Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 680
LE HEAD-DRESSESAND TAILS OF BIRDS We are familiar with the suggestion that manyof our trades and many kinds of our handiworkare copied from the work of birds and other ani-mals, but all such notions are fanciful, incorrect,and worthless. Man built mud huts long beforehe knew anything about the… … HIGHLYCR DECORATED HEAD OF THEOWNED PIGEON. Greenland, for instance, in Lapland, and in thepolar regions of the earth. If man learnedmasonwork from the beaver, did the beaver teachthe ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids? Allsuch suggestions are silly, and every reader, espe-cially every young…
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