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Robinson Crusoe Ltd.: How to Catch Turtle; Spongers and Pink Pearls

... in deep water awaiting the arrival of their principal food the curious little thimble fish, like ill-formed, dark green jelly-fish, the size and shape of a thimble. We saw an occasional hawksbill, from which tortoise-shell is procured, feeding upon the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1481 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

The REAL TRAGEDY

... could realise that Lancelot, my beautiful and charming husband, was unstable as water, and had no more real character than a jellyfish. Oh, do not mistake me or look horrified at my wifely disloyalty I am very fond of him still, and he of me we rub on all ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3988 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

The Traveller in London: No August Travelling

... it be warm, or the Marylebone or a dozen other baths if the weather be incle ment. In the Serpentine there are no nasty jelly-fish and other things, and the water of Marylebone is crystal clear. After my bathe I walk through Hyde or Regent's Park, only ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 723 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

LEST WE FORGET: SOME SUMMERY REMINDERS FROM THE TRENCHES

... Oh, shan't we indeed We are not out here for the Rev. Mr. Meyer or for cocoa cranks or Stiggins or mug-wumps or gutless jellyfish, with white ties, big soft stomachs, and oily hands. Not much. We're here to win the right to have a beano. AA ^A I'm doing ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1517 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

Motoring & Aviation

... shipped four gallons of water into the hold of the engine. Sea -water has a strange effect on plugs, and a kind of small jelly-fish formed on each. With felt washers and the attachment of chimneys we got over this. Very little water got past the tappets ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1919
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1328 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

The Ideal Bathing-Place

... houses when I'm in the water, and There's a place to put the towel where It can't get full of sand. Such pests as crabs and jellyfish, With which some coasts abound, In my secluded bathing place Are never to be found. The spot is such a sheltered one That ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 219 | Page: 20 | Tags: Poem 

NOTHING IN IT

... lose his wig No puritanic councillor With telescope surveyed the shore No millionaire, despite my wish, Was bitten by a jelly-fish. A disappointed chap am I, A screen-star I did not descry Gallantly rescued from the deep By a white man the local sweep ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 197 | Page: 26 | Tags: Poem 

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 

Back to Protoplasm

... In short, back to Protoplasm. Your learned Dryasdusts will tell you that in the Beginning of Time humans were even as the jelly-fish, a mass of life that consisted of a pre hensile stomach and nothing more. Such thinking as it did, or such move ment as ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 861 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations