Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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and build a thin dome over her, to shield her from harm. Much mischief as they do, however, they do one very usefulwork. In tropical countries, where the trees grow very large, andtornadoes are common, many trees are blown down ; and the groundwould be covered with them but for these industrious little crea-tures, who eat out the inside, leaving only a thin rind of the bark. They are very good to eat. Birds are very fond of them,chickens snap them up greedily, Ants run after them and devourthem by the million. Negroes of South Africa cannot get enoughof them. They roast them and eat them by handfuls. TheIndians make them into a sort of cake, and in fact, they seem tobe the choice morsel of the country. They are called White Ants — but they are not Ants at all—they are Termites. You can see their house in the picture. 172 LITTLE FOLKS A QUEER LITTLE FELLOW. Isnt it a queer little fellow who knows everything as soon ashes born, and builds a house for himself before hes one day old ?
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Everything about him is curious. To begin with, he lives atthe bottom of a pond or river. At first he was nothing but a tiny IN FEATHERS AXD FUR. 173 atom of a green egg, stuck to the stem of some weeds under thewater. After a while the egg burst open, out crawled Mr. Worm,and proceeded at once to look for building materials. You see, except his head and neck, which are protected by ahard covering, he is a soft little worm, and he wouldnt live long inthe same pond with fish, and bugs, and spiders, who have nothingto do but to eat, and are always hungry, unless he had a safe home. So, of course, he goes, the first thing, to building. There are several branches of the family, and they all builddroll little houses, though theyre not all alike. One of them huntsup two dead leaves, and glues them together in such a way as toleave a nice cozy home between them. Its perfectly safe ; for whowould suspect an old dead leaf of being anybodys house ? Another of the family builds of stems of grass

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