A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to Nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describes the super-human intelligence to be found by the discerning among our kindred of the wild. All those who love gentle humor will be entertained by the whimsical story of "Little Upsidaisi," and no reader can fail to laugh at the antics of "Jagg, the Skootaway Goat." The Illustrations by Peter Newell are in this clever artist's happiest vein and bring out to the full humor of the text.

The Book of Clever Beasts

The Book of Clever BeastsbyMyrtle Reed

Excerpt from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History was written by Myrtle Reed in 1904. This is a 261 page book, containing 45613 words and 19 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. 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.

Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet, journalist and philanthropist who wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green. This work, subtitled Studies in Unnatural History, received a warm letter of appreciation from President Theodore Roosevelt when it was published in 1904. This edition is illustrated throughout by the American artist and writer, Peter Newell, who built a reputation for his humorous drawings in the 1880s and 90s when his work appeared in numerous magazines. He also illustrated books by Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Stephen Crane and many others, as well as his own children's books.