Tales About Birds, Illustrative of Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts

Tales About Birds, Illustrative of Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts

Birds are such universal favourites, and the Stories connected with their Habits and Instincts so varied and interesting, as to make me feel confident that the Volume now offered to my young readers will meet with a ready acceptance and approbation. The Engravings, which have been executed by Mr. Landells, from Drawings by Mr. W. B. Scott, will, I hope, be found faithfully and spiritedly to embody the incidents of the Stories which they severally illustrate. UNCLE THOMAS TELLS ABOUT THE GOLDEN EAGLE, AND NARRATES VARIOUS STORIES ILLUSTRATIVE OF ITS FEROCITY AND POWER. Uncle Thomas had scarcely finished his last series of Tales, when he was gratified by a visit from the Mama of his young auditors, to introduce her two little Girls, who, having heard their Brothers speak so much of the delightful Stories which he told them, had prevailed on her to come with them to request that Uncle Thomas would be so good as to permit them to accompany their Brothers when they came to visit him. I am afraid, Uncle Thomas, said Mama, that we already trespass too much on your 2kindness, in allowing the Boys to intrude upon you so frequently; but they seem always to be so much delighted with the Stories which you tell them that, during the hours in which they are not engaged in the school-room, I seldom hear them talk of any thing else. Dont you recollect the story which Uncle Thomas told us? cries one, in enforcing some controverted point. Ah! but, exclaims another, Uncle Thomas said so and so. And I have come at the request of their Sisters to beg that you will allow them to form part of your little circle of listeners. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 61808
Author: Bingley, Thomas
Release Date: Apr 12, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890