Excerpt from Grandpapa's Tales About AnimalsIt is a truism that all knowledge is good so long as it contributes to the happiness of mankind.As the services of quadrupeds therefore are so es sential to him in every situation of life, so must the study of their history he, at all times, interesting and ins tructive.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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.