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Excerpt from Tame Animals I Have Known: With Apologies to Such Wild Animals as May Feel Aggrieved by Comparision I believe, as also do Mr. Thompson-seton and others, that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. What satisfaction would be derived from a ten page sketch of the habits and the customs of Ani mals in general? How much more gossipy and profitable it would be to devote that space to some particular individual. This is the principle I have endeavored to apply to my Animals. The real personality of the individual and his View of life are my theme, rather than the ways of the race in general, as viewed by a casual and hostile human eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.