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CHAPMAN ILLUSTRATED BY ERNEST SETON THOMPSON See p(i rRiPED Spermophilb 283 W IK'K SpERMOPIIILE , 240 V EAVERS AT WORK 246 V LACK Bear 256 V' IE Opossum . 268 B' TTLE Brown Bat . ^ 276 »• )MM()N Mole par-nosei) Mole 280 V' lORT-TAiLEi) Shrew . 284 W EAST Shrew . 289 ■ • ^^* 1 ' 800 1 • ^^^ a • . ' . 816 M . 322 9 • 3'^^ n . 327 . 328 . 330 . 832 . 337 . 830 . 840 ** . 341 . 348 . 344 PAGE 345 347 348 352 358 360 302 364 366 379 383 389 390 391 394 395 m ;|'^-. I 'I mm . / iii id K)ll rOU]l-FOOTED AMERICANS IN THE PASTURE y 1/ k r^T was circus day down at East Village. ' "^ Not tlie common circus, with a Lion, Elephant, a cage or two of ^Monkeys, a fat clown turning somersaults, and a beautiful lady floating through paper hoops, but a real American circus — the Wild West Show, w ith its scouts, frontiersmen, Bron- cos, bucking Ponies, Indians, and Huff aloes. Of course the House Peoi)le at Orchard Farm made holiday and went down to see the show, giving many lifferent reasons for so doing. Dr. Hunter and Mr. lake said it was their duty as patriotic Ameri(!ans encourage native institutions, and Mrs. lilake said at she must surely go to see that the young people d not eat too many peanuts and j>opcoru Walls. The )ung people thought that going to the circus was a Inst h<\ uidess one was ill, or had done something very, ry wrong, that merited the severest sort of punish- ent. Mammy Huu, too, who iiad been groaning H 1 i FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS iii !'; about pains in her bones for fully a week, took out her best black bonnet trimmed with a big red rose, — headgear that she only wore on great occasions, — saying : — " Pears to me nuffin eber does ma reumatiz de heap o' good like hearin' a real circus ban' a playin'. Land alibe, honies I I feel so spry alreddy seems like I'se could do a caike walk dis yer minit." ff% ^f ^^ ^^ It was October. Everything looked cheerful at the farm. The maples were dressed in dazzling red and yellow ; heaps of red and yellow apples lay under the orchard trees, and the house and barns wore a glisten- ing new coat of yellow paint, with white trimmings and green blinds. A deeper yellow shone from the fields where jolly pumpkins seemed to play hide-and-seek behind the corn stacks, which the children called wigwams when they played Indian. Everything looked as thrifty as if the outdoor season was beginning instead of nearly at an end ; and well it might, for it had been many years since the old farm held such a family. There would be no closed blinds, leaf-choked paths, or snow- drifts left to bury the porch, this winter. "Yes, the Chimney Swift was right," said tlie Meadowlark in the old field, to the Song Sparrow who was singing cheerfully in a barberry bush. " We shall be better off than before these House People cami; : they have Jilready begun to scatter food in the barn- yard, though there are enough gleanings about to last us citizens until snow comes. The village boys never think of coming up here now to slioot, as they used lo every Ind the )oldly s] |wo to t( " Wh( Ihe you] iad com Ihe bam afraid tl) " Oh 1 lave onl lar end [ime, an ^ever sa ^as to r Ihe flies lious, yo ^erbs mi " Now f'ork, aiK lock, anti plenty to is very ^ear-old, [11 the w tlie lo\ inies togi '^ There ig his in [now aboi People ar( nd the b( IN THE PASTURE took out :l rose, — asions, — z de heap i'. Land like I'se Eul at the T red and under the a glisten- trimmings ^here jolly ehind the ^ams when thrifty as | of nearly een many . There or snow- said the irrow who a We shall )le cami' : the barn- )ut to last )oys never they used lo every season when the wind began to blow cold " ; iind the Meadowlark flew to the top rail of the fence, )oldly showing his yellow breast, and giving a note or two to tell how trustful he was. " Where have you been all summer ? " asked Comet, ihe young trotter, of the big brown farm horses, who lad come to drink at the spring in the pasture below |he barns. " It is