Our Humble Helpers - Familiar Talks On The Domestic Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Humble Helpers - Familiar Talks On The Domestic Animals write by Jean-Henri Fabre. This book was released on 2013-01-04. Our Humble Helpers - Familiar Talks On The Domestic Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wonderful introduction to common farm animals and life in the countryside for young readers. Written as a grandfather talking to his family this book is full of beautiful imagery and information. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals
Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals write by Jean-Henri Fabre. This book was released on 1918. Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Our Humble Helpers
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OUR HUMBLE HELPERS FAMILIAR TA
OUR HUMBLE HELPERS FAMILIAR TA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook OUR HUMBLE HELPERS FAMILIAR TA write by Florence Constable Bicknell. This book was released on 2016-08-28. OUR HUMBLE HELPERS FAMILIAR TA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals
Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals write by Jean-Henri Fabre. This book was released on 2013-09. Our Humble Helpers, Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxix the ass our uncle's partiality, you have already X been able to see, my friends, is for the weak, the ill-treated, the unfortunate. I did not try to eulogize the horse, the valiant animal commending itself sufficiently to our esteem without that; but very gladly will I enumerate the good qualities of the ass, sad victim of our brutality despite the service it renders us. To give my words more authority I will add Buff on's testimony to my own. "'The ass, ' says the illustrious historian of animals, 'is not a degenerate horse, as many imagine; it is neither a foreigner nor an intruder nor a bastard; like all animals it has its family, its species, and its rank. Although its nobility is less illustrious, it is quite as good, quite as ancient, as that of the horse. Briefly, the ass is an ass, nothing more, nothing less. "'This initial fact is of no slight importance. In considering the ass as a degenerate horse we are led to compare it with its assumed origin, and the comparison is not favorable to it: the long-eared donkey makes but a pitiful showing beside the brisk and noble courser. But as it is in reality a separate animal let us expect of it only the qualities of its speoies, the qualities of the ass, without depreciating the animal by comparisons with others that are stronger and better endowed. Do we despise rye because it is not so good as wheat? We thank Heaven for both, the first as the valued crop of the mountains, the second as that of the plains. Let us not, then, despise the ass because it is inferior to the horse. It possesses the good qualities of its species, and cannot possess others. We fail to recognize that the ass would be our foremost, our finest, our best made, our most distinguished domestic animal if...
