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| Keywords: bookid:stnicholasserial4311dodg bookidstnicholasserial4311dodg bookyear:1873 bookyear1873 bookdecade:1870 bookdecade1870 bookcentury:1800 bookcentury1800 bookauthor:dodge__mary_mapes__1830_1905 bookauthordodgemarymapes18301905 booksubject:children_s_literature booksubjectchildrensliterature bookpublisher:_new_york___scribner___co__ bookpublishernewyorkscribnerco bookcontributor:information_and_library_science_library__university_of_north_carolina_at_chapel_hill bookcontributorinformationandlibrarysciencelibraryuniversityofnorthcarolinaatchapelhill booksponsor:university_of_north_carolina_at_chapel_hill booksponsoruniversityofnorthcarolinaatchapelhill bookleafnumber:725 bookleafnumber725 bookcollection:juvenilehistoricalcollection bookcollectionjuvenilehistoricalcollection bookcollection:unclibraries bookcollectionunclibraries bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana whalebone outdoor photo border Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg Title: St. Nicholas [serial] Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 Subjects: Children's literature Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.] Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: GROSBEAKS. Like flowers and trees, birds are closely depen-dent on the weather. How little change there isfor weeks after the first skunk-cabbage is seen,or the first pussy-willow blooms ! Then as thedays grow warmer, the woods are suddenly filledwith flowers and the trees thickly covered withleaves; and with them come the birds. From this glance at the birds time-table, wehave learned that nearly every month in the yearhas its bird travelers. This is one of the reasonswhy the study of birds is so interesting. There is 462 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Mar., always something happening in the birds world.Some one is coming or some one is going. Weare continually greeting old friends or makingnew ones. Will it not add greatly to our pleasure to knowwhere they have been and whither they arebound ? AN ARCH MADE OF A WHALES JAWS Text Appearing After Image: In the beautiful Alameda Gardens of Gibraltarstands a curious archway made of the two jaw-bones of a whale. Although a whales throat ishardly larger than a mans head, the jaws arehuge—a fact that is graphically shown by thephotograph which we print herewith. SPRUCING UP A BATTLE-SHIP You boys watch ships with interest. Clean andgraceful and mysteriously outward bound, theycannot help fascinating a boys mind. But didyou ever stop to wonder what the part of theship that is under water looks like ? Or did youjust imagine that it was as immaculate as thedeck? Indeed it is not. Instead, it is as whisk-ered as Santa Claus. The whiskers are bar-nacles and all sorts of long slimy marine growths,which must be shaved off every so often. Butthe razor has never been invented that would shave something that is 25 feet under water. Sowhat do they do ? They put the ship into a hugedry-dock, run the water out until the great hull iscompletely exposed to the air, and then scrape it.Often, as well as Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg Title: St. Nicholas [serial] Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 Subjects: Children's literature Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.] Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: GROSBEAKS. Like flowers and trees, birds are closely depen-dent on the weather. How little change there isfor weeks after the first skunk-cabbage is seen,or the first pussy-willow blooms ! Then as thedays grow warmer, the woods are suddenly filledwith flowers and the trees thickly covered withleaves; and with them come the birds. From this glance at the birds time-table, wehave learned that nearly every month in the yearhas its bird travelers. This is one of the reasonswhy the study of birds is so interesting. There is 462 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Mar., always something happening in the birds world.Some one is coming or some one is going. Weare continually greeting old friends or makingnew ones. Will it not add greatly to our pleasure to knowwhere they have been and whither they arebound ? AN ARCH MADE OF A WHALES JAWS Text Appearing After Image: In the beautiful Alameda Gardens of Gibraltarstands a curious archway made of the two jaw-bones of a whale. Although a whales throat ishardly larger than a mans head, the jaws arehuge—a fact that is graphically shown by thephotograph which we print herewith. SPRUCING UP A BATTLE-SHIP You boys watch ships with interest. Clean andgraceful and mysteriously outward bound, theycannot help fascinating a boys mind. But didyou ever stop to wonder what the part of theship that is under water looks like ? Or did youjust imagine that it was as immaculate as thedeck? Indeed it is not. Instead, it is as whisk-ered as Santa Claus. The whiskers are bar-nacles and all sorts of long slimy marine growths,which must be shaved off every so often. Butthe razor has never been invented that would shave something that is 25 feet under water. Sowhat do they do ? They put the ship into a hugedry-dock, run the water out until the great hull iscompletely exposed to the air, and then scrape it.Often, as well as Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. | ||||
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