Birds, Their Cages and Their Keep: Being a Practical Manual of Bird-keeping and Bird-rearingMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 177 من الصفحات |
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... delight , that your tiny protégé appears to have learnt the secret of perpetual motion as well as that of endless song . No rational being ever dreams of tying up a starving dog in a kennel dirty as a pigstye , with a bone beyond his ...
... delight , that your tiny protégé appears to have learnt the secret of perpetual motion as well as that of endless song . No rational being ever dreams of tying up a starving dog in a kennel dirty as a pigstye , with a bone beyond his ...
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... delightful work ( the " Book of Birds " ) " summer rape seed " is strongly recommended as " the staple article of diet , " signifying that there are two sorts , one of which is acrid and unwholesome . I have found , how- ever , from ...
... delightful work ( the " Book of Birds " ) " summer rape seed " is strongly recommended as " the staple article of diet , " signifying that there are two sorts , one of which is acrid and unwholesome . I have found , how- ever , from ...
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... delightful " Book of Birds , " advocates syringing both bird and cage infected with red mites in tobacco water , in the proportion of 14oz . of tobacco to three half - pints of water , washing them in this two or three times daily till ...
... delightful " Book of Birds , " advocates syringing both bird and cage infected with red mites in tobacco water , in the proportion of 14oz . of tobacco to three half - pints of water , washing them in this two or three times daily till ...
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... delight was to perch on the pen with which anyone was writing , and do his utmost to catch the flying nib ; if successful and rewarded by a beakful of ink , away went Dick splutter- ing and scolding with rage , and forgetful of the past ...
... delight was to perch on the pen with which anyone was writing , and do his utmost to catch the flying nib ; if successful and rewarded by a beakful of ink , away went Dick splutter- ing and scolding with rage , and forgetful of the past ...
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... delightful degree , and refuse altogether to sing if they object to the papering of the room in which the cage is hung . Others again cannot be induced ever to keep quiet , and consequently pass half their time beneath piled up anti ...
... delightful degree , and refuse altogether to sing if they object to the papering of the room in which the cage is hung . Others again cannot be induced ever to keep quiet , and consequently pass half their time beneath piled up anti ...
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الصفحة 48 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
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الصفحة 29 - Nine Years Old.— By the Author of "St. Olave's," "When I was a Little Girl," &c. Illustrated by FROLICH. Third Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth gilt. $s. 6d. It is believed that this story, by the favourably known author of " St. Olave's," will be found both highly interesting and instructive to the young.
الصفحة 2 - FJiofs style. . . . Her stories could not be other than they are, as literal as truth, as romantic as fiction, full of pathetic touches and strokes of genuine humour. . . . All the stories are studies of actual life, executed with no mean art.