
little Mouse with a short tail. It is hard to be-
lieve that he is n't."
"I hope Old Mother Nature will put him where
we can get a good look at him," replied Peter.
"Perhaps when you really see him he won't look
so much like a Mouse."
When all had arrived Old Mother Nature began
the morning lesson at once. "You have learned
about all the families in the order of Rodents,"
said she, "so now we will take up another and
much smaller order called Insectivora. I wonder
if any of you can guess what that means."
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FLITTER THE BAT. This is the Red Bat, also called Tree Bat.
Hare.
"Several," was the prompt response. "Blarina
the Short-tailed Shrew, also called Mole Shrew, is
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FOUR BUSY LITTLE MINERS
Scampering along on his way to school and
thinking of nothing so uninteresting as watching
his steps, Peter Rabbit stubbed his toes. Yes,
sir, Peter stubbed his toes. With a little exclama-
tion of impatience he turned to see what he had
stumbled over. was a little ridge where the
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surface of the groundhad been raised a trifle since
Peter had passed that way the day before.
Peter chuckled. "Now isn't that funny?"
he demanded of no one at all, for he was quite
alone. Then he answered himself. "It certainly
is," said he. "Here I am on my way to learn
something about Miner the Mole, and I trip over
one of the queer little ridges he is forever making.
It was n't here yesterday, so that means that he is
at work right around here now. Hello, I thought
sol"
Peter had been looking along that little ridge
and had discovered that it ended only a short
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BILLY MINK.. [ ie is equally at home on land or in the water.
SHADOW THE WEASEL. In his winter coat of white he is called the Erminft.
CHAPTER XXI
FLITTER THE BAT AND HIS FAMILY
Peter.
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Flitter the Bat and His Family
right now.
"As all of you who have watched him know.
Flitter is a swift flier. This is because his wings
are long and narrow. They are made for speed.
I want you to know that the Bats are among the
most wonderful of all my little people. Few if
any birds can equal them in the air because of
their wonderful ability to twist and turn. They
are masters of the art of flying. Moreover, they
make no sound with their wings, something
which only the Owls among birds can boast of.
"You all saw the three babies clinging to Mrs.
Flitter. Most Bats have but two babies at a
time, occasionally only one, but the Red Bat and
his larger cousin, the Hoary Bat, have three or
four. Mrs. Flitter carries her babies about with
her until they are quite big. When they are too
large to be carried she leaves them hanging in a
tree while she hunts for her meals.
"Flitter has many cousins. One of these is the
Little Brown Bat, one of the smallest members
of the family and found all over the country.
He brown all over. He is sometimes called
is
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AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY
Just as Old Mother Nature asked who they
should learn about next, Happy Jack Squirrel
spied some one coming down the Lone Little
Path. "See who 's coming!" cried Happy Jack.
Everybody turned to look down the Lone Little
Path. There, ambling along in the most matter-
of-fact and unconcerned way imaginable, came a
certain small person who was dressed wholly in
black and white.
"Hello, Jimmy Skunk," cried Chatterer the
Red Squirrel. "What are you doing over here
in the Green Forest.^"
Jimmy Skunk looked up and grinned. It was
a slow, good-natured grin. "Hello, everybody,"
said he,"I thought I would just amble over here
and see your school. I suppose all you fellows
you will think
are getting so wise that pretty soon
you know all there is to know. Have any of you
seen any fat Beetles around here?"
Just then Jimmy noticed Old Mother Nature
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SHADOW AND HIS FAMILY
the eyes. He
most frequently found in Prairie-
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Two Famous Swimmers
ever happens to be easiest to get suits me. I am
rather fond of and that 's one reason that I
fish,
THE ARCTIC FOX. His coat is all white in the winter months.
THE BLUE FOX. This is really a color phase of the Arctic Fox.
Two Famous Swimmers
Nature. "He dearly loves to travel up and down
the Laughing Brook, even for long distances.
