Home Life in All Lands
SIXTH IMPRESSION
HOME LIFE IN ALL LANDS
By CHARLES MORRIS
BOOK I
HOW THE WORLD LIVES
"It is the most intimate, and gives us the best idea of theordinary life of these strange people to whom our authorintroduces us. The volume is both interesting and valuable inan unusual degree. A capital book for school or home."
—The School Journal, New York.
One hundred and twelve illustrations. 316 pages.
BOOK II
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
OF UNCIVILIZED PEOPLES
"Excellent for school or home use. This volume deals with themanners and customs of uncivilized peoples. The illustrationsare well chosen and the style is admirable."—ProvidenceJournal.
One hundred illustrations. 322 pages.
BOOK III
ANIMAL FRIENDS AND
HELPERS
Fully illustrated. 340 pages.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA
Reproduced by permission of The Philadelphia Museums.
Transport Elephants, Perak, Federated Malay States
Home Life
in All Lands
BY
CHARLES MORRIS
Author of "Historical Tales," "History of the World,"
"History of the United States," etc.
Book III.
ANIMAL FRIENDS AND HELPERS
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Preface
In the earlier volumes of this series, man, as the maker of and dwellerin the home, was dealt with in the varied aspects of his existence. Butman is not the only occupant of the home. He has brought around himan interesting family of animals of great variety in form and habit,many of them kept as pets and companions, many aiding him in his sportsand his labors, others supplying him with meat, milk, butter, eggsand other forms of food. It is a varied and active sub-family of thehousehold, the barnyard and field with which we here propose to deal,its inmates varying in size from the lordly elephant to the busy bee,and in intelligence from the wide-awake dog to the stupid sheep, amultitude of running, flying, and swimming forms brought together fromevery domain of nature and serving man in a hundred ways.
The full story of this wider family of the