54 About the Feathered Folk. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PENGUINS. 



fATURE has odd ways of 

 knotting her ropes' ends. 

 Did ever you notice that 

 there are animals so akin to plants 

 that it is difficult to say to which 

 " kingdom " they belong ? That 

 there is a flower a moss, rather 

 that eats meat ; that there is a 

 mammal that is almost a fish ; that 

 there is a fish that behaves strangely 

 like a bird ; that there is a bird that 

 lives almost the life of a fish, and 

 possesses almost a fish's fins and 

 scales ? 



(Some people there are, indeed, 

 who go so far as to say that there 