Wherever there is plenty of driftwood and rub-
bish, Billy is quite at home, being so slender he
can slip under all kinds of places and into all sorts
of holes. Quick as he is on land, he is not so quick
as his Cousin Shadow and good swimmer as he
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Otter. I There
think this will do for to-day.
are two other members of the Weasel family and
these, like Little Joe and Billy Mink, are con-
tinually being hunted for their fur coats. I will
tell you about them to-morrow."
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CHAPTER XXVI
SPITE THE MARTEN AND PEKAN THE FISHER
*'The two remaining members of the Weasel
family none of you have ever seen," began Old
Mother Nature, when she opened school at the
old meeting place in the Green Forest the morn-
ing after their visit to the Smiling Pool. "You
have never seen them because they live in the deep
forests of the Far North. But were you living
up there, you would know them, and the dread
of them would seldom be out of your mind. One
is called Spite the Marten and the other Pekan
the Fisher.
"Spite the Marten is also called the Pine Mar-
ten and the American Sable, and he is one of the
handsomest members of the Weasel family.
Shadow the Weasel can climb, but he spends most
of his time on the ground. Jimmy Skunk and
Digger the Badger are not climbers at all. Little
Joe Otter spends most of his time in the water.
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OLD MAN COYOTE. The Prairie Wolf who is as clever as Reddy Fox.
Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
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REDDY FOX JOINS THE SCHOOL
When school was called to order the following
morning not one was missing. You see, with the
exception of Jimmy Skunk and Prickly Porky,
there was not one in whose life Reddy Fox did not
YOWLER THE BOB CAT. The Bay Lynx or common Wild Cat.
Reddy Fox Joins the School
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OLD MAN COYOTE AND HOWLER THE WOLF
in pieces of meat
where Howler and his friends
left
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THE JAGUAR. The largest and handsomest of the cats of America.
CHAPTER XXIX
YOWLER AND HIS COUSIN TUFTY
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THE RING-TAILED OR CIVET CAT. He is neither a Cat nor a Gvet but
a Bassaris.
CHAPTER XXX
SOME BIG AND LITTLE CAT COUSINS
"Puma the Panther," began Old Mother Na-
ture, "is the largest member of the Cat family
in this country, with the exception of one which
is found only in the extreme Southwest. Puma
is also called Mountain Lion, Cougar and Painter.
You all know how Black Pussy looks. If Black
Pussy could grow to be over eight feet long and
be given a yellowish-brown coat, whitish under-
neath, she would look very much like Puma the
Panther. Unlike Yowler the Bob Cat and Tufty
the Lynx, Puma has a long tail, — just such a
round tail as Black Pussy has. Being so large,
Puma is of great strength, and he has all the
grace and quickness in movement of a true Cat.
As you yesterday, there was a time when
I told
Puma lived in the East. In fact, he was once
in nearly all parts of this great country where there
were forests. But became settled
as the country
by man, Puma was driven out, and now his
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BOBBY COON ARRIVES
Old Mother Nature was just about to open
school when a sHght noise up the Lone Little
Path drew all eyes in that direction. There,
shuffling down the Lone Little Path, was a queer-
looking fellow. No one needed more than one
look at that funny, sharp, black and white face
of his to recognize him.
" Bobby Coon !
" shouted Peter Rabbit. " Are
UNC* BILLY POSSUM. The Opossum is the only Marsupial in North America.
Bobby Coon Arrives
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eagerly.
" Not all winter, but a good part of it," replied
Bobby. "I don't turn in until the weather gets
pretty cold, and it is hard to find anything to eat.
But after the snow I 'm usually ready to
first
Mother Nature.
" I did n't know I had you mentioned that
until
fellow with the ringed tail you said you would
tell us about. I did n't know there was anybody
with a tail like mine, and I would like to know
about it," replied Bobby.
