Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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Was hanging at the fire to air, and to his great delight There was no servant in the kitchen-not a soul in sight.

The Puppy's Education. $ AID the Terrier to her Puppy, "It is high time, He dragged the linen up and down upon the kitchen floor, my son, Now you are three weeks old, and you can see, and bark, and run, And then the buttons from the collars and the wrists he tore; He left a heap of rags and jags, now snowy white no Though but a little, that your education was begun. more. "The first thing for a dog to learn (pray try to learn it right) For this he was well beaten, and locked up for the day Must be to make your little teeth both sharp, and strong, and white; In a large empty stable, where he had room for play; But this needs constant practice-bite, bite, for ever bite!"

But he felt sad and sulky, so he slumbered in the hay.

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