... and their bodies are covered with a wrapper, sprucely and neatly trimmed, and their mouths are muzzled t° prevent them picking garbage that lies the streets. All this precaution is necessary to fit them to take part the handicap. We train our pets with ...

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. To Landlords op London Rookeries. — A rose by any other name will smell as sweet.'' Yes; but not some Paradise rows in the back slums. Inopportune. — Newsboy (to irritable old gent wbo has just lost his train) : ?? Boy a comic paper ...

... scavenged on a Sunday morning? The purvey of newspapers to them no doubt portends perdition, and the picking up of all the filthy fried-fish paper and other garbage with which our roadways are strewn is doubtless a close second as a passport to the regions of ...

... kennels. All dogs are more or less scavengers by nature, and it is largely owing to this objectionable habit of picking up filthy garbage that the trluble first begins, so that we cannot be too strict upon this point. SYMPTOMS. —As a matter of fact, the ...

... and insufficieut food, and at times beaten with dreadful severity. The poor boy had often been seen by the neighbours picking up garbage and eating it to satisfy bis hunger, and even going to tbe pigs' trough and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs ...

... Allow him to range unchecked in the gntter, and he will throw np in profusion such light and elegant phrases as meanness,” garbage,” loathsome,” (fee., &o. They are his stock-in-trade, which he has drawn upon for many a year. He believes that he is conjuring ...

... lu Charles's time the pillory stood in Fleet - street, and the ugly face of Titus Oates, bespattered with rotten and foul garbage, leered through a. In the times of good Queen Anne came the Mohocks. and upset Sir Roger de Coverley, as Mr. Addison tells ...

... haa even tried answer Mr. Grant, either to his Dissenting World, or hia Dissenting Reasons for Joining the Church. The garbage picked up by the congenial taste of a genial contemporary, which conscientiously collect nothing else, is specimen, both of the ...

... dark corners where the amateurs of filth find garbage to their taste; but not, we repeat, from any master's hand. It ia vain to fc_tt na that there are scenes in Shakespeare himself which, if they were picked oat for special attention, would be offensive ...

... BARNSLEY COURT HOUSE. MONDAY.—Beforv T. E. Tatloe, Pocket Pickino Babbstet.— Dukes was charged under the Vagrant Act with pocket picking. Ellen Watkins, the prosecutrix, deposed that on Satnrday evening, while standing at stall in the Market Place, and engaged ...

... Intent is the mouth of a large river, especially where this is in • calm or landlocked harbour, &nil he greedily picks op all the garbage brought down by the str am. in such a neighbourhood the black triangular be which betra his presence is frequently ...

... them, bewailing the indignity, in broken mush in a garbage barrel. _ He stopped to scrape off his fingers on the edgo of it. “I can’t pick the ashes,” said at last. ‘Yon can pick up the box.” ' . v He picked up the box. Murphy handed him bis snatched sulkily ...