A child's primer of natural history by Herford Oliver 1863-

Author:Herford, Oliver, 1863- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1899-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

An Ostrich.

An Ostrich.

This is an Os-trich. See him stand:

His head is bur-ied in the sand.

It is not that he seeks for food,

Nor is he shy, nor is he rude;

But he is sen-si-tive, and shrinks

And hides his head when-e'er he thinks

How, on the Gains-bor-ough hat some day

Of some fine la-dy at the play,

His fea-thers may ob-struct the view

Of all the stage from me or you.

The Hippopotamus.

The Hippopotamus.

"Oh, say, what is this fearful, wild

In-cor-ri-gible cuss?"

"This crea-ture (don't say 'cuss,' my child;

'T is slang)—this crea-ture fierce is styled

The Hip-po-pot-am-us.

His curious name de-rives its source

From two Greek words: hippos— a horse,

Potamos —river. See ?

The river 's plain e-nough, of course;

But why they called that thing a horse ^

That 's what is Greek to me."

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