Our Cats and All About Them
by Harrison Weir

Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir Free Audiobooks Family Friendly Pet Lovers.

section two of our cats and all about them this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by bill babb our cats and all about them by harrison weir section 2 introductory

after a cat show at the crystal palace i usually receive a number of letters requesting information one asks what is a true tortoise shell like another what is a tabby and yet another what is a blue tabby one writes of the splendid disposition of his cat another asks how to cure a cat scratching the furniture and so on after much consideration and also at the request of many i have thought it best to publish my notes on cats their ways habits instincts peculiarities usefulness colors markings forms and other qualities that are required as fitting subjects to exhibit at what has now become one of the instituted exhibitions of the land we live in and also the folk and other lore both ancient and modern respecting them it is many years ago that when thinking of the large number of cats kept in london alone i conceived the idea that it would be well to hold cat shows so that the different breeds colors markings etc might be more carefully attended to and the domestic cat sitting in front of the fire would then possess a beauty and an attractiveness to its owner unobserved and unknown because uncultivated heretofore pre-possessed with this view of the subject i called on my friend mr wilkinson the then manager of the crystal palace with his usual business-like clear-headedness he saw it was a thing to be done in a few days i presented my scheme in full working order the schedule of prizes the price of entry the number of classes and the points by which they would be judged the number of prizes in each class their amount the different varieties of color form size and sex for which they were to be given i also made a drawing of the head of a cat to be printed in black on yellow paper for a posting bill mr f wilson the company's naturalist and show manager then took the matter in charge worked hard got a goodly number of cats together among which was my blue tabby the old lady then about 14 years old yet the best in the show of its color and never surpassed though lately possibly equaled to my watch chain i have attached the silver bell she wore at her debut my brother john jenner weir the reverend j mcdonough and myself acted as judges and the result was a success far beyond our most sanguine expectations so much so that i having made it a labor of love of the feline race and acting without fee gratuity or reward the crystal palace company generously presented me with a large silver tankard and token of their high approval of my exertions on behalf of the company and cats now that a cat club is formed shows are more numerous and the entries increasing there is every reason to expect a permanent benefit in every way to one of the most intelligent of though often much abused animals the first cat show on the day for judging at ludget hall i took a ticket and the train for the crystal palace sitting alone in the comfortable cushioned compartment of a first class i confess i felt somewhat more than anxious as to the issue of the experiment yes what would it be like would there be many cats how many how would the animals comfort themselves in their cages would they sulk or cry for liberty refuse all food or settle down and take the situation quietly and resignedly or give way to terror i could in no way picture to myself the scene it was all so new presently and while i was musing on the subject the door opened and a friend got in ah he said how are you tolerably well said i i am on my way to the cat show what said my friend that surpasses everything a show of cats why i hate the things i drive...

Our Cats and All About Them
by Harrison Weir

Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir Free Audiobooks Family Friendly Pet Lovers.

section two of our cats and all about them this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by bill babb our cats and all about them by harrison weir section 2 introductory

