The Red Book of Animal StoriesAndrew Lang Longmans, Green, 1899 - 379 pagina's A collection of true and fictional tales from various sources about wild, domestic, and mythical animals. |
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Pagina 268 - He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding, that he had never turned sheep in his life ; but as soon as he discovered that it was his duty to do so, and that it obliged me, I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. He would try every way deliberately till he found out what I wanted him to do; and when once I made him to understand a direction, he never forgot or mistook it again.
Pagina 1 - ... body. In order to bring him, they say, he first forms a ball of myrrh as big as he finds that he can carry; then he hollows out the ball, and puts his parent inside, after which he covers over the opening with fresh myrrh, and the ball is then of exactly the same weight as at first ; so he brings it to Egypt, plastered over as I have said, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun. Such is the story they tell of the doings of this bird.
Pagina 174 - When the flood after the storm subsided there were found on that place, and the shore adjacent, 1840 Sheep, 9 Black Cattle, 3 Horses, 2 Men, 1 Woman, 45 Dogs, and 180 Hares, besides a number of "meaner animals...
Pagina 228 - Derby talked togyder in the courte, the Grayhounde, who was wont to leape upon the kynge, left the kynge, and came to the Erie of Derby, Duke of Lancaster, and made to hym the same friendly countinuance and chere as he was wont to do to the kynge.
Pagina 11 - is the river Mara, whose bitter waters Moses struck with his staff and made sweet, so that the children of Israel could drink thereof. Even now, evil and unclean beasts poison it after the going down of the sun ; but in the morning, after the powers of darkness have disappeared, the unicorn comes from the sea and dips its horn into the stream, and thereby expels and neutralizes the poison, so that the other animals can drink of it during the day. The fact, which I describe, I have seen with my own...
Pagina 227 - ... shoulders. And as the kynge and the erle of Derby talked togyder in the courte, the grayhounde, who was wont to leape upon the kynge, left the kynge, and came to the erle of Derby, duke of Lancastre, and made to hym the same frendly countinaunce and chere as he was wonte to do to the kynge. The duke, who knewe not the grayhounde, demaunded of the kynge what the grayhounde wolde do. Cosyn, quod the kynge, it is a great good token to you, and an evyll sygne to me.
Pagina 228 - I know it well quoth the king. The greyhound maketh you cheer this day as King of England, as ye shall be, and I shall be deposed: the greyhound hath this knowledge naturally, therefore take him to you, he will follow you and forsake me.
Pagina 62 - Atlas.' Gerard smiled, and turning towards Amida said a few words to him in his own language, as though consulting him on the choice of the story. Amida bent his head in assent. Then Gerard turned to Dumas, and in his calm, gentle voice began his story : I had killed the lioness on the 19th of July, and from the 19th to the 27th I had searched in vain for the lion. I was in my tent with eight or ten Arabs, some my own men, the rest inhabitants of the settlement where I was. We were talking 'Of what?
Pagina 2 - In Egypt is the city of Heliopolis, that is to say, the city of the Sun. In that city there is a temple, made round after the shape of the Temple of Jerusalem. The priests of that temple have all their writings, under the date of the fowl that is clept phoenix ; and there is none but one in all the world.
Pagina 75 - The lion began to laugh ; ' I should think so ! ' said he. But the first time the lion captured a sheep he was much surprised to find that he could not throw it over his shoulder, as he did with far larger and heavier animals, but had to drag it along the ground. This was the result of his proud boasting, and of forgetting to say, THE LION I.AUOHS AT THE MARAKOIl's QUESTION as he did about the larger animals :