Who stole the Bird’s-Nest
Who stole the Eggs
What the Birds say
The Wren’s Nest
On Another’s Sorrow
The Shepherd’s Home
The Wood-Pigeon’s Home
The Shag
The Lost Bird
The Bird’s must know
The Bird King
Shadows of Birds
The Bird and the Ship
A Myth
Cuvier on the Dog
A Hindoo Legend
Ulysses and Argus
Tom
William of Orange saved by his Dog
The Bloodhound
Helvellyn
Llewellyn and his Dog
Looking for Pearls
Rover
To my Dog “Blanco”
The Beggar and his Dog
Don
Geist’s Grave
On the Death of a Favorite Old Spaniel
Epitaph in Grey Friars’ Churchyard
From an Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
The Dog
Johnny’s Private Argument
The Harper
“Flight”
The Irish Wolf-Hound
Six Feet
There’s Room enough for all
His Faithful Dog
The Faithful Hound
The Spider’s Lesson
The Spider and Stork
The Homestead at Evening
The Cattle of a Hundred Farms
Cat-Questions
The Newsboy’s Cat
The Child and her Pussy
The Alpine Sheep
Little Lamb
Cowper’s Hare
Turn thy Hasty Foot aside
The Worm turns
Grasshopper and Cricket
The Honey-Bees
Cunning Bee
An Insect
The Chipmunk
Mountain and Squirrel
To a Field-Mouse
A Sea-Shell
The Chambered Nautilus
Hiawatha’s Brothers
Unoffending Creatures
September
The Lark
The Swallow
Returning Birds
The Birds
Thrush
Linnet
Nightingale
Songsters
Mohammedanism—­The Cattle
The Spider and the Dove
The Young Doves
Forgiven
Prayers
Dumb Mouths
The Parsees
Hindoo
The Tiger
Value of Animals
Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

INTRODUCTION.

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The Bible.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.—­Gen. i. 31.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God:  in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.—­Ex. xx. 10.

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

I know all the fowls of the mountains:  and the wild beasts of the field are mine.—­Psa. l. 10, 11.

The Lord is good to all:  and his tender mercies are over all his works.

The eyes of all wait upon thee:  and thou givest them their meat in due season.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.—­Psa. cxlv. 9, 15, 16.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.—­Prov. xii. 10.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.—­Prov. xxxi. 8.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.—­Job xii. 7.