Adventures of a Young Naturalist. Lucien Biart
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Название: Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Автор: Lucien Biart

Издательство: Bookwire

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       Lucien Biart

      Adventures of a Young Naturalist

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066240103

       INTRODUCTION.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       CHAPTER XXV.

       CHAPTER XXVI.

       CHAPTER XXVII.

       CHAPTER XXVIII.

       CHAPTER XXIX.

       CHAPTER XXX.

       CHAPTER XXXI.

       CHAPTER XXXII.

       CHAPTER XXXIII.

       Table of Contents

      The evening before leaving for one of my periodical excursions, I was putting in order my guns, my insect-cases, and all my travelling necessaries, when my eldest son, a lad nine years old, came running to me in that wheedling manner—using that irresistible diplomacy of childhood which imposes on fathers and mothers so many troublesome treaties, and which children so well know how to assume when they desire to obtain a favor.

      "Are you going to make as long a journey as you did last month?" he asked.

      "Longer, I think; for, as we are so soon leaving for Europe, I want to complete my collection as rapidly as possible. I know you will be a good boy during my absence, and obedient to your mother. You will think of me sometimes, will you not?"

      "I should much prefer not to think of you," he responded.

      "You would rather, then, that I staid at Orizava?"

      "Oh no; I should like you to go, and—to go with you."

      "What can you be thinking of? Before we were a mile on the road you would be knocked up, complaining of heat, thirst, fatigue—"

      "That's quite a mistake, dear father. I know I should be very useful to you, if you would only take me. I could pick up wood, light the fire, and look after the cooking, besides catching butterflies and insects, both for your collection and mine."

      "That's all very well; but the first time you were scratched by a thorn you would cry."

      "Oh father! I promise you I will never cry, except when—I can't help it."

      I could not resist smiling at this answer.

      "Then it is a settled thing, and I am to go with you," exclaimed Lucien.

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