... PICKINGS THIS • MR MACGREGOR'S GATHERING.. ' There's mist on the mountain and night on the brae.' There's missed an amount, and the shareholders bray, And the Bank has a name that implies it don't pay. The thousands, hard cash, from its funds that we ...

... PICKINGS THIS WS MICR. FRENCH COCKS AND FRENCH EAGLES. Prince Louis Napoleon has added to his glories ; he has knocked the French Cock otf perch, and reinstated the French Eagle. The Cock that was heard at Antwerp, Isly,and, rejoicing the religious ...

... into the ashpits at the back the retail shops, it was said that shoals of children descended upon these placcs, and picked up the garbage, which was afterwards •aten. ...

... _this vnat and _, rec * dng city _, tbo filth and _putrid _garbage _still _accumulateand ten steps from the _leading avenues one may _suffocate wilh the stench , _and find _diflicolty in picking _the way through _the dirt and mire . - In-the _tenement houses ...

... temporal affairs. While working with gang of other labourers in Bay Street, where some road operations were being carried on, garbage cart backed on to where ex- Lieutenant Governor Bansier was at work, and dumped a load of rubbish the street. Among the ...

... living had been of very penurious nature. He earned small sums money by menial occupations, and brought home and ate any garbage could pick up. On Saturday afternoon, finding he had not come downstairs, a relative broke -» open hi* attic door, which was found ...

... beaten with the most unnatural and brutal severity. The poor little fellow had been often seen by the neighbours picking up and eating garbage to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pigs' trough, and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs had not ...

... by the unfortunate _necessity of adhering only to what is true _, and rejecting at once the half-romantichalf scandalous garbage with which , in the way of private anecdotes of the Prince , some of the American _journals are jusfc now _entertaining their ...

... saying : — His whola bearing was a mixture of impudence , meanness , and duplicity , such as I have seen nowhere save in a pick-pocket who has been interrupted in an attempt on his nei ghbour ' s watch or purse . In unscrupulousness ha had no superior ...

... sufficiently taught to feel their sorrows without knowing to what extent they are common to humanity, are greedy for such garbage, and the common drill in discontent is all-too easy. The Radical lecturer—part bagman, part preacher, part political agent—has ...

... Dutch drew whine and cant and sing Psalmn , much after the manner of Olive ' s own Napoleon , Our authoress picks up soroe _ camp garbage , and uses that to show that . Rhodes , Jameson , and nil ( hair men acted as moral monsters . I know something ...

... merits or demerits as a writer. That he should be angry at the mere idea that some academical ehigininier should pick over his literary garbage intending to gather from it the material for an assorted dish of evil-smelling fragments is understandable; but ...