so long since I have seen you I was tfraid that you had been sold." " Oh no, youngster ! " replied Tom. " Jerry and I lave only been summering up at the wood lots at the lar end of the farm. We had our shoes off all the |ime, and could amuse ourselves as we liked. We ^ever saw a harness or wagon ; all the Avork we did ras to roll in the grass or wade in the river to keep [he flies off. The grazing up there was simply deli- lious, you know, — all sorts of relishing little bits of }erbs mixed in with the grass. "Now that we have had our rest, it is our turn to ^ork, and gray Bess and Billy have gone to the pad- lock, and we have come to take their places. There is ilenty to do on this farm in fall and winter, though is very lonelv. I can remember, when I was a four- [ear-old, that House People lived in the big barn with 11 the windows, and they used to ride over the snow the low wagon without wheels, and we all had fine mies together." . ' There are fine times here now," said Comet, shak- h,m" his mane importantly; "but of course you do not [now about them, because you have been away. House *eople are living here again. We all have great fun lid the best of eating, with more picnics than plough- I 4 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS ing for the horses. Chihlreii play about the farm, who feed me with bunches of pink clover and little lumps of nice-tasting stuff they call sugar. I mistrusted it at first, it looked so like the hard pebbles in the brook, but it chewed up all right when I nibbled some." '•''You don't look as if you had been having Aa?/" enough to eat, in spite of the good times," said Tom, pityingly. "Only look at your ribs. I can count every one of them. If you were harnessed to a plough, you would come apart at the very first pull. How could you drag a load of hay? As for working in the thresh- ing-machine, those little feet of yours would catch between the slats. What use are thin horses, any- way ? " concluded Tom, rather rudely, not realizing that his remarks were impolite, while Jerry looked proudly along his fat sides and pawed the ground with a hoof nearly as large as a dinner plate. Comet was going to answer angrily and say some- thing very saucy about clumsy work horses, but he stopped himself in time, being every inch a thorough- bred ; for good breeding shows in the manners of animals as Avell as in House People. " No," he answered after a moment, " I can't plough, nor drag a load, nor work the threshing-machine ; but horses are made for different kinds of work. You do not think a cow useless because she gives milk insteud of doing any sort of pulling, do you? Now I can drac: the little wagon over to tiie railway station — when the great iron horse drags the string of covered wagons along the ground on the queer shiny fence rails — in half the time it takes you to go round the ten-acre lot. When I hear that horse coming, breathing hard md roa Bee my kvJint til; )0 the 1] kvould 3 jmiling "I CO jstly. ' )anged )elieve. red as rolled oi seemed t soft. S flinner f( I "Wei] fiials ha stormy v tlie best line littl ler sty li ^ere Co^ - We phat thei ill beha )orn old lot butt( " We'^ the other [ng a feu " I doi " There ii IN THE PASTURE irm, who le lumps rusted it le brook, e." If enough )ityingly. •y one of ou wouhl ould you le thresh- old catch L'ses, any- realizing L'y looked Dund with say some- s, but he thorough- anners of I't plough, hine; but You do Ik insteiul can drag I — where ul wagons rails — ill e ten-acre hing hard md roaring, I prick up my ears, and you can hardly see my feet when they toin^h the road, for I do not rant that great roaring horse to get there before I do. )0 the master is pleased, aiul always takes me. How rould you like to go fast like that ? " said Comet, jmiling behind a bunch of grass. " 1 couldn't go fast if I wanted to," said Tom, hon- jstly. " I tried it once, when a plough-chain fell and )anged my heels. They called it running away, I )elieve. My ! how warm I was. Everything looked red as the sun