. Four feet, two feet, and no feet; or, Furry and feathery pets, and how they live. Animal behavior. 216 A BAD NEIGHBOU. Maidie and her papa had just come in from the station. They ran to see what was the matter; and it made them both laugh heartily to see cook so frightened by a harmless eel. If Minnikin went fishing after that she did it for her own amuse- ment, for Maidie did not let her go hungry any more. I don't think, however, that cook ever knew that pussy meant to return good for A BAD NEIGHBOR. The next time you go to Africa, my dears, be sure to bring me back a lepidosiren, w
. Four feet, two feet, and no feet; or, Furry and feathery pets, and how they live. Animal behavior. 216 A BAD NEIGHBOU. Maidie and her papa had just come in from the station. They ran to see what was the matter; and it made them both laugh heartily to see cook so frightened by a harmless eel. If Minnikin went fishing after that she did it for her own amuse- ment, for Maidie did not let her go hungry any more. I don't think, however, that cook ever knew that pussy meant to return good for A BAD NEIGHBOR. The next time you go to Africa, my dears, be sure to bring me back a lepidosiren, will you? I am very anxious to have one. Lep-i-do-si-ren! Can't you say that? Well, it is rather a hard word. You may call it mud-fish instead, if you like that better, though I am not sure that it is a fish. There is a difference of opinion on the subject of this creature. One very learned man, with green spectacles, calls it a fish; an- other, whose spectacles are blue (and who is bald besides, having tliought all the hair off his head), vows that it is a reptile. Xow, I don't wear spectacles, and I am not bald, — so really I cannot pretend to decide the matter; but suppose you and I just please ourselves, and call it the mud-fish, whether or no. There is some reason for that name, because at home it lives in the — "Mud! ! " says Billy. Quite so. What an mtelligent child you are, William! But now about finding one for me. When you are in Africa, as I was saying, and in some very hot place, — say in Tinibuctoo, where your Uncle Simon lives, — you must know how to look for the 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 Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943. Boston, Estes and Lauriat
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