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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... poor and needy , either in purse or knowledge . If my observations serve the purpose of brightening the lot of even one , now unhappy , neglected songster , and increasing the narrow bounds of its enjoy- ments , my wish will be ...
... poor and needy , either in purse or knowledge . If my observations serve the purpose of brightening the lot of even one , now unhappy , neglected songster , and increasing the narrow bounds of its enjoy- ments , my wish will be ...
الصفحة 1
... to endure slight temporary inconvenience for the sake of a poor , helpless , dependent creature , and the quick eye , imme- B diately observant of the alternations in health , climate , CHAPTER ESSENTIALS TO BIRD-KEEPING.
... to endure slight temporary inconvenience for the sake of a poor , helpless , dependent creature , and the quick eye , imme- B diately observant of the alternations in health , climate , CHAPTER ESSENTIALS TO BIRD-KEEPING.
الصفحة 4
... poor suffer- ing victim is thrown upon your tender mercies , to be nursed back into health lost through your failure in this duty . More time is uselessly " lost " repairing the damage caused by selfish neglect , than can possibly be ...
... poor suffer- ing victim is thrown upon your tender mercies , to be nursed back into health lost through your failure in this duty . More time is uselessly " lost " repairing the damage caused by selfish neglect , than can possibly be ...
الصفحة 6
... poor helpless , defenceless captives . A child's life is too little of a reality for it to appreciate the importance of daily care ; its happy , volatile , imagi- nation is like the butterfly - too intent upon gathering the sweets of ...
... poor helpless , defenceless captives . A child's life is too little of a reality for it to appreciate the importance of daily care ; its happy , volatile , imagi- nation is like the butterfly - too intent upon gathering the sweets of ...
الصفحة 11
... the actual price higher than what is demanded for an enamelled metallic cage of the same size . Of course , if you already possess a stock of wooden cages , and are too poor to afford replacing them by others of superior III . ] II CAGES .
... the actual price higher than what is demanded for an enamelled metallic cage of the same size . Of course , if you already possess a stock of wooden cages , and are too poor to afford replacing them by others of superior III . ] II CAGES .
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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
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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.