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Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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back Whale. and more costly each year. The Arctic Bowhead yieldsthe finest, longest balee?i, as the Wise Men call thiswhalebone. The Finback Whale, such as you see inthe picture, also grows baleen, but it is of a poorer sort. Why are they digging a hole in this Whale with ashovel ? asked Dodo. That is the old-fashioned blubber shovel with whichthey used to cut the blocks of solid blubber from theWhale, just as you have seen turf cut, in order that thefat may be boiled down to extract the oil. I wish you would tell us all the ways of catchingWhales, and all the places they live, said Nat. 328 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS That would take too long now, and your candywould grow quite hard; but some evening I will showyou pictures of all the Whales, and read you about thefisheries from one of the great black-covered Governmentbooks in my study. I only wished to show you nowthat they really are branches of our Mammal tree, eventhough these branches trail in the Atlantic, Pacific, andArctic oceans.
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The Porpoise. The common Porpoise that we see rolling about thesounds and harbors, and his brother the Dolphin, seemmere babies in size compared to these true Whales. ThePorpoise travels in parties of various sizes, and makes aterrible fuss in getting through the water, rolling, snuf-fling, and grunting like a pig, from which noise, togetherwith the small piglike eyes, it took the name of SeaHog and Herring Hog. Every time a Porpoise rolls he FISH OB FLESH 329 shows the long fin on his back, and this violent effort ismade to allow him to get his nose sufficiently out ofwater to breathe. Porpoises are of very little use toman, which accounts for the numbers constantly seen.They often do positive harm in our home waters by eat-ing quantities of fish that travel in schools, like harborblues, herring, menhaden, etc. They are said to begood fighters and, when in a herd, able to surround quitelarge prey and drive it in any direction they choose.The young are curious creatures, looking, when

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