Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 169
must be content to give up the Lilliputiansand accept penguins, my dear Jack, said I. We 152 The Swiss Family Robinson have not before seen them in such numbers, butErnest knocked one down, if you remember, soonafter we landed. They are excellent swimmers, buthelpless on land, as they can neither… … PENGUINS his stick laid half a dozen, right and left, eitherstunned or dead at his feet. The rest escaped intothe water, dived and disappeared. As these penguins are disagreeable food, onaccount of their strong, oily taste, I was sorry Jackhad attacked them; but as we went to examinethem when we…
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