. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 210 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. The respectable guild of tailors, indeed, were wont to attri- bute to their mystery an antiquity surpassing that of any other handicraft, and, on the strength of a certain passage in Genesis, claimed Adam as the first tailor. As to the smiths and musi- cians, the tailors looked down upon them as of comparatively recent origin, and considered even the mysterious order of Free- masons as modern upstarts. Had they been moderately skill
. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 210 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. The respectable guild of tailors, indeed, were wont to attri- bute to their mystery an antiquity surpassing that of any other handicraft, and, on the strength of a certain passage in Genesis, claimed Adam as the first tailor. As to the smiths and musi- cians, the tailors looked down upon them as of comparatively recent origin, and considered even the mysterious order of Free- masons as modern upstarts. Had they been moderately skilled in ornithology, they might have claimed a still older origin, on the grounds that, long before man came on the earth, the needle and the thread were used for sewing two objects THE TAILOR BIKD^. The wonderful little bird, whose portrait is accurately given in the accompanying illustration, is popularly known by the appropriate title of Tailor Bird, its scientific name being Or- thofomus longicaudus. The manner in which it constructs its pensile nest is very singular. Choosing a convenient leaf, gene- rally one which hangs from the end of a slender twig, it pierces a row of holes along each edge, using its beak in the same manner that a shoemaker uses his awl, the two instruments. 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 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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