| › The Ant - If you look at the sixth verse of the sixth chapter of Proverbs, you will read, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." A sl ...read |
| › The Ass - Perhaps you may have seen the ass, though it is not very common in this country. It has some resemblance to a horse, but is not as large, and generall ...read |
| › The Bear - Did you ever hear children say, "He is as cross as a bear? I hope it will never be said of you, for nobody loves a child who is selfish and unkind, o ...read |
| › The Bee - Although the bee is so small an animal, it is very well known; and many learned men have spent a great deal of time in observing it, and have written ...read |
| › The Camel - There are two or three varieties of the camel, but they do not differ from each other much more than our horses, some of which, the stout and strong, ...read |
| › The Dog - There are many dogs in the countries where the Bible was written, but the people do not like them as well as we do, and do not let them live about the ...read |
| › The Eagle - Did you ever see an eagle? There were once a great many among the rocks and mountains of our own country, but they will not stay where there are many ...read |
| › The Fox or Jackal - It is not quite certain whether the fox mentioned in the Bible is the same animal that we now call by that name. It probably means what we now call th ...read |
| › The Goat - There are two kinds of goat in the countries where the Bible was written; one very much like those that we sometimes see; the other differing from it ...read |
| › The Hart and Hind - Several animals of the deer kind are mentioned in the Bible under the names of Fallow-deer, Hart, Hind, and Roe-buck. They were all numbered among the ...read |
| › The Horse - There is a fine description of a war-horse in the book of Job-a book which some think to be the oldest in the world. It is in the thirty-ninth chapter ...read |
| › The Ibex or the Wild Goat - The Ibex is a kind of goat, but different from the one described at page 33. It is sometimes called the Rock Goat, or Wild Goat; and the last is the n ...read |
| › The Jerboa or Mouse - You will not find the name of the Jerboa in the Bible; but it is supposed to be the same animal that is called a mouse in the 17th verse of the 66th c ...read |
| › The Kite - The kite is mentioned but once or twice in the Bible. In Leviticus, 11 : 13,14, it is named among the birds which the Israelites were not allowed to u ...read |
| › The Leopard - The leopard is a beautiful animal, though very savage and cruel. It is about as large as the largest of our dogs, but it looks much more like a cat th ...read |
| › The Lion - You have seen pictures of the lion a hundred times, I suppose, and perhaps you have seen it alive; would you not like to know what the Bible says abou ...read |
| › The Locust - The locust is called an insect, as well as the ant and the bee, but instead of being harmless, as they usually are, it does a great deal of injury. It ...read |
| › The Mole - I remember but two places in the Bible where this animal is mentioned. One is in Leviticus, where it is named among the unclean animals which the Isra ...read |
| › The Night-Hawk - I believe this is the only animal of any kind mentioned in the Bible, the name of which begins with N. It is named in the 11th chapter of Leviticus, a ...read |
| › The Ostrich - The ostrich is sometimes called the "camel-bird," because it is so very large, because it can go a long time without water, and because it lives in ...read |
| › The Peacock - The peacock is first mentioned in the Bible in the time of Solomon. He used to send his vessels to distant countries, and they came back once in three ...read |
| › The Quail - The quail is about the size of a pigeon. It is called a bird of passage, because it does not always live in the same place, but spends the winter in o ...read |
| › The Raven - The raven has always been very well known to man, and is mentioned almost at the beginning of the Bible. You remember that this was the first bird tha ...read |
| › The Roe or Gazelle - The roe belongs to the class of antelopes-animals very much resembling the deer; they are equally innocent and beautiful, and are often mentioned toge ...read |
| › The Scorpion - This frightful creature is several times mentioned in the Bible. It is the largest among insects, and more dangerous than any of them. It is sometimes ...read |
| › The Sheep - I suppose you think you already know as much about sheep and lambs as I can tell you, and perhaps you do. Yet I dare say you never took up your Bible ...read |
| › The Stork - The Bible name of this bird means gentleness or affection, and the stork very well deserves such a name. It is very kind indeed to its young ones, and ...read |
| › The Turtle-Dove - This is a very beautiful and innocent bird, and no one is mentioned more frequently in the Bible. It does not live upon the flesh of animals: so when ...read |
| › The Unicorn - There is only this animal mentioned in the Bible, the name of which begins with U, and of this I cannot give you a picture, because no person now know ...read |
| › The Vulture - The vulture is called a bird of prey, because it lives on flesh; but it has not such strong claws as the eagle, to seize and tear its food. It does no ...read |
| › The Whale - The whale is mentioned in the first chapter of the Bible, 21st verse. "And God created great whales." Some suppose that large fish of every kind are ...read |
| › The Wolf - The wolf is rather larger than our largest dogs, and looks somewhat like them; but he seems more wild, savage and cruel. The wolves go in large compan ...read |
