Produced by Colin Bell, monkeyclogs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Front cover: 1 THE TWO GOATS AND THE SICK MONKEY. PORTLAND: BAILEY & NOYES.] THE TWO GOATS AND THE SICK MONKEY. [Illustration: Flower] PORTLAND: BAILEY & NOYES. [Illustration: Ibex] There are two or three kinds of Goats: One kind is called an I-bex, another a Chamois, and the other a Goat. This is an Ibex, and his horns are different from the tame goat who has a long beard. The Ibex runs over the highest rocks as easily as you can run on this floor, though his feet are but four little hoofs. So also can the Goat.--I heard of two goats who met on a narrow ridge on the side of a very high rock, as high as the Old-South steeple, and neither could turn out, nor go back, nor pass along, the path was so narrow. What were these two poor goats to do? If they fell, it would have killed them directly, and there they stood crying and no one could help them, because no one could get near to them. People could see them only. I'll tell you what they did. One of them kneeled down and the other went so carefully over his back, that both got safely by. [Illustration: Goat] This Dog is angry. He is barking loudly at somebody. [Illustration: Dog] [Illustration: Gazelle] The Gazelle or Deer runs swift away when he hears the roar, and the deer can run faster than most other creatures. Venison is the meat of Deer, and the hunters shoot him when they wish this meat. The Indians who live in the woods, used to shoot the deer with bows and arrows, before guns and bullets were known. [Illustration: Racoon] See this peaked-nose Racoon. This fellow can run up a tree just as easy as we can upon the ground, and play and sport on the very ends of the branches. He takes his victuals in his two fore paws, and eats like a squirrel. The hunters shoot him for his fur, which they sell to the hatters. [Illustration: Walrus] Let us go to the cold and frozen sea, and look at the Sea Elephant, or Walrus. These ivory tusks are hard as iron and white as snow, and under his skin is plenty of lamp oil. He is killed with a harpoon, and sometimes with a club. It must be very cold work to be hunting walruses where the sea is frozen almost the year round, where the great white bear lives, and seals and whales are playing about. [Illustration: Monkey]