Four feet, wings, and fins . sings thesweetest when she is dying ? asked Frank. So the ancients thought. But the tame or muteswan is unable to utter a sound, save a hiss on beingprovoked. The swan is able to swim faster than aman can walk, and when they are flying before astrong wind, proceed at the rate of a hundred milesan hour. They are also very strong, being able toknock a man down with a single stroke of a make their nests the same as wild geese andducks, among the grass and reeds. The little youngones are called cygnets. The swan is said to livea hundred years. Now, children,
Four feet, wings, and fins . sings thesweetest when she is dying ? asked Frank. So the ancients thought. But the tame or muteswan is unable to utter a sound, save a hiss on beingprovoked. The swan is able to swim faster than aman can walk, and when they are flying before astrong wind, proceed at the rate of a hundred milesan hour. They are also very strong, being able toknock a man down with a single stroke of a make their nests the same as wild geese andducks, among the grass and reeds. The little youngones are called cygnets. The swan is said to livea hundred years. Now, children, what can you tell me about theduck tribe ? I know they are Oviparous Vertebrate animals,said Frank. I know they are Mpeds, two-footed, said May= 329 KENNY S GOSLINGS. I was just thinking whether they were carniver-ous or herbiverous said, Frank. Birds, Hke quadrupeds, are distinguished intokinds or classes, graniverous and carniverousr Then the duck tribe ^ graniverous, as they feedprincipally upon grain, said May. ^.../. Write this in your books : Birds are dividedinto six orders, namely — Rapacious birds. Passer-ines, Climbers, Gallinaceous, Waders and Palmipedes,the latter being the same as Natatores, It is veryeasy to remember the word Palmipede, when we KENNY S GOSLINGS. think of its origin, for it comes from palma, thepalm of the hand, and pedes, foot, and means broad-footed, having the toes connected by a membrane,just adapting the duck tribe for swimming. Pat, have you any chickens ? asked Grace, turn-ing the subject. * O, yis, mum, stacks of em, runnin all aroundthe barn and door-yard, sure, now. Will you goand see em, mum ? Not to-day, I guess. We will come, sometime,however. But we will eat lunch here, and you andKenny shall be our guests, if you will. Then wemust go into the wood to gather mosses. S31
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