after a cat show at the crystal palace i usually receive a number of letters requesting information one asks what is a true tortoise shell like another what is a tabby and yet another what is a blue tabby one writes of the splendid disposition of his cat another asks how to cure a cat scratching the furniture and so on after much consideration and also at the request of many i have thought it best to publish my notes on cats their ways habits instincts peculiarities usefulness colors markings forms and other qualities that are required as fitting subjects to exhibit at what has now become one of the instituted exhibitions of the land we live in and also the folk and other lore both ancient and modern respecting them it is many years ago that when thinking of the large number of cats kept in london alone i conceived the idea that it would be well to hold cat shows so that the different breeds colors markings etc might be more carefully attended to and the domestic cat sitting in front of the fire would then possess a beauty and an attractiveness to its owner unobserved and unknown because uncultivated heretofore pre-possessed with this view of the subject i called on my friend mr wilkinson the then manager of the crystal palace with his usual business-like clear-headedness he saw it was a thing to be done in a few days i presented my scheme in full working order the schedule of prizes the price of entry the number of classes and the points by which they would be judged the number of prizes in each class their amount the different varieties of color form size and sex for which they were to be given i also made a drawing of the head of a cat to be printed in black on yellow paper for a posting bill mr f wilson the company's naturalist and show manager then took the matter in charge worked hard got a goodly number of cats together among which was my blue tabby the old lady then about 14 years old yet the best in the show of its color and never surpassed though lately possibly equaled to my watch chain i have attached the silver bell she wore at her debut my brother john jenner weir the reverend j mcdonough and myself acted as judges and the result was a success far beyond our most sanguine expectations so much so that i having made it a labor of love of the feline race and acting without fee gratuity or reward the crystal palace company generously presented me with a large silver tankard and token of their high approval of my exertions on behalf of the company and cats now that a cat club is formed shows are more numerous and the entries increasing there is every reason to expect a permanent benefit in every way to one of the most intelligent of though often much abused animals the first cat show on the day for judging at ludget hall i took a ticket and the train for the crystal palace sitting alone in the comfortable cushioned compartment of a first class i confess i felt somewhat more than anxious as to the issue of the experiment yes what would it be like would there be many cats how many how would the animals comfort themselves in their cages would they sulk or cry for liberty refuse all food or settle down and take the situation quietly and resignedly or give way to terror i could in no way picture to myself the scene it was all so new presently and while i was musing on the subject the door opened and a friend got in ah he said how are you tolerably well said i i am on my way to the cat show what said my friend that surpasses everything a show of cats why i hate the things i drive...

Child Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle

Publication date 2013-12-08
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, children, America, Americana, manners, primer, childhood, games, Colonial Times, american colonies, colonial children, toys, flower lore, hornbook, colonial school, colonial dress, penmanship, needlework, decorative arts, american colony
LibriVox recording of Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle.
Read in English by Susan Morin.

The accounts of oldtime child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the attitude of the child, but from that of his parents, guardians, and friends. The records have been made from affectionate interest, not from scientific interest; no profound search has been made for motives or significance, but the proof they give of tenderness and affection in the family are beautiful to read and to know. - Summary by Taken from Forward of book.

chapter 1 of child life in colonial days by alice morse earl this librivox recording is in the public domain babyhood some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle while his heart doth ache quote from the author's way of sending forth his second part of the pilgrim john bunyan 1684 there is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the pilgrims and the fathers of jamestown new amsterdam and boston and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world it was hard for grown folk to live conditions and surroundings offered even to strong men constant and many obstacles to the continuance of existence how difficult was it to rear children in the southern colonies the planters found a climate and enforced modes of life widely varying from home life in england it took several generations to accustom infants to thrive under those conditions the first years of life at plymouth are the records of a bitter struggle not for comfort but for existence scarcely less sad are the pages of governor winthrop's journal which tell of the settlers of massachusetts bay on the journey across seas not a child had shown fear or dismayedness those brave children were welcomed to the shore with good cheer says the old chronicler joshua's catal with external flavor and sweet odor fragrant was the land such was the plenty of sweet fern laurel and other fragrant simples such was the scent of our aromatic and balsam bearing pines spruces and larch trees with tall cedars they landed on a beautiful day in june with a smell on the shore like the smell of a garden and these happy children had gathered sweet wild strawberries and single wild roses it is easy to picture the merry faces and cheerful laughter scans alas were the succeeding days of either sweetness or light the summer wore on in weary work in which the children had to join in constant fears which the children multiplied and magnified and winter came and death there is not a house where there is not one dead wrote dudley one little earth weary traveler a child whose family and kindred had died so many was like the prophets in the bible given exalted vision through sorrow and had extraordinary evidence concerning the things of another world fierce east winds searched the settlers through and through and frost and snows chilled them the dreary ocean and gloomy forest were their bounds scant was their fair and mean their roof trees yet amid all the want and cold little children were born and welcomed with that ideality of affection which seems as immortal as the souls of the loved ones hunger and privation did not last long in the massachusetts colony for it was a rich community for its day and soon the various settlements grew in numbers and commerce and wealth and an exultant note runs through their records prosperous peoples will not be morose...

Child Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle

Publication date 2013-12-08
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, children, America, Americana, manners, primer, childhood, games, Colonial Times, american colonies, colonial children, toys, flower lore, hornbook, colonial school, colonial dress, penmanship, needlework, decorative arts, american colony
LibriVox recording of Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle.
Read in English by Susan Morin.

