Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 471
ved to bethe same bird. He wonders how many timeslarger the big egg is than the little one. If heasks, as I did, he will be told that it is aboutthirty thousand times as big, and he will pictureto himself the great bird, as tall as a tree,sweeping over the sands with furlong strides. 972 THE… … NEPTUNE S CUP. and the specimens range from the great BrainCoral and Neptunes Cup to the delicate andbeautiful Venuss Flower Basket, a superb whitesponge from the Philippine Islands. And now the Child has reached the last casein the room. It contains Minerals and Fos-sils, and here are some things…
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