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The problem with a high horse is that you have to climb off it to pick up other people's rubbish

... aesthetic eye? These are the thoughts that trouble me as I climb off 16.2 hands for the umpteenth time to pick up some unsightly piece of garbage in a favourite place, to take it home. OF COURSE BY no means all the litter-bugs are children. A bicycle wheel ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1790 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

THE VISITING DOG

... but Bag, which consists a zip fa tener to dog from a chill deal of muddy an aspirin treatment; pick up heartily of worm Remedy on holiday Benbow's groups picked symptoms H ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1934
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1298 | Page: 92 | Tags: none

OF BIRDS

... garden of t his house for three years before I knew him, and cont inued to do so until 1933. H e became exceedingly tame, picking up scraps of food at the feet of the lady of the house, Mrs. G. Vidal, or of her sister, though he never took anything from ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

RATS AND

... refuse are much better than formerly, there is still very much roolll for improve- How frequently do we see garbage ment. How frequently do we see garbage st ill thrown about or tossed into uncovered receptacles to which rats have ready access. Again, efforts ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1910
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1429 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BIRDS ALONG AN INDIAN ROAD

... covered with flies. Myna , sleek and jaunty, picked up fallen trifles; Indian house sparrows pilfered with the confidence of their kind. Kites wheeled and screamed overhead, waiting to plunge for edible garbage; a pair of painted storks basked and preened ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1977
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1789 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

So thick were they these were tossed out from time to time. So thick were they that when I startled

... scavengers, were and cutting expected this more up the already n-pick that showing appreciate way birds doing in sort, which at he was some sort, s toop down the foul water, awful garbage hanging from his talons, so rate, was plain enough, although he ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1902
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1407 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

COUJVTRY LIFE

... rats that infested the ruins-and they were little else-to enter the mouth of this tunnel, probably for the purpose of picking up any garbage that had been floated down. It formed an excellent natural trap. an urchin put his head in at the lower end of the ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1903
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1450 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

K ENNEL . NOTE'S

... latter complaint are easily recognisable. Early evidences may be detected by a morbidity of appetite-a desire for picking up all sorts of garbage and unwholesome tbings, such as cinders, earth, stones and filth. The gums may become inflamed, the breath has ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1909
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 72 | Tags: none

S FASHION

... blurred elms A few onlookers, low-pitched house or two On a broad background green to the open carriage. Attention focused there picks on the child Cradled in love, family devotion, Splash of white in a dark phaeton. Degas, superb draughtsman, holds us enthralled ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1977
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1568 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

MAKING FRIENDS WITH WILD BIRDS

... the unbelievable garbage they offer to the birds beggar the imagination. One Summer evening not long ago, one of the boys concerned was seen to b waving about in the air the highly putrescent carcass of a muchdecayed fowl he had picked up somewhere. On ...

Published: Friday 02 November 1945
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1934 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

CORRESPO-NDENCE

... feathers and all. The food of the lesser black backs in the Westmorland colony consists chiefly of garbage and the shelllisl-i lmown as the tellen. Among the garbage may be mentioned slaughter-house refuse, hens' heads and feet, dead kittens, puffins and rats ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3792 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

ELEPHANT MEMORIES

... pieces of timber, with 8,560 ribs or arches, all encased by 12,0005 q ft of tin skin. With a trunk that was a pioneering garbage disposal system, ears that weigh 2,0001 b apiece, and with tusks that swoop forth for 22ft, she is the sole survivor of three ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2683 | Page: 92 | Tags: none