IN FEATHERS AXD FUR. 
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WHAT I CAN SA Y FOR MYSELF. 
I am an ugly looking fellow, and I know it. But if you are 
well taught, you have heard the old saying, ''Handsome is, that 
handsome does," and the big, awkward looking bill that I carry 
is one of the most useful things that a bird can have. In fact, I 
can't imagine how I could get along and feed my family without it. 
Besides, it isn't half as heavy as it looks. 
I'm a Pelican. That is, you call me by that name, though the 
men who make the big, wise books, where my history is all told, 
have given me the unpronounceable name of Pclicanus Onocrotalus. 
There's one comfort about it, nobody tries to speak it but others of 
their kind, and they know how. 
Well, I live on fresh fish, and so do mv babies, and we can't 
buy it of fish wagons as you can, either. We have to catch every 
one ourselves. While the children are young, I have busy work to 
