Four-footed Americans and their kin . 236 Grizzly Bear and Bighorn Sheep ...... 240 Mountain Goats ......... 246 Drama of the Plains ........ 256 The Badger ..... 268 Woodland Caribou ......... 276 Musk Ox 278 Polar Bear and Seal 280 Atlantic Walrus ......... 284 Sea Bear or Fur Seal 289 Harbor Seal 294 Heads of Antelope or Pronghorn, Mountain Goat, Big-horn, and Musk Ox ........ 300 Heads of Woodland Caribou, Moose, and Elk . . 302 Nez Big Moose 316 The Manatee 322 The Sperm Whale ......... 325 Finback Whale ......... 327 The Porpoise 328 Dolphins 330 Meadow Mouse 332 The Muskrat 337 Cotton R


Four-footed Americans and their kin . 236 Grizzly Bear and Bighorn Sheep ...... 240 Mountain Goats ......... 246 Drama of the Plains ........ 256 The Badger ..... 268 Woodland Caribou ......... 276 Musk Ox 278 Polar Bear and Seal 280 Atlantic Walrus ......... 284 Sea Bear or Fur Seal 289 Harbor Seal 294 Heads of Antelope or Pronghorn, Mountain Goat, Big-horn, and Musk Ox ........ 300 Heads of Woodland Caribou, Moose, and Elk . . 302 Nez Big Moose 316 The Manatee 322 The Sperm Whale ......... 325 Finback Whale ......... 327 The Porpoise 328 Dolphins 330 Meadow Mouse 332 The Muskrat 337 Cotton Rat . 339 Marsh Rat 340 Wood Bat 341 Pouched or Mole Gopher 343 Gray Pocket Gopher 344 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XV Kangaroo Eat «Pocket Mouse .Jumping Mouse .Flying SquirrelsGray Squirrel .The Chipmunk .Striped SpermopiiileRock SpermopiiileBeavers at WorkBlack BearThe OpossumLittle Brown BatCommon MoleStar-nosed MoleShort-tailed ShrewLeast Shrew page345347 348352358300302364360379383389390391394395 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS IN THE PASTURE. ;T was circus day clown at East the common circus, with a Lion,Elephant, a cage or two of Monkeys,a fat clown turning somersaults, anda beautiful lady floating throughpaper hoops, but a real Americancircus — the Wild West Show,with its scouts, frontiersmen, Bron-cos, bucking Ponies, Indians,and course the House People at Orchard Farm madea holiday and went down to see the show, giving manydifferent reasons for so doing. Dr. Hunter and said it was their duty as patriotic Americansto encourage native institutions, and Mrs. Blake saidthat she must surely go to see that the young peopledid not eat too many peanuts and popcorn balls. Theyoung people thought that going to the circus was amust be, unless one was ill, or had done something very,very wrong, that merited the severest sort of punish-ment. Mammy Bun, too, who had been groaning B l 2 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS about pains in her bones for fully a week, took outher


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