The Pelican

Collect all pages-cleaned and sized to make a miniature
book for your dolls

Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Pelican's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the bird illustrations and verse from "Bird Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

Here is old Mr. Pelican,
He is a famous fisherman;
Said he: "I do not mind wet feet
If I catch fish enough to eat."

Additional Content:

THE PELICAN LAUGHED TOO SOON

      'SUCH LEGS! " said the Pelican, laughing.
       "What is the matter with them?" asked the Stork.
       'The matter!" said the Pelican.
       "Why, matter enough. They are the most ungainly looking things that ever grew on a bird. You could sell part of them for telegraph poles, and still have plenty left. Or you might have them made into hat pins. They're thin enough, dear knows. And they're so long that you could get dozens of hat pins out of them. In fact, they would do for any number of purposes; but as for legs - ho! ho! ho!" And the impolite Pelican laughed and laughed.
       And the more the Pelican laughed, the sadder the Stork seemed to get. Maybe he wasn't really sad, but he has such a long face that you would think he felt badly about a thing even if he did not. It is strange, too, isn't it? For you would suppose that a Bird whose business it is to bring babies from Fairyland would be always smiling, wouldn't you? But, then, perhaps the Stork does all his smiling inside, so that it would not show on his bill or in his eyes.
       Now, neither of the Birds saw the Crocodile coming from the water until he had come quite close to them, and then the Stork easily stepped out of his way, but the Pelican, with his short legs, could not. In a moment the Crocodile had grabbed the Pelican and pulled him into the water. There they fought and fought, while Mr. Stork stood and watched them. But after a while the Crocodile opened his jaws to get a better hold, and then the Pelican escaped. He would have gotten away all right, only his legs were so short that the Crocodile caught him by a wing and drew him back. " Sorry!" said the Stork as he went away, "but you notice my legs do very well to walk with!"
       So the Pelican had laughed too soon. And, anyway, I am of the, opinion that either birds or folks who wish to have fun at the expense of others should do their laughing, as the Stork does, inside! Henry Altemus Company.

 

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