그림이들어있는 동물들의 이야기.Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. Woodworth

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그림이들어있는 동물들의 이야기.Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. Woodworth
그림이들어있는 여러 동물들의 일화를 쓴책임.
n the following pages are grouped together anecdotes
illustrative of the peculiarities of different animals―mostly
quadrupeds―their habits, dispositions, intelligence, and
affection. Nothing like a scientific treatise of any of these
animals has been attempted. I do not even give a generic or
specific history of one of them, except so far as they are all
casually and incidentally described in these anecdotes. Their
natural history, in detail, I leave for others, as the historian or
biographer of men, bent only on a record of the thoughts,
words, and acts of men, passes by the abstract details,
however interesting they may be, of human physiology, and
the general characteristics of the species. I have not aimed
to introduce to the reader, in this volume, all the animals
belonging to the race of quadrupeds, who have a claim to
such a distinction. I have preferred rather to make a selection
from the great multitude, and to present such facts and
anecdotes respecting those selected as shall, while they
interest and entertain the young reader, tend to make him
familiar with this branch of useful knowledge.