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OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: PLEASURE

... manners. Surely it is an error to represent the chief character of the piece as a moral coward with no more backbone than a jelly-fish, a hero whose only qualification for the title is that he conscientiously follows the Johnsonian precept set forth on the ...

UNDER FALSE COLOURS: A YACHTING STORY

... Lady Bosbury rose hurriedly, her face flushing. Ken, you're an idiot 1 You always were. No more back bone or fibre than a jelly-fish. But I have, and my mind s made up. You'll pro| oso to the Ameiicail girl before she leaves Cowes, do you luar? They sail ...

TOBOGGANING AT DAVOS PLATZ

... To the Mountains of the Moon. By J. E. S. Moore, P.R.G.S. (Hurst and Blackett). A few years ago a missionary found somo jelly-fish in the fresh water of Lake Tangan yika, and placing them in a bottle he sent them home to Oxford, and from this apparently ...

CIRCULAR NOTES

... drowned. He chuckled feverishly, adding hanged and drowned too what a pretty double to bring off at this quiet season When a jelly-fish tickled him up, however, he was glad to change his optimist tone. The remark lias been made, in respect to summer vaca tions ...

CRAB--POTTING AT ROBIN HOOD'S BAY

... keep it from fouling the bottom, where other wise it would have become entangled with weeds and slimy with the movements of jelly-fish. In spite of the helpful corks on the pot-strings, the hoisting of thirty heavy craes from a depth of six fathoms within ...

A FEW HINTS TO WILDFOWLING BEGINNERS

... pore man's bread out of his mouth! Why the doan't yeow keep a' tome wi' that there pop-gun? Yeow ain't gawt the sense of a jelly-fish and so on, with adjectives racy of the mud. If you wish to exorcise the demon you have raised, you must swear that you shot ...

HERRINGS

... armour. The catch is not limited to herrings; gurnets, whiting; weavers, and mullet, all are taken toll of. Slimy strings of jellyfish and crabs get caught in the meshes. Dogfish with a fiendish partiality for the best herrings, which they select with unerring ...

A NIGHT TRIP UN A FISHING COBLE

... in my desire to help, my repugnance of such a task, 1 next assist to scrape together armfuls of glowing sea-wrack and jelly-fish that have to be thrown overboard again. The shutts (bottom-boards) are slippery with slime and wet, and I slide and bump ...

THE SILVER HARVEST

... weavers with a nasty line of poisonous fins, and perhaps a big fat cod twisted in the folds of netting. Long soapy strings of jelly-fish flop all over the deck, and you give them as wide a berth as you do the weavers, while occa sionally there is a yell from ...

AS COMPARED TO WAR

... you're sick. T'ank you, thir, T lisped, as I took two half- crowns. nice pwetty Silly, fat, half-witted, alcoholic jellyfish, continued Pottie, so we had to run the whole way to the club house. Next day I played Jumbo, who had no caddie. He was ...

THE STAGE OF THE DAY

... leg at Arras (what a joke it seemed to everybody but Gustave), and Marcel, who went down the line after being stung by a jellyfish at Dunkirk. I would rather go ou talking about these epic characters than about M. Andre Brule's version of Arsene Lupin ...

CONFESSIONS OF AN AGITATED SPORTSMAN: PART IV.--ON THE TRAIL OF THE COWARDLY COUGAR

... trees and queer rock formations assume the likeness of prehis toric monsters, and one has no more sense of direction than a jellyfish. There is a constant temptation to ride off into space, and no little danger of doing so, for the earth's surface breaks ...