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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... original trouble shirked because “ he is not accustomed to a bath . " As . for his " catching cold , " stuff and nonsense ! As well complain that the exertion of putting his bath ready for your bird has made you a cripple for life with ...
... original trouble shirked because “ he is not accustomed to a bath . " As . for his " catching cold , " stuff and nonsense ! As well complain that the exertion of putting his bath ready for your bird has made you a cripple for life with ...
الصفحة 50
... original evil . If patience and perse- verance , and gentler measures fail , and the matter is really one of life or death anyhow , then of course the scissors or lancet are your only alternative . Suppurating angry sores should be ...
... original evil . If patience and perse- verance , and gentler measures fail , and the matter is really one of life or death anyhow , then of course the scissors or lancet are your only alternative . Suppurating angry sores should be ...
الصفحة 52
... original disease . " " 66 Many persons I am aware totally object to the practice of books on birds treating of such " excessively shocking and unpleasant subjects " as diseases . True the theme is a most distasteful one , but what is to ...
... original disease . " " 66 Many persons I am aware totally object to the practice of books on birds treating of such " excessively shocking and unpleasant subjects " as diseases . True the theme is a most distasteful one , but what is to ...
الصفحة 63
... original expenditure , but actually made two guineas by the transaction ! When more cock than hen birds be desired , Dick should be younger than his mate ; if he be two , and she five years old all the better : when both parents are the ...
... original expenditure , but actually made two guineas by the transaction ! When more cock than hen birds be desired , Dick should be younger than his mate ; if he be two , and she five years old all the better : when both parents are the ...
الصفحة 107
... original task . Better therefore , be over scrupulous as to exactitude at the commencement of the course than to slur over any- thing slovenly in the belief of its " coming all right by- and - by . " That time never arrives , and ...
... original task . Better therefore , be over scrupulous as to exactitude at the commencement of the course than to slur over any- thing slovenly in the belief of its " coming all right by- and - by . " That time never arrives , and ...
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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.
الصفحة 14 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 29 - Norton. — Works by the Hon. Mrs. NORTON : — THE LADY OF LA GARAYE. With Vignette and Frontispiece. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4*.
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.