Up and Down the BrooksHoughton, 1889 - 222 páginas |
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... should find such firm advocates beside a Cali- fornia stream . Meantime , from the depths of the brook beside me , my muddy cloth dredger brings up various larval and perfect forms of insect - life . Great CHAPTER I DREDGING NOTES.
... should find such firm advocates beside a Cali- fornia stream . Meantime , from the depths of the brook beside me , my muddy cloth dredger brings up various larval and perfect forms of insect - life . Great CHAPTER I DREDGING NOTES.
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... - cause that will be likely to let small larvæ escape through the meshes . The handle of the dredger is an old round stick about a yard long . I think it was once part of a wooden clothes - horse 74 UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS .
... - cause that will be likely to let small larvæ escape through the meshes . The handle of the dredger is an old round stick about a yard long . I think it was once part of a wooden clothes - horse 74 UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS .
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Mary Ellen Bamford. it was once part of a wooden clothes - horse . One end of the stick being split admits the iron hoop , and the two are firmly bound together by strips of stout cot- ton cloth . Armed with such an implement as this ...
Mary Ellen Bamford. it was once part of a wooden clothes - horse . One end of the stick being split admits the iron hoop , and the two are firmly bound together by strips of stout cot- ton cloth . Armed with such an implement as this ...
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... cloth has also some attractions . I suppose it reminds the beetles , at first sight , of a white moth . Black cloth seems to have almost no interest for the Whirligigs . The bill of fare for these Gyrinidæ , as far as I have observed ...
... cloth has also some attractions . I suppose it reminds the beetles , at first sight , of a white moth . Black cloth seems to have almost no interest for the Whirligigs . The bill of fare for these Gyrinidæ , as far as I have observed ...
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... cloth around that branch to make sure that I should see him again . I furthermore tasted both the cultivated raspberry and the wild blackberry , and I came to the conclusion that there is a difference in the flavor of the sap . The wild ...
... cloth around that branch to make sure that I should see him again . I furthermore tasted both the cultivated raspberry and the wild blackberry , and I came to the conclusion that there is a difference in the flavor of the sap . The wild ...
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antennæ Aphides aphis beetles blackberry body bottle bottom Brodica brook bug-hunter bugs butterfly ça ira Caddis Caddis-worm catch caterpillars cocoon color Conqueror Corixa Corydalus crawling creatures creek Darby and Joan dead devour dragon-fly larvæ dredger dredging Dytiscidæ earth earth-worm eggs eyes feet fish Fittest flies Frog-hopper frogs froth Giants Gordius grass green Gyrinida head hole horns Hydrometrida Hydrophilidæ inch long insects Issedones jelly-glass lady lady-bug Lake larva leaf leaves leeches legs live lizard look mosquito mosquito-bar moth never once one's pair perhaps polliwog pond pond-snail pool poor pupa Ranatra scorpion scorpion-bugs seen shoot side Skaters slugs snails sometimes spider stick swim tail teasel things thought Thysanura tion water-beetles water-boatman Water-lizards water-scorpions water-shrimp Water-tigers weeds Whirligig beetles Whirligigs willows wings wonder worm yellow
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Página 143 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 146 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Página 26 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Página 215 - The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth; meaning thereby, that grapes were made to eat, and lips to open. You do love this maid?
Página 68 - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet: O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.
Página 145 - Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny." Says Simple Simon to the pieman "Indeed I have not any." Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
Página 94 - Ser Nuto, being brought by the mob into the court, was suspended from the gallows by one foot ; and those around having torn him to pieces, in little more than a moment nothing remained of him but the foot by which he had been tied.
Página 95 - Dioscorides, saith that, before they have an hole through them, they containe in them either a flie, a spider, or a worme : if a flie, then warre insueth; if a creeping worme, then scarcitie of victuals ; if a running spider, then followeth great sickenesse or mortalitie.