그림이들어있는 동물들의 이야기.Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. Woodworth

그림이들어있는 동물들의 이야기.Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. Woodworth

그림이들어있는 여러 동물들의 일화를 쓴책임.
I ought, in justice to myself, to explain the reason why I have
restricted my anecdotes almost exclusively to animals
belonging to the race of quadrupeds. It is seldom wise, in
my judgment, for an author to define, very minutely, any plan
he may have, to be developed in future years―as so many
circumstances may thwart that plan altogether, or very
materially modify it. Yet I may say, in this connection, that
the general plan I had marked out for myself, when I set
about the task of collecting materials for these familiar
anecdotes, is by no means exhausted in this volume, and
that, should my stories respecting quadrupeds prove as
acceptable to my young friends as I hope, it is my intention
eventually to pursue the same, or a similar course, in relation
to the other great divisions of the animal kingdom―Birds,
Reptiles, Insects, Fishes, etc.
The stories I tell I have picked up wherever I could find
them―having been generally content when I have judged a
particular story to be, in the first place, a good story, and in
the second place, a reliable one. I have not thought it either
necessary or desirable, to give, in every case, the source
from which I have derived my facts. Some of them I obtained
by actual observation; quite as many were communicated by
personal friends and casual acquaintances; and by far the
greater portion were gleaned from the current newspapers of
the day, and from the many valuable works on natural history,
published in England and in this country.