... 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 ...

... reperehased Nader some pinch of official exigeacy. Every dockyard has its own whispered histories, its queer barters, its petty pickings and stealinge, its purchases of well-seasoned timber that is sold at last for 6wewood, its copper rivets that turn out to ...

... 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 ...

... and flew hack to where be had left another rook sitting in a , very weak-looking condition, and fed her with what 'be had picked up. This lie did Laic* in my sight before taking anything to himself. It was a very , interesting sight, and I *as very much ...

... 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 ...

... accompanied them, and a salute of 21 guns was fired. Honolulu is a fine place for amusement Fruit grows in abundance, and yon might pick and eat as much as you like on the plantation. They are all in a confusion now (Friday. July 30) on deck, getting in sheep ...

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

... a bristlier on board who witnessed his fate. Brescia. boats drifted out of Pulteneytown harbour on Friday night. Two were picked up by the 'Prince Consort' steamer and taken safely to the harbour. A large beat with the initials ' WIC,' hut number obliterated ...