Four-footed Americans and their kin . the Doctor smiled, but saidnothing. Uncle Roy, persisted Dodo, after a pause, wontyou do as you did with the birds, and tell us aboutthe wild American animals instead of about menageriebeasts, and then make us a book about them ? Theremust be as many as fifty kinds of usual animals inAmerica, counting all those in the west country. Imso tired of menagerie beasts — L is for Lion who roars in his rage,T is for Tiger who snarls in his cage, that was on my picture blocks when I was a little had picture books of Cockatoos and other strangebirds, too, bu
Four-footed Americans and their kin . the Doctor smiled, but saidnothing. Uncle Roy, persisted Dodo, after a pause, wontyou do as you did with the birds, and tell us aboutthe wild American animals instead of about menageriebeasts, and then make us a book about them ? Theremust be as many as fifty kinds of usual animals inAmerica, counting all those in the west country. Imso tired of menagerie beasts — L is for Lion who roars in his rage,T is for Tiger who snarls in his cage, that was on my picture blocks when I was a little had picture books of Cockatoos and other strangebirds, too, but they never seemed to mean anythinguntil you told us about our American birds. You are right, Dodo, said the Doctor, and you 30 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS have given me some new ideas for my surprise. Yes,there is a surprise hiding somewhere near ! We areto have a winter camp here at the farm, and thestories told at the campfire shall all be about four-footed Americans, with a few about some no-footedand wing-handed ones thrown in. IV. CLIMBING THE ANIMAL TREE PLENDID! cried Nat and Rap to-gether, as soon as they realized whatDr. Roy said. When shall we havethe stories ? What is a campfire ? Is it madeof logs or coal ? asked Dodo. Where are you going to havethe camp? Here in the wonderroom ? asked Olive, who was asmuch surprised as her cousins. What are no-footed Americans, fishes ? persistedDodo. Fishes have no feet, and yet these no-footed beastsare not fishes. The Americans you shall hear aboutwill all be our blood brothers, the Mammals — thehighest branch of the animal tree, the one that Isaid has so many smaller branches that it seems almostlike a whole tree by itself. M — mammals; m — milk, said Dodo, proud atnot having forgotten. But, Uncle Roy, we cantsee all these M — mammals outdoors, as we did thebirds, and there arent any here in your wonder can Ave tell how they look ? You will probably see some of the smaller ones 81 32 FOUR-FOOTED AMEBIC AN S this
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