The accounts of oldtime child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the attitude of the child, but from that of his parents, guardians, and friends. The records have been made from affectionate interest, not from scientific interest; no profound search has been made for motives or significance, but the proof they give of tenderness and affection in the family are beautiful to read and to know. - Summary by Taken from Forward of book.

chapter 1 of child life in colonial days by alice morse earl this librivox recording is in the public domain babyhood some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle while his heart doth ache quote from the author's way of sending forth his second part of the pilgrim john bunyan 1684 there is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the pilgrims and the fathers of jamestown new amsterdam and boston and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world it was hard for grown folk to live conditions and surroundings offered even to strong men constant and many obstacles to the continuance of existence how difficult was it to rear children in the southern colonies the planters found a climate and enforced modes of life widely varying from home life in england it took several generations to accustom infants to thrive under those conditions the first years of life at plymouth are the records of a bitter struggle not for comfort but for existence scarcely less sad are the pages of governor winthrop's journal which tell of the settlers of massachusetts bay on the journey across seas not a child had shown fear or dismayedness those brave children were welcomed to the shore with good cheer says the old chronicler joshua's catal with external flavor and sweet odor fragrant was the land such was the plenty of sweet fern laurel and other fragrant simples such was the scent of our aromatic and balsam bearing pines spruces and larch trees with tall cedars they landed on a beautiful day in june with a smell on the shore like the smell of a garden and these happy children had gathered sweet wild strawberries and single wild roses it is easy to picture the merry faces and cheerful laughter scans alas were the succeeding days of either sweetness or light the summer wore on in weary work in which the children had to join in constant fears which the children multiplied and magnified and winter came and death there is not a house where there is not one dead wrote dudley one little earth weary traveler a child whose family and kindred had died so many was like the prophets in the bible given exalted vision through sorrow and had extraordinary evidence concerning the things of another world fierce east winds searched the settlers through and through and frost and snows chilled them the dreary ocean and gloomy forest were their bounds scant was their fair and mean their roof trees yet amid all the want and cold little children were born and welcomed with that ideality of affection which seems as immortal as the souls of the loved ones hunger and privation did not last long in the massachusetts colony for it was a rich community for its day and soon the various settlements grew in numbers and commerce and wealth and an exultant note runs through their records prosperous peoples will not be morose...

A Japanese Boy
by Shigemi Shiukichi
A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi Free Audiobook Biography Tale Teller Book Clubs.

chapter 1 of a japanese boy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by phil chanavair a japanese boy by shijimi hiyukichi preferatory letter professor henry w fournham dear sir my motives in writing this jejune little volume are as you are aware too first there seems to be no story told in this country of the japanese boy's life by a japanese boy himself the following rambling sketches are incoherent and extremely meagre i own but you must remember that they are a boy's talks give him encouragement and he will tell you more second the most important of my reasons is my desire to obtain the means to prosecute the studies i have taken up in america circumstances have obliged me to make my own way in this hard world if i knew of a better step i should not have resorted to an indiscrete juvenile publication a publication moreover of my own idol experiences and any language the alphabet of which i learned about a few years ago to you my sincere acknowledgements are due for encouraging me to write these pages this kindness is but one of many of which the public has no knowledge i am sir yours very truly shiukichi shigemi new haven connecticut september 1889.

