SECOND BOOK 
Part I.— ANIMAL LIFE 
A WALK WITH THE NATURALIST. 
1. Mr. Johnson lived in a pleasant house some 
distance beyond the noise and bustle of Kingston. 
He chose a quiet spot for his home, because he 
gave up most of his time to the study of animals. 
2 . His house was almost like a museum, for its 
walls were nearly covered with cases containing 
birds, reptiles, and other animals which he had 
stuffed, and the skeletons of creatures whose bones 
he had fixed in proper order. 
3. Here and there were cabinets, from which he 
opened neat little drawers, displaying collections of 
gay butterflies, beetles, and other insects, and 
numbers of shells, surprising in their lovely tints 
and shapes, 
4. He was never happier than when at work 
among his specimens, and to tell his friends some 
of the wonderful things he had learnt about animals 
was always a delight to him. 
No wonder then that William and Arthur Grant, 
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