Excerpt from Jim Crow's Language Lessons and Other Stories of Birds and AnimalsThe author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors of The Youth's Companion, The New York Observer, Happy Hours, Little Folks Our Little Ones, and The Weekly Magnet, in whose papers some of the following stories have appeared, and whose cordial good will has encouraged her to offer them with others which have not been published.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.