" He is n't exactly a Raccoon, but he is more
nearly related to you than any one else," replied
Old Mother Nature. " His tail shows that. Aside
from this, he is nothing like you at all. He is
called the Ring-tailed Cat. But he does n't look
any more like a cat than he does like you, and he
is n't related to the Cat family at all. He has
several names. He is called the Bassaris, the
Civet Cat, Ring-tailed Cat, Coon Cat and Caco-
mixtle. Instead of being thick and clumsy-look-
ing, as is Bobby here, he is long and rather slender,
with a yellowish-brown coat, somewhat grayish
on the back and whitish underneath. His head
is rather small, long and beautifully shaped. His
ears are of good size and very pretty. In some
ways he looks like Reddy Fox. But the really
beautiful thing about him is his tail. It is nearly
as long as his body, thick and beautifully marked
with black and white bands.
" He is quick and graceful in his movements,
and, like Bobby, prefers to be abroad at night.
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BUSTER BEAR NEARLY BREAKS UP SCHOOL
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have a tail?"
"Well, have you?" demanded Peter Rabbit
bluntly.
" What do you think ? " asked Buster.
did n't get his eyes open for forty days. It was
two months before he poked his head outside the
den in which he was born, to find out what the
Great World was Hke. AX, that time he was n't
much bigger than Peter Rabbit, and he and his
twin sister were as Hvely a pair of youngsters and
as full of mischief as any Bears the Green Forest
has ever seen. You might tell us. Buster, what
you live on."
Buster's eyes snapped. **
I live on anything I
can eat, and I can eat most everything. I sup-
pose a lot of people think I live almost wholly on
the little people who are my neighbors, but that
is a mistake. do catch Mice when I am lucky
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enough to find them where I can dig them out,
and they certainly are good eating."
At this Whitefoot the Wood Mouse and Danny
Meadow Mouse hastily scurried farther away,
and Buster's eyes twinkled with mischief. " Of
course I don't mind a Rabbit either, if I am lucky
enough to catch one," said he, and Peter Rabbit
quickly backed off a few steps. " In fact I like
meat of any kind," continued Buster. " But the
greater part of my food is n't meat at all. In
the spring I dig up roots of different kinds, and
eat tender grass shoots and some bark and twigs
from young trees. When the insects appear they
help out wonderfully. I am very fond of Ants.
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I pull over all the old logs and tear to pieces all
the old stumps I can find, and lick up the Ants
and their eggs that I am almost sure to find there.
Almost any kind of insect tastes good to me if
there are enough of them. I love to find and
dig open the nests of Wasps that make their homes
in the ground, and of course I suppose you all
know that there is nothing in the world I like
better than honey. If I can find a Bee nest I am
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SILVERTIP THE GRIZZLY BEAR. Famous for his strength and fierceness he
has been hunted until now he must be protected to preserve the species.
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BUSTER bear's BIG COUSINS
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BIGFOOT THE ALASKAN BROWN BEAR. Not only is he the largest of
all Bears but he is the largest flesh eating mammal in the world.
Unc Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
handy tails.'*
" Handiest tails ever was," declared Unc' Billy.
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Don't know what Ah ever would do without
mah tail."
he ;
" Ah done get a dreadful scare the last time
Ah was up there, and Ah reckons Ah '11 stay away
from there for a while."
"What else do you eat?" asked Old Mother
Nature.
" Anything," replied Unc' Billy. " Ah reckons
Ah ain't no way s particular, — insects, roots. Frogs,
SNOW KING THE POLAR BEAR. He is monarch of the Far North in the
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tail, his mule-like ears and the forked tines of his antlers.
Lighffoot, Blacktail and Forkhom
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BUGLER, FLATHORNS AND WANDERHOOF
Wapiti.
" Bugler found only in the great mountains
is
ready to fight.
" When the snows of winter come, many families
get together and form great bands. Then they
move down from the mountains in search of shelter
and food. W^hen a winter is very bad, many
starve to death, for man has fenced in and made
into farms much of the land where the elk once
found ample food for winter.
" But big as is Bugler the Elk, there is a cousin
who is bigger, the biggest of all the Deer family.
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Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderlioof
BUGLER THE ELK. To speak of him correctly you should call him Wapiti
instead of Elk.
