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TOBOGGANING AT DAVOS PLATZ

... To the Mountains of the Moon. By J. E. S. Moore, P.R.G.S. (Hurst and Blackett). A few years ago a missionary found somo jelly-fish in the fresh water of Lake Tangan yika, and placing them in a bottle he sent them home to Oxford, and from this apparently ...

A FEW HINTS TO WILDFOWLING BEGINNERS

... pore man's bread out of his mouth! Why the doan't yeow keep a' tome wi' that there pop-gun? Yeow ain't gawt the sense of a jelly-fish and so on, with adjectives racy of the mud. If you wish to exorcise the demon you have raised, you must swear that you shot ...

THE REAL LETTERS OF A MIDSHIPMITE

... full of horrid marine monsters. I spent my time chasing small fish in shallow water and rush ing away from cuttlefish and jellyfish. Walking on a sea urchin is not pleasant. We were watched while we were feeding by the whole of the inhabitants of the village ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 908 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

LAZY LEAVES FROM: THE: DIARY OF-AN-IDLE-SUMMER: XI.--A QUESTION OF GARDENS AND BEAN-FEASTS

... give it enough beer to swim in, and, by the time the brakes gathered them up for the evening train, they were as limp as jelly-fish and as drunk as a Mafficking Night. They say in Maychester that they were bean- feasters fr' Lunnon. I hope, for the credit ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1161 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

A STUDY IN MAROON

... excellent swimmer. But with the thought came a sudden misgiving there were sharks occasionally on this coast she had heard, and jelly-fish. Besides, the best swimmers in the world were liable to cramp. Supposing supposing he was drowned The horror of this surmise ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1908
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2362 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE AMERICAN PRISONER

... now., I cannot trust her there longer, with that rogue on the a prowl. I'll deal with Lee finally. Hasten, hasten, my bold jellyfish your fortune depends on't Relton Norcot, trembling in every limb, entered the house, while Peter, 'familiar with the land ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 6600 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations