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Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes I-II (1841)

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes I-II (1841)MUSEUM:INDEX Address to the Reader.My First Whistle.Origin of “The House that Jack Built.”CHAPTER IV.The Human Frame likened to a House.Chinese Spectacles.CHAPTER I.The Sailor’s Family.The Groom and the Horse;The Druids.The Re-entombment of Napoleon.What is Truth?Varieties.JACK FROST, A SONG Origin of Words and Phrases.The Pelican.John Steady and Peter Sly.The Three Friends.The Fox and the Tortoise;CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.Napoleon’s Last Obsequies.Our Ancestry.The Month of March.The Child and the Violets.Varieties.SPRING IS COMING! A SONG.CHAPTER VI.The Great Northern Diver, or Loon.CHAPTER IV.The Spectre of the Brocken.Trifles.CHAPTER III.The New Custom-House, Boston.The New Patent Office, Washington What sort of Heart have you got?Professions and Trades.What is Poetry?THE RIVER, A SONG.CHAPTER V.The Sun.Night.Queen Elizabeth, of England.Peter Pilgrim’s Account of his Schoolmates. No. 1.Hunting Wild Animals in Africa.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER IV.The Kingfisher and the Nightingale;Absence of Mind.Varieties.Death of the President.THE APRIL SHOWER, A SONG.CHAPTER VII.The Artists’ Cruise.CHAPTER V.CHAPTER II.Fanny Gossip and Susan Lazy;Antiquities of Egypt.A Drunkard’s Home.The Boastful Ass.Architecture of Birds.HYMN.CHAPTER VIII.The Humming-Birds.Madagascar.A Philosophical Tea-pot.Astonishing Powers of the Horse.The Moon.Importance of Attention:The Horse and the Bells,The Crane Family.CHAPTER III.The Shetland Pony.Instinct.Varieties.TEARS.ROBERT MERRY’S MUSEUM.CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.CHAPTER I.The Wolf that pretended to be robbed.Beware of Impatience.CHAPTER VII.CHAPTER IV.Lion Hunting.CHAPTER IX.Toucan The Newfoundland Dog.The Mysterious Artist.Peter Pilgrim’s Account of his Schoolmates. No. 2.Egyptian Schools.Varieties.THE BOY AND THE LARK.CHAPTER II.The Lion and the Mouse;CHAPTER X.Origin of Words and Phrases.CHAPTER IX.HYMN.The Sparrow and Robin;The Mysterious Artist.CHAPTER VI.The Alligator.Mungo Park and the Frogs.A Child lost in the Woods.AUTUMN.Chapter 109 CHAPTER XI.CHAPTER III.Habit.CHAPTER XII.The Oak and the Reed.Sincerity.The Hyena.Jewish Women.CHAPTER VI.An Incident from Ancient History.Saturday Night.Oliver Cromwell.Musings.THE BIRD’S ADIEU!CHAPTER XII.CHAPTER VII.CHAPTER IV.Wisdom of the Creator.Washington a Teacher to the Young.The Poet and the Child.The Ostrich.What do we mean by Nature?A Vision.The Sun and Wind.Habits which concern ourselves.Anecdotes of Haydn.The Fox and Raven;I don’t see why.CHAPTER VIII.Charles and his Mother.John Doree.UP IN THE MORNING EARLY.CHAPTER VIII.London.AURELIA AND THE SPIDER.Exotic Fruits and Flowers in England.Benevolence of the Deity.CHAPTER IX.The Rhinoceros.Briers and Berries.The Crows’ Court of Law.The Story of the Supposed Miser.The Mouth.Peter Pilgrim’s Account of his Schoolmates. No. 3.CHAPTER XIV.THE PILOT.CHAPTER XIII.A Little Child’s Joy.The Mammoth.Geordie and the Sick Dog.CHAPTER V.The Tongue.What is Selfishness?WINTER.CHAPTER XI.A Long Nap.Lord Bacon.Habits which concern Others.The Black Skimmer of the Seas.The Squirrel.Gothic Architecture.CHAPTER XIV.The Apple; a German Fable.The Pretender and his Sister.Winter.The Hand.Nuts to Crack.To the Black-ey’d and Blue-ey’d Friends of Robert Merry.WINTER—A SONG.THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE