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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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these tusks as hooks tohelp in pulling himself over the rocks and shoals of thesummer breeding-grounds. Why doesnt he eat seaAveed ? said Dodo. Ishould think it would be a great deal of trouble toopen clams enough to feed such a mense thing ! All of this tribe of Pinnipeds, as the Wise Men callthem, live chiefly on animal food, said the Doctor, their teeth showing them to be flesh eating or car-niv-o-rous, but Olaf will tell you that they do not stop toopen the clams — they are not so dainty in their fish-ing as the Crows ! No, they swallow them by the bushel, shells andall, continued Olaf. If it hurts them or not, whocan say, for they tell no one their secrets, but it maybe that they are complaining when they cry and roar,as they do at all times of the year, with a growlinghonk that might be the call of a wild goose goblin.Sometimes in the spring and early summer, the seasonof cool fog on the northwest breeding islands, I havestood on a cliff and could not tell by sight alone if it
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Atlantic Tvalkus. A SEALSKIN JACKET AT HOME 285 was ocean all about me — then I would hear their honkbelow, different in key from the roar of the Sea Lion. Arent they awfully fierce beasts to meet ? askedRap. They look fierce, and when killed with spear orharpoon may give the whaler or Eskimo some scarsor crush him by rolling their ton weight on him, intheir terror to get back from land to sea. But thatis all, and how can such a piece of clumsiness long es-cape extermination if he is hunted persistently withthe rifle? Are they good for much? asked Nat. Of courseyou couldnt use that ugly skin to make fur coats, anddaddy says that the oil from wells in the ground iseasier to get nowadays than animal oil. We could do without them well enough, but theymean food and clothes, heat, light, and life itself to thepoor Eskimos. Even with the Walrus, life to them isnot easy; without him it means awful, slow starvation.Listen to what the Walrus gives. First of all, hiscoarse meat is the Eskimos

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