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Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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shells and scatteringtheir not rose scented contents all about the room. Then they hadto be thrown ^way. 114 LITTLE FOLKS A BIRD WITHOUT WINGS. I dont mean that he has not something in the place for wings,but as far as any use of them is concerned, they are not wings, butpaddles. When this curious fellow goes about on land, he walksupright—as you see in the picture, and when he goes in the waterhe can swim and dive with the greatest ease, using his wings tohelp him along. This bird is the Penguin, and lives in the Southern Seas,spends most of his life in the water, eating cuttle and other fish.He is a sociable creature, always found in a crowd. On some ofthe islands in the South Pacific Ocean, the Penguins assemble bythe thousands, some writers say thirty or forty thousand at a time.They look very droll when on shore, for they form themselves intoranks as regular as a party of soldiers—the fathers by themselves,and the mothers by themselves, and the young ones, also, all together.
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Besides, their upright positions, and their white breasts and darkgray backs, make them look like human beings dressed in white,with black or dark cloaks. They are about three feet high. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 115 The walk of the Penguin is not very graceful, being, in fact,a sort of a waddle; but it is said that if it is hurried, it will use itswings for fore feet, and run like a quadruped, and very rapidly too. Mamma Penguin has a droll way of bringing up her babies.To begin with, she lays one egg of a grayish white color. It ishardly worth while to build a nest and sit on it for weeks, just forone egg, so this odd mother just takes it up—some writers sayin a sort of a fold of her skin, and others say under her leg asthough it was an arm — and carries it wherever she goes. She isnot at all inconvenienced by this burden, for she can leap about,and roll from rock to rock without dropping it. It is well she can,for now I must tell you a very tyrannical and bad trick of PapaPenguin. I

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