in August, and a warm rain storm rolled off my coat on to the grass. That is what it seemed to me, but the farmer said, ' Tom is too fat and soft. See how he sweats ! ' and they skimped my linner for a month." "Well, then, to continue," said Comet. "We ani- nals haven't been shut up all summer except in jtormy weather ; the bars have been down between all the best pastures. Even Sausage, the sow, and her line little pigs, have been out walking every day, and ler sty has had fresh bedding in it the same as if they iQVQ Cow or Horse People. " We had so much freedom that I thought at first |;hat there would be a great many fights, but we have ^11 behaved beautifully. Even Nanny Baa, the stub- )orn old sheep, and Corney, the miscliievous goat, have lot butted any one or fought eacli other. " We've had a chance to hear about the world and the other animals in it too, for a circus has been camp- |ng a few fields further down." "I don't like a circus," interrupted Jerry, decidedly. I' There are always a lot of bad-smelling, foreign beasts 6 FOUR-FOOTED AMElilCANS ! 1 -i f. 'I \ in cages with a circus, that a respectable farm four- foot should not encourage. Then there is a terrible noise, — worse than milk-pans falling off the fence, — that tliey call a band ; it makes me forget myself and dodge and dance all over the road. Yes, indeed, I well remember tlie lirst circus I ever heard. It came here when we were tive-year-olds. Tom and 1 upset rings up tlie softened food into her mouth, and chews a<''aiu. This softened food is called the ' cud.' " ''Oh, now I know what Rod meant," cried Dodo, Jlii[)ping her hands, ''when he said the cows were lliewing their ' cud.' They were lying under the trees, ^iid didn't seem to have anytliing near them to eat. thoiiglit cud must be moss or something. Do yiiiy Ither of <»ur animals beside cows have several stoiii- ichs and chew cud ? " Vcs, all the animals that belong to the Meat Fam- ly : Sheep and (ioats., and, among their wild Ameri- lu brothers, the Deer and the very Ihift'alo that you ^iw at the show this afternoon." " Were those strange beasts any relations of our irm animals?" asked the children in one breath. '• Were our farm animals once wild like the Buf- ilocs, and did they live far out West? Who first night them and made them tame?" gabbled Dodo, dy stopping when her breath failed. Our farm animals were never, in the true sense, ^itives of this country. In the far back days, before le pale-faced voyagers came to these shores, the Red |r()thers had no horses to carry them, nor cows to give U'ln milk. They followed the war-[);ith j^iiid game- [ail (111 foot, and their ('lothing and tent homes were liule of the sk'.ns of the lieasts they took with bow, ^row, and spear. 'J'ime was when they liad not even )ears and arrows. 14 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS 1 I " When the pale-faced settlers came to America they brought the useful animals from their old homes witli them : pigs, sheep, horses, goats, cows, dogs, cats, etc., — so though these have lived here as the people have, long enough to be citizens, they are not native or indigenous Americans an}'^ more than we ourselves. That distinction belongs to the Indian, Peccary, Buffalo. Musk Ox, Mountain Goat, Bighorn, Wolf, and Wild- cat, who are the wild cousins of House People and their farm fourfoots. The horse alone has no livimj wild cousin here, though there were horses in America ages ago." " Then those horses that the Indians rode at the show, who hopped around so, weren't really wild at all," said Nat, with a look of great disai)pointment, " They seemed really, truly wild, and hoiv the Indians stuck on and dodged and iired their guns ! " " They are wild in the sense that they were born on the open prairie and lived in vast herds, but they are the great-grandchildren of tame horses. In the south- west, as well as in Soutli America, vast herds of these horses, descended from those brought in by the Span- ish, roamed at large. From time to time the Indian^ dashed