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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 ...

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 ...

AWKWARD THINGS TO MEET WHILE SWIMMING THE CHANNEL

... by Ullyett. During his great swim across the Channel, Burgess has mentioned, he was a good deal troubled by the stings of jelly-fish. He might think himself lucky, however, that he did not meet any of the creatures whose portraits are given on this page ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Devil's Call-Boy

... regard the Kaiser as a devil. So he may be. But think what a useful devil he is. Before his menace some millions of human jelly-fish have realised that, after all, they are men. This Kaiser has stiffened the world. He has made a fine sweep of picture-palaces ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1884 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Only Girl at the Apollo Theatre: THE CELIBATE WITH A SOFT HEART

... therefore II!; I J he does not go into the sea. That 1 means that matrimony is the sea, V and that women are dear, dear y II jellyfish. (Boy, go out and get that J. ;H man's scalp at once.) Three of Kimbrough's cronies thereupon con- fess that they have decided ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1480 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SILVER HARVEST

... weavers with a nasty line of poisonous fins, and perhaps a big fat cod twisted in the folds of netting. Long soapy strings of jelly-fish flop all over the deck, and you give them as wide a berth as you do the weavers, while occa sionally there is a yell from ...

IF SUMMER DON'T

... as follows You could always see every point of view except one, and that was your wife's. Once or twice the sting of your jelly-fish of a conscience made you try to be nice to me. There are words and 'acts from a man to a woman which may be lovely to the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2210 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

CANINE CONSIDERATIONS: Temperaments with Tails to Them

... bipeds are apt to fancy we possess a monopoly of many qualities which, in fact, we share with all sorts of other beings, from jelly-fish to jaguars. What we call temperament, for instance-- any amount of it among Dogs, I can assure you. (Did you know, by ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations