... PICKINGS FROM FUN. Advice to Riders Bicycles.—Study the modus-upper-hand-i. A Cockney One. —Which of his relatives is a habitual criminal the last to desert?— His haunts. Sighted at the Seaside. —What is the use of blowing brass-band? Why even the fellow ...

... literally thrives on garbage. When the weather is very frosty, or the herrings retire into deeper water, the gull will search for food inland, and may be seen mingling with their sable brethren, the rooks, following the plough, and picking up worms and grubs ...

... flight as if looking for something to pick up, and the other gulls showed no symptom of fear their approach. That they follow fishing-boats to pick up debris seems certain, and doubtless they do not disdaiu garbage ou the strand, but at Foula there is ...

... fine weather well coarse, pick worms. The herring-gull eats a good deal oats in spring, while it is being sown, and every winter, when there is frost for few days, few of tlie-*e loiter about our house* in search of garbage, or eat our turnips, digging ...

... brought about by their manifestations. So she set about her preparations. She had not much to do. The trunks that she had picked and dispatched to the North End railway station three months before at the hour when her journey was arrested by the accident ...