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Saturday, February 11, 2017

"Color The Coast" free coloring book

This free coloring book for students was published by The Florida Office of Coastal Management in 1980. It was illustrated by Randy McCaulley and uploaded to the internet archive by The Florida State Library. It teaches students how to keep their coastal environment clean.

"Learning About Florida Invaders" coloring book

A educational coloring book by CAPS.

Science teachers may wish to acquire this free coloring book for their classrooms.

"Learning About Florida Invaders is sponsored by the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS), a group of state and federal inspectors that monitor Florida for unwanted exotic invasive pests. To learn more about CAPS, visit FreshFromFlorida.com."

This coloring book has been designated for educational use by the Florida Division of Library and Information Services at The Internet Archive.

Make way for the circus wedding!

Description of Coloring Page: lion costumes, bride and groom, holding the bride's train, people dressed for a parade, top hat, flowers

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Give this clown a face before coloring him in.

Description of Coloring Page: This clown needs a face., ruffled collar, tiny hat, feather, head of a clown

Look out for giraffes in the circus parade!

Description of Coloring Pages: drum, beating a drum, people dressed in costume, circus parade, Mardi Gras parade, clowns, clown cart, man dressed as monkey, people inside giraffe costume

Thursday, February 9, 2017

The tortoise and the two ducks coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: two ducks, wings, turtle, shell, cloud, grass, pebbles, riverbed

Light-brain'd tortoise, anciently,

Tired of her hole, the world would see.

Prone are all such, self-banish'd, to roam

Prone are all cripples to abhor their home.

Two ducks, to whom the gossip told

The secret of her purpose bold,

Profess'd to have the means whereby

They could her wishes gratify.

"Our boundless road," said they, "behold!

It is the open air;

And through it we will bear

You sate o'er land and ocean.

Republics, kingdoms, you will view,

And famous cities, old and new;

And get of customs, laws, a notion,

Of various wisdom various pieces,

As did, indeed, the sage Ulysses."

The eager tortoise waited not

To question what Ulysses got,

But closed the bargain on the spot.

A nice machine the birds devise

To bear their pilgrim through the skies.

Athwart her mouth a stick they throw:

"Now bite it hard, and don't let go,"

They say, and seize each duck an end,

And, swiftly flying, upward tend.

It made the people gape and stare

Beyond the expressive power of words,

To see a tortoise cut the air,

Exactly poised between two birds.

"A miracle," they cried, "is seen!

There goes the flying tortoise queen!"

" The queen!" ('twas thus the tortoise spoke;)

"I'm truly that, without a joke."

Much better had she held her tongue,

For, opening that whereby she clung,

Before the gazing crowd she fell,

And dash'd to bits her brittle shell.

Meaning of Fable:

Imprudence, vanity, and babble

An ever-undivided rabble,

And idle curiosity,

Have all the same paternity.

The two asses coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: donkeys, asses, road, countryside, trees, landscape, sky,

TWO asses tracking, t'other day,

Of which each in his turn,

Did incense to the other burn,

Quite in the usual way,

I heard one to his comrade say,

"My lord, do you not find

The prince of knaves and fools

To be this man, who boasts of mind

Instructed in his schools?

With wit unseemly and profane,

He mocks our venerable race

On each of his who lacketh brain

Bestows our ancient surname, ass!

And, with abusive tongue portraying,

Describes our laugh and talk as braying!

These bipeds of their folly tell us,

While thus pretending to excel us."

" No, 'tis for you to speak, my friend,

And let their orators attend.

The braying is their own, but let them be:

We understand each other, and agree,

And that's enough. As for your song,

Such wonders to its notes belong,

The nightingale is put to shame,

The Sirens lose one half their fame."

"My lord," the other ass replied,

"Such talents in yourself reside,

Of asses all, the joy and pride."

These donkeys, not quite satisfied

With scratching thus each other's hide,

Must needs the cities visit,

Their fortunes there to raise,

By sounding forth the praise,

Each, of the other's skill exquisite.

Fable Meaning: Every ass likes to hear himself bray.

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The sun and the frogs coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: swamp, frogs, cat tails, stun, trees water, gather

Rejoicing on their tyrant's wedding-day,

The people drown'd their care in drink;

While from the general joy did AEsop shrink,

And show'd its folly in this way.

"The sun," said he, " once took it in his head

To have a partner: so he wed.

From swamps, and ponds, and marshy bogs,

Up rose the wailings of the frogs.

"What shall we do, should he have progeny?"

Said they to Destiny;

'One sun we scarcely can endure,

And half-a-dozen, we are sure,

Will dry the very sea.

Adieu to marsh and fen!

Our race will perish then,

Or be obliged to fix

Their dwelling in the Styx!'

For such an humble animal,

The frog, I take it, reason'd well'

Fable Meaning: Humble creatures choose wisely.

The countryman and the serpent coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: snake, animal nature, forked tongue, porridge , bowl of it, boots, seated, spoon, eating

A COUNTRYMAN, as AEsop certifies,

A charitable man, but not so wise,

One day in winter found,

Stretch'd on the snowy ground,

A chill'd or frozen snake,

As torpid as a stake,

And, if alive, devoid of sense.

He took him up, and bore him home,

And, thinking not what recompense

For such a charity would come,

Before the fire stretch'd him,

And back to being fetch'd him.

