Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither (1875) (14804079243)

Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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th gayfestoons of tiny eggs of the loveliest colors. Theres a funny thing I want to tell you about these eggs,when they are hatched into babies. Most babies—you know—arelike their mothers; that is, a cats baby is a little cat, and a cowsbaby a little cow. But a Medusa s baby isnt a little Medusa. Notby any means. First, it looks not much like anything, but it grad-ually grows till it looks like a pile of live plates. After livinga while in that shape, the upper plate begins to wriggle and twist,and finally with a mighty jerk it comes off; and theres a little star-shaped creature, that after a while grows like its mother. The nextplate soon gets uneasy, and thus they all finally separate. Another of the family has still odder babies. Out of one eggwill grow a creature that looks like a plant. It is fixed to the rock, IN FEATHERS AND FUR, 265 and cant get around; but lives and dies, a beautiful feathery orplant-like animal. But strangest of all, its babies are like theirgrandmother.
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One of the family is quite famous as the Portuguese man-of-war. It looks like a floating bladder a foot long, of transparent crystaland blue. On top, stands a sail or comb, with red edges, and underthe water, hang long streamers, blue and violet-colored. They canbe stretched out eighteen or twenty feet; but pretty as they look,theyre very dangerous to little fishes. As soon as he touches oneof these garlands of death, he is seized and paralyzed. Then thestreamers roll up and carry him to the mouths, of which this beauty 266 LITTLE FOLKS has a good many. They suck the good out of him as you suck anorange. In this way he can eat fishes much bigger than himself. He isnt a very nice fellow for a man even to touch. One nat-uralist accidentally had his hands entangled in these pretty floatingcords, and in an instant he felt as though his hand had been plungedinto boiling oil. Youd soon learn to keep your hand cff of things if you hadmuch to do with Sea Nettles. And thats a very hard lesson