a japanese boy chapter one my birthplace my grandfather tenjasan i was born in a small seaport town called imabari which is situated on the western coast of the island of shikoku the eastern of the two islands lying south of hondo the imabari harbor is a miserable ditch at low tide the mouth shows its shallow bottom and one can wait across people go there for clam digging two or three little streams empty their waters into the harbor a few junks and a number of boats are always seen standing in this pool of salt water in the houses surrounding it mostly very old and ramshackle are sold eatables and provisions fishes are bought from the boats and shelter is given to sailors when a junk comes in laden with rice commission merchants get on board and strike for bargains the capacity of the vessel is measured by the amount of rice it can carry the grain merchants carries about him a good-sized bamboo a few inches long one end of which is sharpened and the other closed being cut just at a joint he thrusts the pointed end into bags of the rice the bags are rice straw knitted together roughly into the shape of barrels having taken out samples in the hollow inside of the bamboo stick the merchant first examines critically the physical qualities of the grains of the palm of his hand and then proceeds to chew them in order to see how they taste years of practice enable him to state after such simple tests precisely what section of the country the article in question came from although the captain of the vessel may claim to have shipped it from a famous rice producing province about the harbor or coulees waiting for work they are strong muscular men thinly clad with easy straw sandals on putting a little cushion on the left shoulder a coulee rests the rice bag upon it and walks away from the ship to a storehouse his left hand passed around the burden and is right holding a short stout beak-like iron hook fastened in the bag in idle moments the coolies get together and indulging tests of strength lifting heavy weights etc that a short distance to the right from the entrance of the harbor is a sanitarium it is a huge artificial cave built of stone and mortar and heated by burning wood fires in the inside after it is sufficiently warmed the fire is extinguished the smoke escapes shut and the oven is ready for use invalids flock in with wet mats which they use in sitting on the scalding rocky floor of the oven lifting the mat that hangs like a curtain at the entrance they plunge into the suffocating hot air and remain there...

A Japanese Boy
by Shigemi Shiukichi
A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi Free Audiobook Biography Tale Teller Book Clubs.

chapter 1 of a japanese boy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by phil chanavair a japanese boy by shijimi hiyukichi preferatory letter professor henry w fournham dear sir my motives in writing this jejune little volume are as you are aware too first there seems to be no story told in this country of the japanese boy's life by a japanese boy himself the following rambling sketches are incoherent and extremely meagre i own but you must remember that they are a boy's talks give him encouragement and he will tell you more second the most important of my reasons is my desire to obtain the means to prosecute the studies i have taken up in america circumstances have obliged me to make my own way in this hard world if i knew of a better step i should not have resorted to an indiscrete juvenile publication a publication moreover of my own idol experiences and any language the alphabet of which i learned about a few years ago to you my sincere acknowledgements are due for encouraging me to write these pages this kindness is but one of many of which the public has no knowledge i am sir yours very truly shiukichi shigemi new haven connecticut september 1889.

a japanese boy chapter one my birthplace my grandfather tenjasan i was born in a small seaport town called imabari which is situated on the western coast of the island of shikoku the eastern of the two islands lying south of hondo the imabari harbor is a miserable ditch at low tide the mouth shows its shallow bottom and one can wait across people go there for clam digging two or three little streams empty their waters into the harbor a few junks and a number of boats are always seen standing in this pool of salt water in the houses surrounding it mostly very old and ramshackle are sold eatables and provisions fishes are bought from the boats and shelter is given to sailors when a junk comes in laden with rice commission merchants get on board and strike for bargains the capacity of the vessel is measured by the amount of rice it can carry the grain merchants carries about him a good-sized bamboo a few inches long one end of which is sharpened and the other closed being cut just at a joint he thrusts the pointed end into bags of the rice the bags are rice straw knitted together roughly into the shape of barrels having taken out samples in the hollow inside of the bamboo stick the merchant first examines critically the physical qualities of the grains of the palm of his hand and then proceeds to chew them in order to see how they taste years of practice enable him to state after such simple tests precisely what section of the country the article in question came from although the captain of the vessel may claim to have shipped it from a famous rice producing province about the harbor or coulees waiting for work they are strong muscular men thinly clad with easy straw sandals on putting a little cushion on the left shoulder a coulee rests the rice bag upon it and walks away from the ship to a storehouse his left hand passed around the burden and is right holding a short stout beak-like iron hook fastened in the bag in idle moments the coolies get together and indulging tests of strength lifting heavy weights etc that a short distance to the right from the entrance of the harbor is a sanitarium it is a huge artificial cave built of stone and mortar and heated by burning wood fires in the inside after it is sufficiently warmed the fire is extinguished the smoke escapes shut and the oven is ready for use invalids flock in with wet mats which they use in sitting on the scalding rocky floor of the oven lifting the mat that hangs like a curtain at the entrance they plunge into the suffocating hot air and remain there...

