What the Animals Do and Say

Name: What the Animals Do and Say
Author: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

Pages: about 45
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 49 min at 250 wpm

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"Could you not tell us a traveller's story of some strange people that we have never heard of before?" said Harry to his mother, the next evening.
After a moment or two of thought, Mis. Chilton said, "Yes, I will tell you about a people who are great travellers. They take journeys every year of their lives. They dislike cold weather so much that they go always before winter, so as to find a warmer climate."
"They usually meet together, fathers, mothers, and children, as well as uncles, aunts, and cousins, but more especially grandfathers and grandmothers, and decide whither they shall go. As their party is so large, it is important that they should make a good decision."
"When they are all prepared, and their mind quite made up, they all set off together. I am told that they make as much noise, on this occasion, as our people make at a town-meeting; but as I was never present at one of the powwows of these remarkable travellers, I cannot say."
"It is the name the Indians give to their council meetings," replied Mis. Chilton.
She went on. "This people, so fond of travelling, have no great learning; they write no books; they have no geographies, no steamboats, no railroads, but yet never mistake their way."
"By no means; they have no more legs than any other great travellers; but you must not interrupt me."
"Well, to go back to our travellers; every one is ready and glad to prepare apartments for them, such as they like. They are so lively, so merry, and good-natured, that they find a welcome every where. They are such an easy, sociable set of folks that they like a house thus prepared for them just as well as if they had built it themselves."

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