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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Our Home Pets: How to Keep Them Well and HappyBy properly caught, I mean taken from the nest, or when just out of it. By proper ly cherished, I mean not only fed and watered as regularly and carefully as we attend to our own physical needs, but in every other way made as happy as is possible by loving atten tion and thoughtful consideration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from The Children's Book of BirdsThe children's book OF birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respectively and still popular with children in and out of school and with other beginners in the study of birds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Little People of AsiaThere are many queer things in this big world of ours, but there's nothing queerer, I think, than the way children live in different parts of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...

Excerpt from Kristy's Queer ChristmasThe way Kristy came to have a queer Christ mas at all, was this: she had been very ill at her grandmother's, and though she tried her best, and the good doctor tried his best, she could not get well enough to go home for Christmas.This was a great grief, of course, for all the girls were having fine times in town, Christ mas trees and all sorts of festive doings, and Kristy thought so much about it all and ...

Excerpt from True Bird Stories From My Note-BooksAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in th...

Excerpt from Kristy's Surprise PartyKristy was spending the day with her Aunt Lu. She had been all winter with her grand mother down in the village, and to-morrow She was going home to begin school again.It was her birthday, and in honor of the occasion, she wore her prettiest white dress, and her daintiest blue ribbons, and at the moment my story begins, she was curled up on the bamboo lounge on the piazza reading a story. Kristy dearly loved...

Excerpt from What Happened to BarbaraOh, please, pleaded the voice of her warmest friend, a girl younger than herself who clung to her like a worshiper, please make one for me!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from Little Folks in Feathers and Fur: And Others in NeitherA good little Mother with a bad name, A little' darh Nursery under the ground, A curious little Builder.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, p...

Excerpt from A Bird-Lover in the WestThe studies in this volume were all made, as the title indicates, in the West, part of them in Colorado in Utah and the remainder (1892) in what I have called The Middle Country, being Southern Ohio, and West only relatively to New England and New York, where most of my studies have been made.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from Upon the Tree-TopsIn the beginning of my study of bird life, when I had a bird-room for close observation, I was interested to see that our little neighbors in feathers possess as much individuality of character as ourselves, and in Chapters XII. and XIII. of this volume I offer two studies of that period, illustrative of the point.Thanks are due to Mr. Frederic A. Ober for the use of his notes on one of the solitaires, embodied i...

Excerpt from Little Brothers of the AirTo study a nest is to make an acquaintance. However familiar the bird, unless the student has watched its ways during the only domestic period of its life, - nesting time, - he has still something to learn. In fact, he has almost everything to learn, for into those few weeks is crowded a whole lifetime of emotions and experiences which fully bring out the individuality of the bird. Family life is a test o...

Excerpt from The Woman's Club: A Practical Guide and Hand-BookA warm lover of the Woman's Club as I am, I feel that I can do my sisters - widely scattered over our broad land - no greater service than to give them the "Open Sesame" to the most useful, as well as the most delightful, of modern "Institutions." To that end I have prepared this volume, aiming to present, not only an interesting account of the variety of ways in which the Club Idea...

Our Home Pets - how to keep them well and happy is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans...

Excerpt from Bird-WaysIN offering to bird-lovers these studies from life, I wish to say that with the exception of an incident or two properly credited every thing herein recorded came under my own ob servation, and is literally and entirely true so far as the fact is concerned, I may have some times misunderstood the motives oi the little actors in the drama, but the account of their actions may be implicitly relied upon.About the PublisherFo...

Excerpt from With the Birds in MaineFlycatcher vagaries Alder Flycatcher. Empidonax traillu alno rum. Olive-sided Flycatcher. N uttallorm's bore alis. Chebec. Empidonax minimus. Kingbird. Tyrannus tyrannus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Birds and Bird Watching describe the natural features and environments of birds, and how the observation of birds (birding) is best undertaken as a recreational activity. Titles include: Bird studies with a camera, Bird Houses Boys Can Build, Birds, Their Cages and Their Keep: Being a Practical Manual of Bird-Keeping and Bird-Rearing, Methods of attracting birds, The Coues Check List of North American Birds, The Firs...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...