Animals / Ford Educational Weekly: Animal Antics Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Sheep grazing on hillside - kitten and puppy eat from same dish, boy plays with them - goose with goslings in farm yard - hens and chicks - turkeys and chickens. “Yes, we have lots to be thankful for, Mrs. Turkey makes reply.” Fowls in farm yard - chicks - baby birds in nest - pig with piglets. “12 o’clock.” Sow feeding piglets - Shetland pony with foal - calves, cow feeding calf - ewe and lamb - fawn resting under tree - hen with chicks - rabbits, young and adult - goose lures goslings into water - young kangaroo with mother - dog with puppies. [1919] b. “Ladies and Gentlemen, having bought your tickets step right this way.” Ducks on pond. “You won’t need a fur expert to tell you this seal is genuine.” Seal goes in and out of water, gets a fish each time out - keeper feeds seals - woman pets deer, horns in the velvet - man pets, feeds deer - large buck elk with horns in the velvet, keeper hand feeds him - yak - buffalo - coyotes - raccoons - bear in tree, crosses stream on log, re-crosses - bears in zoo - bird gets off eggs on ground - monkey’s sea lion - chimpanzee takes food from keeper. “A bale of hay would be a mouthful for this hippopotamus, in and out of water.” Elephant follows keeper across bridge and enters pool - water birds on pond - lion - keeper preparing meat for animals. “A Senegal lion, the King of them all.” Keepers feed lion, tigers. “Perhaps Barnum got his ‘hunch’ here.” Camels. “There’s the Red Fox, the Coyote, the Eskimo dog and the Australian Dingo.” “You may talk about the donkey but you should hear the Ze ‘bray.’” Yaks - llama - kangaroos - bears. [1919]
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