Anonymous

“ He is a kind of deer without horns, and lives in cold countries. His flesh is good food, and his skin will make leather. But as you perhaps will never see one alive, I will [Pg 15] introduce you to the dirtiest and most lazy creature living, I mean the Hog. He always wants to be eating and drinking; he loves to wallow in the mire, and to grunt away his time in rooting up the earth. ”

“ I hope you will become a learned man and then you will be rich enough. When you have read all the Concord Picture Books and can tell the names of the kings of England, we will have something else for you. ”

“ Venison is the meat of Deer, and the hunters [Pg 7] shoot him when they wish this meat. The Indians who live in the woods, used to shoot the deer with bows and arrows, before guns and bullets were known.
See this peaked-nose Racoon. This fellow [Pg 8] can run up a tree just as easy as we can upon the ground, and play and sport on the very ends of the branches. He takes his victuals in his two fore paws, and eats like a squirrel. The hunters shoot him for his fur, which they sell to the hatters.
Let us go to the cold and frozen sea, and look at the Sea Elephant, or Walrus. ”