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A U D ÜBO N 'S On Sale Friday JANUARY 19, 1945 FROST STILLS THE STREAM ISLAND (Illustrated) ONE SHILLING

... Spoonbill. I was alone on Sandy Key. The tide was running out and the grey- COUNTRY LIFE white beach widened as I walked. Jellyfish, stranded among the masses of wet seaweed, were hining and transparent like lumps of cool, liquid glass. Rising and falling ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1945
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16321 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

There are snags, of course. ometime we

... s trikes the jig, it i hauled in and cleared q uickly before chao sets in. Another odd snag is that the inker may hit a jelly-fish and the whole jig be fouled with its tentacles. Then herring will not take the hooks, so they all have to be carefully cleaned ...

Published: Thursday 28 January 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2273 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Shell Nature Studies 13 SfJ ELLS PAINTED BY TRISTRAM HILLIER Jil;hut I')H Shells such a you fihd on your seaside

... than the tiny COWRIES (3) of Britain. Jil;hut I')H Other kinds are local. Only on the wild north-eastern eats miniature jellyfish and drifts ashore on Cornish holiday beaches round a bout Sennen and Mounts Bay. you gather shells, that they are only homes ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 472 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

CRUSADER FOR THE MODERN GARDEN

... following two months would be devoted to the most primitive of creatures, ranging from viruses and single-celled bacteria t o jelly-fish, while the mammals would not appear until the second week in Man as we know him December. Man as we know him would have ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2104 | Page: 86 | Tags: none

PIGS' FRY

... to a very heavy fine, not to speak of a possible term of imprisonment.' When they talked o' jile, owd Zeke shook like a jellyfish. His owd teeth fair chattered. 'Moreover, we understand you collected a considerable sum of money last night from people ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2004 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

Drawings on a Tilting Deck The quality of the text is matched

... astonishing miniatu re fauna and flora is plankton: they in cl ucle cl iatoms, a host of la rval stages of fish, crustaceans and jellyfish, and sq uids large and small, some very curious fish and other animals as peculiar as they are unfamiliar. They are the subject ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2291 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

HUNTING FOR SHEL-LS

... Rhossilly, and inside the projecting arm of Worms H ead ; a beach for t he thunder of waves and the iricle cence of stranded jelly-fish, and the glowing petals of Geranium sanguineum on the dune sand above t he high-tide mark. Abroad, I shall never forget ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3178 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF

... crawling on the fallen jasmine flowers what look like white caterpillars, with flesh shiny and trans- parent like a colourless jelly-fish. The veins and arteries resemble a silver thread and the dark intestine can be plainly seen. I transferred some into a jam ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 19263 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

CO U N T RY L I FE-S EP T EMBER 5 , 19 5 7 while acting as a

... crawling on the fallen jasmine flowers what look like white caterpillars, with flesh shiny and trans- parent like a colourless jelly-fish. The veins and arteries resemble a silver thread and the dark intestine can be plainly seen. I transferred some into a jam ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2968 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... crawling on the fallen jasmine flowers what look like white caterpillars, with flesh shiny and transparent like a colourless jelly-fish. The veins and arteries resemble a silver thread and the dark intestine can be plainly seen. I transferred some into a jam ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

A LEVITATING POET

... integrity. H e assures us that he can, almost at will, defy the force of gravity and not merely float about in the air as a jelly-fish does in water, but purpo efully direct himself to a destination. Moreover, he can make himself invisible. clown those sinister ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2459 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

THE TECHNIQUE OF FISH-WATCHING

... dealing with the only two dangerous creature likely to be encountered : the e are the jellyfish and the sea urchin. I either is erious, but they are annoying. The jellyfish of the blue-violet rnt!duse type ting like a nettle and the sudden pain sometimes ...

Published: Thursday 17 April 1958
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2609 | Page: 37 | Tags: none