#dan beard

This image of Mordred as he appears in CT Yankee book makes me imagine the world if we got the Russian movie with Mordred and horse armored like this!!!! I wish it was more than 2 pixels but what can you do. That’s it that’s the ask<3

WAHHH LOOK AT HIM!!!!! MY BOY!!!!!!!

well you're in luck, because i did some digging and i found the CT Yankee edition illustrated by Dan Beard! Look at our boy!

Another Mordred this time facing against Arthur !!!!

Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance. Dan Beard. Trenton, New Jersey: Albert Brandt: Publisher, 1904. Illustrations by Dan Beard. New edition. 

Science Saturday

This week we are diving into the realm of popular natural history with the American Boys Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles by Dan Beard; with illustrations by the author. It was published by the J. B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia in 1915. The colored plate features insects from the American Museum of Natural History. Daniel Carter Beard was the founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone youth program that later merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. This book is a guide to insects with tips for catching, collecting, and preserving specimens. It is specifically targeted at boys, but it follows in a long tradition of teaching young people about the natural world because it was considered a wholesome pastime activity.  

Beard wrote in the introduction:

“Among the little folk of this world known as the insects, we find almost as many traits of character as we do among the human beings. We have the idle insects, the industrious insects, the warlike insects, the robber insects, the dead-beat insects, the stupid insects and the intelligent insects. We also have among them the low, degraded insects, dirty insects, clean insects, the sluggish slow-moving insects, the bright lively insects, the useful insects and the beautiful insects; all of them interesting, all of them in one way or another are of vast importance to man, and a study of their habits is not only a source of fun but it is also a most useful study. Besides which, boys, nature lovers live longer and happier lives than ordinary people!”

Today’s post features examples of Lepidoptera, the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths.

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Wisdom of Dan Beard

On Loneliness

“When you feel you are sleeping on the breast of your mother, the earth, while your father, the sky, with his millions of eyes is watching over you, and that you are surrounded by your brother, the plants, the wilderness is no longer lonesome even to the solitary traveler.”

nemfrog:

House, horse, man and turtle with and without their outer layers. Health lessons. 1887.