The snake scarce felt the genial heat

Before his heart with native malice beat.

He raised his head, thrust out his forked tongue,

Coil'd up, and at his benefactor sprung.

" Ungrateful wretch ! " said he, " is this the way

My care and kindness you repay?

Now you shall die." With that his axe he takes,

And with two blows three serpents makes.

Trunk, head, and tail were separate snakes;

And, leaping up with all their might,

They vainly sought to reunite.

Fable Meaning:

'Tis good and lovely to be kind ;

But charity should not be blind ;

For as to wretchedness ingrate,

You cannot raise it from its wretched state.

The carter in the mire coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: country road, farmer, ocean, horses, cart of hay

The phaeton who drove a load of hay

Once found his cart bemired.

Poor man! the spot was far away

From human help retired,

In some rude country place,

In Brittany, as near as I can trace,

Near Quimper Corentan,

A town that poet never sang,

Which Fate, they say, puts in the traveller's path,

When she would rouse the man to special wrath.

May Heaven preserve us from that route!

But to our carter, hale and stout:

Fast stuck his cart; he swore his worst,

And, fill'd with rage extreme,

The mud-holes now he cursed,

And now he cursed his team,

And now his cart and load,

Anon, the like upon himself bestow'd.

Upon the god he call'd at length,

Most famous through the world for strength.

"O, help me, Hercules!" cried he; "for if thy back of yore

This burly planet bore, thy arm can set me free."

This prayer gone up, from out a cloud there broke

A voice which thus in godlike accents spoke:

"The suppliant must himself bestir,

Ere Hercules will aid confer.

Look wisely in the proper quarter,

To see what hindrance can be found ;

Remove the execrable mud and mortar,

Which, axle-deep, beset thy wheels around.

Thy sledge and crowbar take,

And pry me up that stone, or break;

Now fill that rut upon the other side.

Hast done it? ' "Yes," the man replied.

"Well," said the voice, "I'll aid thee now ;

Take up thy whip." "I have . . . but, how?

My cart glides on with ease!

I thank thee, Hercules."

"Thy team," rejoin'd the voice, "has light ado;

So help thyself, and Heaven will help thee too."

Fable Meaning: Pagans believe that heaven helps those, who help themselves.

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The rat and the oyster coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: rat, seagull, shore, pebbles, oysters, shallow water, ocean waves, nature's trap

A COUNTRY rat, of little brains,

Grown weary of inglorious rest,

Left home with all its straws and grains,

Resolved to know beyond his nest.

When peeping through the nearest fence,

"How big the world is, how immense! "

He cried; " there rise the Alps, and that

Is doubtless famous Ararat."

His mountains were the works of moles,

Or dirt thrown up in digging holes!

Some days of travel brought him where

The tide had left the oysters bare.

Since here our traveller saw the sea,

He thought these shells the ships must be.

"My father was, in truth," said he,

"A coward, and an ignoramus;

He dared not travel: as for me,

I've seen the ships and ocean famous;

Have cross'd the deserts without drinking,

And many dangerous streams unshrinking.'

Among the shut-up shell-fish, one

Was gaping widely at the sun;

It breathed, and drank the air's perfume,

Expanding, like a flower in bloom.

Both white and fat, its meat

Appear'd a dainty treat.

Our rat, when he this shell espied,

Thought for his stomach to provide.

"If not mistaken in the matter,"

Said he, "no meat was ever fatter,

Or in its flavor half so fine,

As that on which to-day I dine."

Thus full of hope, the foolish chap

Thrust in his head to taste,

And felt the pinching of a trap

The oyster closed in haste.

Now those to whom the world is new

Are wonder-struck at every view;

And the marauder finds his match

When he is caught who thinks to catch.

Fable Meaning: "When the hunter becomes the hunted . . . "

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The dog and his master's dinner coloring page

Coloring Page Description: dogs, cobblestone street, street corner, wooden fence, satchel carry,

Our eyes are not made proof against the fair,

Nor hands against the touch of gold.

Fidelity is sadly rare,

And has been from the days of old.

Well taught his appetite to check,

And do full many a handy trick,

A dog was trotting, light and quick,

His master's dinner on his neck.

A temperate, self-denying dog was he,

More than, with such a load, he liked to be.

But still he was, while many such as we

Would not have scrupled to make free.

Strange that to dogs a virtue you may teach,

Which, do your best, to men you vainly preach !

This dog of ours, thus richly fitted out,

A mastiff met, who wish'd the meat, no doubt.

To get it was less easy than he thought :

The porter laid it down and fought.

Meantime some other dogs arrive :

Such dogs are always thick enough,

And, fearing neither kick nor cuff,

Upon the public thrive.

Our hero, thus o'ermatch'd and press'd,

The meat in danger manifest,

Is fain to share it with the rest ;

And, looking very calm and wise,

" No anger, gentlemen," he cries :

" My morsel will myself suffice ;

The rest shall be your welcome prize."

With this, the first his charge to violate,

He snaps a mouthful from his freight.

Then follow mastiff, cur, and pup,

Till all is cleanly eaten up.

Not sparingly the party feasted,

And not a dog of all but tasted.

The Fable Meaning:

In some such manner men abuse

Of towns and states the revenues.

'The sheriffs, aldermen, and mayor

Come in for each a liberal share.