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FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS 



" That would take too long now, and your candy 

 would grow quite hard ; but some evening I will show 

 you pictures of all the Whales, and read you about the 

 fisheries from one of tlie great black-covered Goverinuent 

 books in my study. I only wished to show you now 

 that they really are branches of our Mammal tree, even 

 though these branches trail in the Atlantic, Pacific, and 

 Arctic oceans. 



The Porpoise. 



"The common Porj^oise that we see rolling about the 

 sounds and harbors, and his brother the Dolphin, seem 

 mere babies in size compared to these true Whales. The 

 Porpoise travels in parties of various sizes, and makes a 

 terrible fuss in getting through the water, rolling, snuf- 

 fling, and grunting like a pig, from which noise, together 

 with the small piglike eyes, it took the name of Sea 

 Hog and Plerring Hog. Every time a Porpoise rolls he 