into the troops and lassoed those that they de- sired and rode them as we saw the Indians do this afternoon, but they are not true four-footed AmericiUb like that little ( ■hipmunk over there, who is stealing :i few peannjts that C'orney overlooked, or like the sly. fat Woodchucks that we are trying to trap in llit orchard." "Please, Uncle Koy, can Dodo and T put halters ni Tom and Jerry and see if we can ride tliem round tlit ield wit ip at til IJop of hi 'Vou I'm afrai '^ou will lod to 1) In a blanket ( isisted 1 Now. )nld i)]a hiitate a (ery (|uie Nat it iu\ he c lave a lit the spi *'I thin Kod i-i It, too, ] fO]), plcil ?.side lu'i '' A circ fs face, i hitch on " Farm [nisei f. "I'm al \v iniiiui I'll! aiiiii |ih1 of c(| THE ANIMAL TREE 15 rica they mes with >gs, cats, le peoplt ot native )urselves. r, Buffalo. ,nd Wikl- Bople and no livinij 1 America de at tlu' y wild at iointuieut. lie Indians e born oii| they are he south- s of thest the Span- le Indiaih they de- US do tins' Vmeric'an> stealing a e the sly. ap in till halters oi round tin ield without any saddles ? " said Nat, looking fearlessly ip at the big horses, whose mouths barely touched the lop of his head. You can try, if you like," laughed the Doctor, " but I'm afraid it will be too hard travelling for Dodo. No, rou will risk a bumping ? Very well, then, but tell i()(l to bring l)lankets and surcingles." In a few minutes Rod came, strapped a folded blanket on each horse, and gave Nat Jerry's halter, but isisted upon keeping hold of Tom. " Now, if I only had sometliing to shoot with, we [ould play circus. Hoo-oo-ooh I " cried Nat, trying to hiitate an Indian cry, at which sound Jerry galloped [ery (piietly down the pasture, switching his tail, lint Nat it seemed as if he was seated on an earthquake, iiid he clutched Jerry's mane, whereupon the horse ive a little kick of surprise and cantered heavily back the si)ring. "I think T-o-m is falling to pieces," chattered Dodo, Rod ran him round tlie pasture. "He — is — so — lit, too, my legs can't bend down; — I — guess I'll [()]), please," and Rod swung her down to* the wall jside her uncle. " A circus isn't as easy as it looks," said Nat, wiping Is face, and Rap lauglied heartily and pounded his hitch on the fence. "• Farm horses are not saddle liorses," said Comet to Imself. '' I'm all mixed up about animals," said Dodo in a Iav iniiuites when she liad caught her breath. "Our Irni animals aren't real Americans, yet Daisy is a Ind of cousin of the wild Buffalo, because she has no 16 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS I upper front teeth and chews a cud. Birds seem so much easier to understand. Birds are animals with a backbone, a beak for a mouth, and two legs. Thej wear feathers and lay eggs. But these others are different in their mouths and stomachs and feet, and some have horns and some don't. Some have little tails like Corney, and some long hairy tails like the horses, and oh, Uncle ^Roy^ that snake there is all tail ! " Olive says bugs, and beetles, and flies, are animals, too, and beetles are crusty, and caterpillars are squashy, and flies are buzzy, and I'm sure I never can tell win is who. Bii'ds look something alike, even when the; are as different as a Hummingbird and a Duck; but I | cant understand how all the other animals are re lated." "• Not so fast, dearie," said the Doctor, laughing at he: inquiries until the tears ran down his cheeks. "Tlit differences and the relationships of these animals aii no harder to remendjer than they are among the l)ir(]s You know that with them their beaks and feet weii arranged to suit their needs. Have you forgotten liov | we classified the birds, and the little table of the Aniinii Kingdom that you wrote ? " " Yes," said Nat, hesitating ; " that is, 1 did know but I've forgotten most of it." "I remember," said J{ap, "that you said classifyiii, was to put the animals together that were the neare> alike, and the two great divisions of the Animal Km dom were animals without backbones and animals