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and on the back of each there is a little additional information. 

 Tiny pen and ink drawings with each story give the book an 

 attractive feature. The educational possibilities are at once 

 apparent. 



Among other things, Dr. Hornaday says in the foreword: 

 "Anyone who writes truthfully about animals, in a language 

 suitable to young people, is sure of an appreciative audience. 

 Every normal and healthy child is born with a natural love for 

 animals, and a desire to know them intimately. Through lack 

 of opportunity that interest may not develop with the lapse of 

 time, and in the adult it may finally become so dormant as to seem 

 absent. 



" The time is rapidly passing wherein to know a wild creature is 

 to desire to 'kill it.' The desire is an inheritance from savagery. 

 Boys and girls of today are more anxious to know the wild creatures. 

 A dead animal quickly ceases to be interesting. The most wonder- 

 ful thing about any animal is its mind, and its modes of life — how 

 it travels, eats, drinks, sleeps, fights and hides from enemies. 

 Every wild creature represents a collection of animal stories. 

 To know these animals in their haunts is to know also a great deal 

 of the geography of the world, and much of its climates, soils and 

 plants. 



"The chief object of the New York Zoological Society is to 

 bring to the millions fine representatives of the interesting wild 

 creatures which can not be seen by all in their haunts. The 

 pictures and descriptions set forth in this volume are intended to 

 convey truthful impressions of the most interesting animals of 

 the Zoological Park collection. 



G. T. K. N. 



