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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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h a live mouse, as kittens will. When the Owlet saw that, hesemed indignant, and would rush out and bite the mouse on theback of its neck, of course killing it at once. He would then walkoff and leave the kittens to play with the dead mouse. Mr. Wood says that Owls have two ways of eating. To dis-pose of a mouse, it is thrown up into the air and caught head firstin the Owls mouth. It is quickly swallowed with the exceptionof the tail, which hangs out one side of his mouth, and is rolledback and forth for two or three minutes, then jerked down histhroat. But if the morsel to be eaten is a bird, he proceeds quitedifferently. He tears it to pieces, and partly pulls out its feathers,before eating it. IN FEATHERS AXD FUR. 89 STANDING ON HIS HEAD. Standing on the head isnt a very elegant position — is it?Men. and boys, too, for that matter, look more interesting on theirfeet, though I dont suppose there ever was a boy who would carehow he looked, provided he could truly stand on his head.
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Well, droll as you may think it, I have read in some of the bigbooks, that there is a bird—an American bird at that — who delightsin standing on his head ! Now, dont you suppose that innocentand dignified bird would be surprised to hear such a piece of slanderabout himself ? This feathered personage has a curious way of getting his din-ner, I must admit, and he does look as though he used his head fora third leg. This is how it is: he always lives on the bank of a 90 LITTLE FOLKS river or pond, and he likes for his dinner, the little frogs and wormsthat live in the soft mud under the water. But he might watch allday, and starve to death, for all the dinner he would get, if he wasnot pretty sharp in his hunting. He wades into the water (he belongs to the family of Waders) ;then he goes on to stir up the mud with his feet, and frighten thelittle fellows out of their mud houses. Not having hands, he needssomething to catch them when they are out, so he just layshis head down by the s

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