Bugler, Flathorns and Waiiderhoof
^
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CHAPTER XXXVII
THUNDERFOOT, FLEETFOOT AND LONGCOAT
" Whoremembers the name of the order to
which members of the Deer family belong?"
all
Hare together.
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FLATHORNS THE MOOSE. He is the largest member of the Deer family.
Thundcrfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat
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Woodland Caribou, mem-
WANDERHOOF THE CARIBOU. This is the a
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Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
^^ < y*i^^.
FLEET! C)U 1 1 Ht AN
. : fclLOPE. Unless rigidly protected this beautiful
will soon become extinct.
Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
!
to learn
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CHAPTER XXXIX
PIGGY AND HARDSHELL
LONGCOAT THE MUSK OX. He is related to both cattle and sheep and his
home is in the Arctic regions.
Piggy and Hardshell
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Piggy and Hardshell
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BIGHORN THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP. His sure-footedness is the marvel
BILLY THE MOUNTAIN GOAT. His home is high in the great mountains
at will.
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The Burgess Animal Book for Children
" His tongue is long and sticky. This is so that
he can run it out for some distance and sweep up
the Ants and insects on which he largely lives.
His eyesight and hearing are not very good, and
having such a heavy, stiff coat he is a poor runner.
But he is a good digger. This means, of course,
that he makes his home in a hole in the ground.
When frightened he makes for this, but if over-
taken by an enemy he rolls up and is
into a ball
safe from all save those with big and strong enough
teeth to break through the joints of his shell. He
eats some vegetable matter and is accused of
eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds, and of
dead decayed flesh he may find. However, his
food consists chiefly of Ants, insects of various
kinds, and worms. He is a harmless little fellow
and interesting because he is so queer. He is
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CHAPTEE XL
THE MAMMALS OF THE SEA
It was the last day of Old Mother Nature's
and when jolly, round,
school in the Green Forest,
bright Mr. Sun had climbed high enough in the
blue, blue sky to peep down through the trees,
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HARDSHELL THE ARMADILLO. This is the nine-banded Armadillo of the
southwest.
The Mammals of the Sea
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INDEX
Antelope
Pronghorn ; Fleetfoot ; (Antilocapra americana) 326-328
Antelope Jack, 22-23
Armadillo
Nine-banded ; Hardshell ; (Dasypus novemcincta) 342-344
Six-banded, 343
Three-banded, 343
Badger
American ; Digger ; (Taxidea taxus) 202-207
Bandy the Banded Lemming, 141-143
Bassaris, 275-276
Bat
Big Brown ; House ; Carohna ;
(Eptesicus fuscus) 191
Big-eared; (Corynorhinus macrotis) 192
Big-eared Desert (Antrozous palHdus) 192;
Black Buster
; ; (Ursus americanus) 277-286
Cinnamon, 280
Grizzly ; Silvertip ; (Ursus horribiUs) 287-290
Polar ; Snow King ; (Thalarctos maritimus) 290-293
Beaver
American; Paddy; (Castor canadensis) 99-111
Mountain; Boomer; Chehalis; Sewellel; Showt'l; Stubtail
'
(Aplodontia rufa phsea) 77-81
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Index
Carcajou, 207-209
Caribou
Barren Ground ; (Rangifer arcticus) 321