wit them." " Olive says my sponge is an animal," said Dod | doubtfully. " Surely it can't have any backbone, fi lif it di( [of 2>ric] [crumple "I m [chief di jpausing jyou seb trunk ai " Yes, nveetest 'ery liar " I rei want ;"ro\\'s. whieli if- Into larg •ranches nd in lil "The n which y side, s difficu ninial ti le first nvertebi in a little " Are )o(l(). " Yes, raiK.'h, u lithful f( bout eve THE ANIMAL THEE 17 seem sol lis with H s. They thers are feet, and ave little i like the 5 all tail ! e animals, e squashy, n tell will tvhen thev ck ; but 1 Is are n- liing at he; , ks. "Tilt Luimals ait the birds feet wei't rotten iiov he Aninia (lid know classifyiii. ;he neai'o> inial Kins limals wit said Dod' ckbone, f* lif it did it would scratch my face ; but then it was full of prickles when it was new, perhaps its backbone was crumpled up ! " "' I nub I try to make this Animal Kingdom and its chief divisions more clear to you,'' said the Doctor, i)ausing a minute as he looked across the pasture. "Do ou scb i^hat great chestnut tree yonder, with tlie thick nnik and wide-spreading brandies ? "' " Yes, indeed,'' said liap, " and it bears the fattest, weetest nuts of any tree hereabouts ; but it takes a ery hard frost to open them." " 1 remember how good the nuts used to be, but now Avant you all to notice the way in which the tree rows. Above ground there is ii thick straight })art vhich is called the trunk ; then this soon divides nto large branches. A little furtlier up these thick )ranches separate into smaller branches yet, until they lid in little slender twigs. '•The Animal Kingdom is like this tree in the way n which tlie different members all are developed side y side, interlacing and depending upon each other. It s difficult to tell some of tlie lowest branches of the niinal tree from plants: as none of these animals of lie first branches have any backbones, they are called nvertebrates, and their inside parts are held together n a little tube.'' "Are birds on one of the high branches?" asked )0(1(). " Yes, one of the very highest, next to the great iam;li, where man himself sits, surrounded by ull liis aithful four-footed friends, just as he is when he walks bout every day." 18 FOUR-FOOTED AMEllWANH m^ If ■ I* " Do House People iintl fourfoots belong on tlie same great braiieli?" said Kap, looking puzzled. "What is it called, please?" " It is the Manniial branch, the highest of all, and it has so many little branchlets and twigs that it is large enough to be a tree all by itself." " Exactly hoiv are the other Mammals like us, and what does biannual mean? Do they all have Avarm red blood like ours?" asked Dodo, who was celebrated for cutting her lingers. " Tiiey all have warm red blood, but so have birds : vhoro are other differences that you will learn later. The one thing that makes them Mannnals is that tliuv suckle their young with milk." "M — mannnals ; m — milk," sang Dodo. "Why. that 's as easy to remember as ^ liilly Button bought ii buttered biscuit ' ! Please tell us the names of sonit nearby Mammals, Uncle Hoy." "All the farm and lumse fourfoots are Mannnals; also the wihl Deer, Wolves, Poxes, Kats, Mice, S([uir- rels, Moles, Skunks, Weasels, and VVoodchucks, besidt many others you do not know even by name." "So all those nuisance animals are ^himmals too," said Dodo, meditatively. "Nuisance animals! Which are those?" asknl Kap. " 'I'he naughty, bothersome ones that eat things ami bito holes in the house, and dig up the orchard, iimi smell, oh, so bad ! Why, iJiip, don't yon nMuemlu'i the evening we thougiit thcn^ was a. black and whiti rooster by the orchard wall, and (^uick and I tried li catch it, and it turned out to be a Skuidv '' 'I'hcn iii\ rii THE ANIMAL TREE 19 clotlies had to be boiled so hard they were no more use, and Quick tried to get away from himself for almost I two weeks." '' Oh, yes, I do. Mammals must have a great many I shapes, Doctor,'"' continued Rap, thoughtfully. "How are they made into families? — the same vray as Ibirds?" '•''Xw