Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 206
took possession of a red-and-blue pencil and a black mouth began to eat it.Nature is said, in her beneficence, to instruct the loweranimals what to eat and what to avoid. That, nodoubt, applies to an animal in the wild state, suchanimal being directed by instinct where to find an anti-dote to… … 180 The Animal Story Book evil which I knew would result from eating a pencil,I proceeded to recover the stolen article. Though mynew pet did not mind being touched, though he wouldjump into your lap and make himself at home, hestrongly objected to part with anything which he hadonce got hold of,…
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