i68 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



LANDS OF ETERNAL SNOW ! 



Up to the birthplace of the awe-inspiring 

 glaciers, whose 



EMERALD ICE, CENTURIES OLD, 



never ceases its imperceptible, but certain move- 

 ment to the bluff foot where pieces hundreds of 

 feet in thickness break off and go thundering down 

 the mountain-side, cutting great swathes through 

 the forests of tall dark trees below. Here on the 

 edge of the beetling precipice 



FAR ABOVE THE CLOUDS 



you will find gentle little Nannie's nursery. 



On the twenty-ninth day of May, 1890, "Chris- 

 tian," the guide, murdered Nannie's mother; but do 

 not think too badly of Christian if he did not live 

 up to the high ideal suggested by his name. Few 

 men think it 



WRONG TO TAKE LIFE 



even of a mother animal for the fun of the thing; 

 few women will deny themselves the pleasure 

 of wearing in' their hats the badly upholstered 

 bodies of little birds, for the sake of sav- 

 ing some of their humble fellow-creatures from 

 extermination. 



Christian thought himself to be a sportsman and 

 the killing of a mother animal is considered "sport" 



