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Excerpt from The Animal Story Book Children who have read our Fairy Books may have noticed that there are not so very many fairies in the stories after all. The most common éharacters are birds, beasts, and fishes, who talk and act like Christians. The reason of this is that the first peo ple who told the stories were not very clever, or, if they were clever, they had never been taught to read and write, or to distinguish between Vegetable, Ani mal, and Mineral. They took it that all things were 'much of a muchness: they were not proud, and held that beast and bird could talk like themselves, only, of course, in a different language. 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.