Woodland; Wanderhoof; (Rangifer caribou) 319-321
Cat
Bob Wild Catamount, 255-260
; ;
Ring-tailed Civet
; Coon Cacomixtle
; Bassaris ; ; ; (Bas-
sariscus astutus) 275-276
Sneak, 263
Tiger, 266-267
Chatterer theRed Squirrel, 28-34, 37-44
Chipmunk
Rock Squirrel Striped Chipmunk (Tamias
; striatus) 34, 46-49
Cony, 73-77
Coyote, 248-253
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Index
Elk
American; Wapiti; Bugler; (Cervus canadensis) 314-316
Ermine, 211-217
Eyra, 267
91-92, 232-233
Fla thorns the Moose, 317-319
Fleetfoot the Antelope, 326-328
Flitter the Bat, 183-190
Forkhorn the Mule Deer, 312-313
Fox
Arctic ; (Alopex lagopus) 245-246
Black, 242
Blue ;
(Alopex lagopus pribilofensis) 246
Cross, 242
Desert ; (Vulpes macrotis) 245
Gray ; Tree ; (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) 244
Kit ;
(Vulpes velox) 244-245
Red ; Reddy ;
(Vulpes fulva) 1-3, 235-243
SUver, 242
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Index
Hare — Cont
Prairie, 20-21
Swamp Swamp Rabbit
; ; (Lepus aquaticus) 18-19
Howler the Wolf, 250-253
Lemming
Banded; Bandy; (Dicrostonyx nelsoni) 141-143
Brown; (Lemmus alascensis) 141-143
Lightfoot the Deer, 302-311
Lion
Mountain; Cougar; Panther; Painter; Sneak Cat; Puma;
(Felis couguar) 263-265
Little Chief Hare, 73-77
Little Joe Otter, 223-228
LittleRobber the Cotton Rat, 120-121
Longcoat the Musk Ox, 328-330
Longfoot the Kangaroo Rat, 124-127
Lynx
Bay ; Bob Cat ; Catamount ; Wild Cat ; Yowler ; (Lynx ruffus)
255-260
Canada; Loup Cervier; Lucivee; Tufty; (Lynx canadensis)
260-262
Manatee
Sea Cow ; (Trichechus latirostris) 351-352
Marmot
American Ground Hog Woodchuck ; Johnny Chuck
; ;
; (Mar-
mota monax) 31, 36-37, 56-65
Gray Hoary Whistler (Marmota caligata) 65-67
; ; ;
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Index
Marten
Pine; American Sable ; Spite; (Martes americana) 229-232
Midget the Silky Pocket Mouse, 159-160
Miner the Mole, 173-180
Mink
American ; Billy ;
(Mustela vison) 218-223
Mole
Brewer's; Hairy-tailed; (Parascalops breweri) 181
Common ; Miner ;
(Scalops aquaticus) 173-180
Oregon (Scapanus townsendi) 181
;
Muskrat, 112-116
Ocelot
Tiger Cat ; (Felis pardalis) 266-267
Old Man Coyote, 248-250, 253
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Index
Opossum
Virginia; Possum; Unc' Billy Possum; (Didelphis virginiana)
294-301
Otter
Canadian ; Little Joe ; (Lutra canadensis) 223-228
Sea ;
(Latax lutris) 346-347
Rabbit
Antelope Jack ; (Lepus alleni) 22-23
Cottontail ; Brush ; Gray ; Peter ; (Sylvilagus floridanus) 1-17
Jack ; (Lepus californicus) 23-25
Marsh ; (Sylvilagus palustris) 4-7, 15-16
Snowshoe, 9-17
Wliite-tailed Jack ; (Lepus campestr is) 20-21
Raccoon
Bobby Coon; (Procy on lotor), 268-274
Rat
Black; (Mus rattus) 118
BrowTi; House; Norway; Wharf; Robber; (Rattus norvegicus)
116-119
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Index
Rat Cont
Cotton; Little Robber (Sigmodon hispidus) 120-121 ;
Salamander, 84
Sea Cow, 351-352
Sea Lion
Barking ; California ; (Zalophus californianus) 348
Fur Seal ; Sea Bear ;
(Callorhinus alascanus) 349
Seal
Steller ;
(Eumetopias jubata) 348-349
Alaska Fur, 349
Elephant (Mirounga angustirostris) 35
;
Ground, 4^51
Kaibab (Sciurus kaibabensis) 44-45
;
Walrus
Pacific ; (Odobenus obesus) 347-34S
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With full-color illustrations of 58 birds from dratoings by
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Crown 8vo. Cloth. $3.00 net.
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Mr. Burg'ess well acquainted with Happy Jack Squirrel'
is
thrifty habits, and tells all about thera in this first book.