Identifier: birdsnature111902chic (find matches)Title: Birds and natureYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors: Subjects: Birds Natural historyPublisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, PublisherContributing Library: Smithsonian LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:rise and an-ger, he was greeted with a cry of painand alarm. The mistress who shouldhave praised rated him well, the handthat should have stroked his smooth coatwrenched his prize from him. In hisanger he tried to scratch her in return,but she had been too quick for him, andRobin was saved. Tenderly he was laidin a bed of cotton and placed on an upperveranda, once more in the sweet, balmyair. Cautiously he lifted his head, andas no shining green eyes or sharp pawwere to be seen, ventured to hop to theedge of the basket in which his kind pre-server had placed him. One more lookaround and he stretched out his wingsand soared away. Oh, my dear Rob! I heard your cry.Where have you been? Do tell me allabout it! exclaimed Mrs. Robin on Mr.Robins return, and he, in a most graphicmanner, granted her request; but, as wealready know all about it, we wont stayto listen. As to Tertius, he has decided that towin his way to fame he must confinehimself in the future to a war on mice.M. Leila Dawson.Text Appearing After Image:THE DOMESTIC CAT. In the old, old writings of the sacredSanskrit language, that ancient languageof the Hindoos, nearly two thousandyears ago reference was made to the Do-mestic Cat. And so we know that Catsexisted long ago and are a very ancientanimal. But by means of pictures weare able trace their origin to still earliertimes, for the Egyptian monumentsabound in pictured Cats, and, strangeryet, in Egypt are found mummies of boththe domestic and common jungle Cat.How very important it must have beenconsidered! Think of burying the bodyof every forlorn, luckless Cat, and thenrealize the pains taken, not only to giveit a burial, but to preserve it for ages tocome; and this the Egyptians did, fordoubtless it was to them the most sacredof all sacred animals. Herodotus says that when one of theirhouses was on fire they first thought ofsaving the Cat, and afterward consideredthe matter of putting out the fire; alsowhen a Cat died they cut off their ownhair as a sign of mourning. When a perNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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