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The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
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About This Book

A witty collector of natural anecdotes relocates to a rural cabin with his cat and keeps an observation ledger while recounting a series of animal sketches. Each chapter treats a different creature through humorous, anthropomorphic episodes that mix mock-scientific classification, imaginative field notes, and playful illustration. The pieces alternate between gentle satire of nature-writing and affectionate portraits of animal behavior, closing with an appendix and bibliographic acknowledgments that situate the lighthearted vignettes within contemporary natural-history reading.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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“She made them gallop around an imaginary ring” Frontispiece
 
“Instinctively, I followed them” 20
 
“There was something very human in the grateful look he gave me just before closing his eyes” 36
 
“Her little hand rested confidingly in his great paw” 68
 
“She arrived on the fair, open page of my observation ledger, sooty, panting, but thoroughly happy” 94
 
“Put the crotch under his wing, and with this improvised crutch, went back to the cabin” 116
 
“Hoop-La sat beside me, with her hands on her sides, rocking and swaying in a spasm of merriment” 154
 
“In plain sight of the whole school, punished him severely with a lady’s slipper” 186
 
“Coquetting like lovers on a moonlight night” 204