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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ont you think the summer bringsJust the brightest, sweetest things? See the color of the sky; See the clouds that sail so high;See the milkweed floating by— Said the dainty butterfly. Smell the clover blossoms there,Scenting all the summer air; Nothing half so sweet or fair,As this meadow, anywhere! Bumble jerked his little head,Then he rather crossly said: Well, I like the clover red,Not for perfume, but for bread! All the world knows that a bee Much too busy is to seeBeauty merely. All that he Cares for is utility. Shining Wings then made reply: Though Im but a butterfly, Beautys faithful lover I,And without it fain to die. Life itself is naught, poor bee, It its but utility;Sure am I twas meant that we Should the beauty, also, see; Else there were no summer sky,Nor the clouds to sail on high; Else no milkweed floating by,Nor spangles for the butterfly! Angry Bumble flew away, Leaving Shining Wings to stay Where the sunshine warmly lay,Turning clover into hay. Sarah E. Sprague. 80
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THE INDIAN ELEPHANT. (Elephas indicus.) The Indian Elephant (Elephas indi-cus) inhabits the wooded parts of South-ern Asia from the Himalayas to the In-dian Ocean, and is found throughout.Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula.It differs from the African Elephant inhaving much smaller ears, a concave in-stead of convex forehead, smaller tusks,and in the possession of a finger on theend of the proboscis which, workingagainst a tubercle on the lower part of thetrunk, serves many of the purposes ofthe human hand. The proboscis, which is an extensionand enlargement of the nose and upperlip, is composed of as many as fortythousand interlacing muscles, and iscapable of the most delicate and variedmanipulation. At times it is used to striptwigs and leaves from overhanging trees,or again to uproot bamboo shoots or topluck grass and plants from the ground,carrying all to the ever-grinding jaws be-hind. By sucking it full of water theElephant may give himself a shower bathor squirt water into his

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