... as in the picture, have wooden barrels strapped to their backs these have long sticks with hooks at the end with which they pick up what comes in their way, and manage very skilfully and rapidly to whirl the bits over their shoulders into the receptacle ...

... from every side of the smoking ruins were heard the piteous mewings of neglected cats, while dogs were seen devouring any garbage they could find. One correspondent saw a dog eating a kid glove from a parcel of loot which had been abandoned or forgotten ...

... asphalted. ine stream, nowever, pure enougn aoove uie city, ib xicic a uuuy black flood, into which every imaginable kind of garbage is cast, and in which women riiay be seen washing out filthy rags, tanners placing sheepskins to soak, and dyers pouring out ...

... floating hither and thither on the surfaco of the water in the immediate neighbourhood of the net. These it is quito allowable to pick up, but some people do not esteem that privilege sufficient, and ■many a score of fish are dipped up from tho net itself when ...

... between my old playmate and myself. Mrs. Denzil is in the drawing-room, ma'am, announced Jane, and we joyfully left the garbage we were sorting and went to be cheered by the gayest, maddest mortal in our countryside. Mrs. Denzil had a husband out in ...

... Avalon, the capital of the island. They are exceedingly tame, and some of the older birds will allow one of the fishermen to pick them up and caress them. Every after- noon they take up their quarters on the beach, and wait for the rejectmenta of the fishing ...

... thoughtfully that he hadn't seen the matter in that light. Still,' says he, the blamed submarine looks like the broken end of a garbage-destructor. We allowed the matter to drop until the fifth night, when the Japs started manoeuvring their submarine against ...

... OF A SPHINX. By HAROLD BLIND. HE slept between the paws of the Sphinx by Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. The garbage-tank Vane Tempest sloshed down stream on her journey to the sea, and I think it was the churn of her half-submerged screw ...

... Londoner. But the prisoner of war who is in those hands wmcn are to sign agree- ments with us (if we let him feed our men on garbage that even pigs refuse. A nd when he is sick. No need to repeat how here the sick Hun is treated, but a little renetition ...

... anything which Burlington House might deem worthy cf honour and I remember walking round each room, carefully avoiding such garbage as might be hung on the line and looking in the neighbourhood of the cornice for such stray masterpieces as the hanging committee ...

... (down Minehead way) who is horrified by her young Airedale's development of a taste for scavenging for the picking up and devouring of garbage. It is not logical to expect the well-bred Dog to be more immune than the cur from such apparent perversities; ...

... steamers, men with no ship at all, the pariah dogs of a hundred ports. I was making my way along the Pedro de Mendoza, a garbage-littered thoroughfare that skirts the Darsena Sud, when he stopped me. Give us a light. I looked him over. His hands were ...