Little Wars (Sexism Alert) Wargaming Audiobooks Free Kids' Library Children's Games

Publication date 2007-02-14
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, nonfiction, games, war
Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules.

While wargaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how "little wars" with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing.

"You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realise just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but--the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realisation conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do."

Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat.

But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the "skirt-swishers", developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories!

Summary and recording by Mark F. Smith.

this is a librivox recording all labor box recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina little wars a game for boys from 12 years of age to 150 and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys games and books with an appendix on creekspiel by h.g wells

chapter 1 of the legendary past

little wars is the game of kings for players in an inferior social position it can be played by boys of every age from 12 to 150 and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple by girls of the better sort and by a few rare and gifted women this is to be a full history of little wars from its recorded and authenticated beginnings until the present time an account of how to make little warfare and hints of the most priceless sort for the recumbent strategist but let it first be noted in passing that there were prehistoric little wars this is no new thing no crude novelty but a thing tested by time ancient and ripe in its essentials for all its perennial freshness like spring there was a someone who fought little wars in the days of queen anne a garden napoleon his game was inaccurately observed and insufficiently recorded by lawrence stern it is clear that uncle toby and corporal trim were playing little wars on a scale and with an elaboration exceeding even the richness and beauty of the contemporary game but the curtain is drawn back only to tantalize us it is scarcely conceivable that anywhere now on earth the shandian rules remain on record perhaps they were never committed to paper and in all ages a certain barbaric warfare has been waged with soldiers of tin and lead in wood with the weapons of the wild with the catapult the elastic circular garter the peashooter the rubber ball and such like appliances a mere setting up and knocking down of men tin murder the advance of civilization has swept such rude contests altogether from the play room we know them no more

chapter 2 the beginnings of modern little warfare

the beginning of the game of little war as we know it became possible with the invention of the spring...

Little Wars (Sexism Alert) Wargaming Audiobooks Free Kids' Library Children's Games

Publication date 2007-02-14
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, nonfiction, games, war
Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules.

While wargaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how "little wars" with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing.

"You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realise just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but--the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realisation conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do."

Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat.

But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the "skirt-swishers", developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories!

Summary and recording by Mark F. Smith.

this is a librivox recording all labor box recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina little wars a game for boys from 12 years of age to 150 and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys games and books with an appendix on creekspiel by h.g wells

chapter 1 of the legendary past

little wars is the game of kings for players in an inferior social position it can be played by boys of every age from 12 to 150 and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple by girls of the better sort and by a few rare and gifted women this is to be a full history of little wars from its recorded and authenticated beginnings until the present time an account of how to make little warfare and hints of the most priceless sort for the recumbent strategist but let it first be noted in passing that there were prehistoric little wars this is no new thing no crude novelty but a thing tested by time ancient and ripe in its essentials for all its perennial freshness like spring there was a someone who fought little wars in the days of queen anne a garden napoleon his game was inaccurately observed and insufficiently recorded by lawrence stern it is clear that uncle toby and corporal trim were playing little wars on a scale and with an elaboration exceeding even the richness and beauty of the contemporary game but the curtain is drawn back only to tantalize us it is scarcely conceivable that anywhere now on earth the shandian rules remain on record perhaps they were never committed to paper and in all ages a certain barbaric warfare has been waged with soldiers of tin and lead in wood with the weapons of the wild with the catapult the elastic circular garter the peashooter the rubber ball and such like appliances a mere setting up and knocking down of men tin murder the advance of civilization has swept such rude contests altogether from the play room we know them no more

chapter 2 the beginnings of modern little warfare

the beginning of the game of little war as we know it became possible with the invention of the spring...

Favorite Prayers Collection 1 (Pluralistic and Multilingual) Ave Marie Free Download.

ave maria for favorite prayers collection 1 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by ricardo de la martra ave maria ave maria grazia plena dominus tecum

end of ave maria recording by ricardo de la marter

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Favorite Prayers Collection 1 (Pluralistic and Multilingual) Ave Marie Free Download.

ave maria for favorite prayers collection 1 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by ricardo de la martra ave maria ave maria grazia plena dominus tecum

end of ave maria recording by ricardo de la marter

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