very much the same way. To-night, after sup- Iper, I will draw you a picture of a part of this wonder- ful animal tree, and tell you the names of some of its branches, and perhaps you will remember a few of them. 1 do not wish to bother you with long words, but there arc a few that you must learn. "The history of this animal tree is the most inter- esting story in the world, and the Wise Men call it Zoology, after two (ireek words that mean the liistory of animal life.'" "Then that is the reason why an out-door menag- erie is called a Zo-o-logical (warden," said Nat, stum- bling a tritie over the word. " Daddy was reading to motiier about such a beautiful garden for wild aninuds that is going to be made near New York, — the very biggest in the world, — so that everyone in America jean see liow the animals live. Perhaps we can go tiicrc some day and see all the Mammals." "Daisy gives milk, so 1 am very sure 1 know one Maiuinal anyway," said Dodo, who was growing a little tirtMl. "Oil I oh!" she cried, suddenly jumping off the i'ence. "The sini is going down i)op. I never noticed it, and l{<)(l said I might help milk to-night. He's taking the cows in now. Won't you come and sec nif do it, I'ncle lloy ? " 20 FO U It- FOOT ED A MKU WANS "You help milk?" laughed Nut. " Wlio tauj,^lit you how ? " " Rod ; I've had four lessons, and I can milk almost a (piai't. Then my hands grow all weak and shaky, and Uod says it's enough for once, both for me and for the cow. Daisy is the only one that will let me." "Poor, patient Daisy," laughed the Doctor. "To be sure we will come and see this famous milkmaid." Dodo led the way to the cow barn, where each cow had a clean stall marked with her name. Then she tied a (pieer sort of apron round iier waist, made, like Rod's, out of a meal sack, hunted for a small stool, also like Rod's, and i)repared in a very businesslike man- ner to wash off Daisy's bag with a sponge and soiiu' clean water. " Bravo I Rravo I " cried the Doctor. "My little farmer has already learned that everything about milk, from the animal to the pans, should be very clean." " Zig-zig-zig-zig." said the milk, spattering on the bottom of the pail. In a few minutes the spatteriiiL; stopped. "Now it's beginning to j)urr like a cat," explained Dodo. " It does that whtm the milk l)egins to lill u[» ;i little." Dodo kept bravely at it until her lingers, now ri'(l and tired, had coaxed about a (piart from Daisy. "That will go for to-night," she said, "• though I'm sure I milked more last time. I'm dreadfully thirsty ; suppose we drink this now, Incle \U)\. There's ;i glass by the well, Nat," —and the milk rapidly disappeared. " iM — mammals; m — milk," sang Dodo, skippiiii,' head to fter the " I wit- go hoi "Jiut lovely [raw a t it her rh Unci Japi)y di )asting iraw tilt Mlg . 1 rec kassing a now I'imI )Ugli I'm lliirsty : MuMv's il I'lipidly ahead toward the house, as the short twilight hurried liter the sun. " 1 wish the days were longer," sighed Kap, turning go home. '' J5ut evening with a wood fire in the wonder room lovely," sang Dodo, "and to-night uncle he, will [raw a tree," — she sang; then stopped and laughed [t her rhyme. " Uncle Hoy," she whispered, " it's been such a [appy day, can we have iva|) to help finish off hy justing crackers in the wonder room, and see you Iraw tlie animal tree? Yes? I'll give you a bear's lug . I reckon there will be a frost to-night," said Rod, lassing on his way to the house with the milk-pail. '• Frost I " shouted Nat, dancing round in glee. I^j-ost — chestnuts, llap, — and to-morrow will be hi 1 f " Saturday . m * * * * "How do yon like this?" said Comet, looking up Irom his oats over to Tom and .lerry, as the stable ioor closed with a click. " Hox stalls and two bundles if clean straw ai)iei;e, and warm bran mash for you Icsidc. Did y«m ever have anything as nice as this Awrv you were this sinnmcr?" "I think the House I'eople here understand a Worse's feelings," answered .lerry, [)lunging his nose l)t(> his sMi>[icr. skippii IL' :M III WAI