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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.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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called the Nurse Frog. Frogs have also been used in medicine. Some of the oldwriters gravely tell that frogs boiled in vinegar are good fortoothache. 64 LITTLE FOLKS A FELLOW WHO WEARS HLS RLBS OUTSLDE. It isnt because he is nothing but bones, either. He hasplenty of flesh, and you have seen some of his relations dozens oftimes, I have no doubt. Only you didnt know that the snughouse he lives in is made of the usual bones ; the ribs made broadand strongly united together to form a roof, and the breast boneswidened to make his floor. He lives in a regular fort, where he can draw in his- head andfeet, and bid defiance to most of his enemies. And more thanthat — he never leaves his fort for a moment, but carries it every-where he goes. All he has to do is to raise his roof a little, stickout four stout feet and a head, and he can walk off as well asanybody. Then, if surprised by an enemy, he jerks in his headand feet, snaps down his roof, and then he is snugly hidden by hisshell house.
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This curious fellow is a Tortoise, or turtle, and of courseyou boys have seen many of his small relations, that you callmud turtles. But I want to tell you about the big ones, the IN FEATHERS AXD FUR. 65 Sea Turtles, that sometimes weigh many hundreds of pounds, andhave shells five or six feet long. These big fellows stay in thewater ; they swim and dive, and remain under water a long time.In fact, they scarcely ever come on shore, except to lay their eggs. You must know that turtles eggs are very nice to eat, andnot only men are fond of them, but fishes, and all sorts of seamonsters devour them, and it wouldnt be very safe for MammaTurtle to display any eggs there, so she swims to some quiet placewhere there is a broad sandy shore. Sometimes she travels hun-dreds of miles to such a place, for it is said she will go nowhereexcept to the place where she was hatched herself. Then, in thenight, when she thinks all men and other land monsters are asleep,she walks up on the shore, and digs

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