Facts Not FablesJ.P. Peaslee, 1835 - 230 pages |
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ABDOULRAHMAN Adrian VI Alps animal ANT-LION appear APPLICATION Arab asses attention bear BEDOUIN bird bison boy or girl branches called camel carried chamois chase child Christmas-day clothes creature CRIMEA cruel cubs danger delight Demarara desert disgraceful disposition dogs enemy eyes Fact father favour feeling feet fetch fig-tree giraffe give Glastonbury thorn goat-sucker grasshopper ground hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE head hunter hyena injure ISLAND WARRIORS killed kind kindly king Korro-Korro labour little boy looked macaw manner moaning monkies mora mother muscle neighbouring never New-Zealanders noise OBERLIN orchis pain parents perhaps perish person piece pinna POMAREE poor possessed road rock says Dr says Waterton scent SECRETARY FALCON seems Selfishness serpent sloth soon stones strange STRANGE TALES suffer sure tail thee thing thou hast tree unkind vultures wasps wilds wood wounded wrong young Zealand
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Page 56 - ... difficulty. I had not a farthing on earth, nor a friend to give me one : pen, ink, and paper, therefore, (in despite of the flippant remark of Lord Orford,) were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach, as a crown and sceptre. There was indeed a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl: for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply...
Page 103 - As she was fetching away the last piece, they levelled their muskets at the cubs, and shot them both dead ; and in her retreat they wounded the dam, but not mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate concern expressed by this poor beast, in the dying moments of her expiring young.
Page 120 - In such a case there is no distinction. If the master has none the servant will not give it to him ; for very few are the instances where a man will voluntarily lose his life to save that of another, particularly in a caravan in the desert, where people are strangers to each other.
Page 127 - It must be observed, that the sloth does not hang head-downwards like the vampire. When asleep, he supports himself from a branch parallel to the earth. He first seizes the branch with one arm, and then with the other; and after that, brings up both his legs, one by one, to the same branch; so that all four are in a line: he seems perfectly at rest in this position.
Page 55 - I was indebted to chance alone for stumbling upon his hiding-place. I sat up for the greatest part of several nights successively, and, before he suspected that his treatise was discovered, had completely mastered it. I could now enter upon my own; and that carried me pretty far into the science.
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Page 43 - ... the goat-sucker comes out of the forest, where it has sat all day long in slumbering ease, unmindful of the gay and busy scenes around it. Its eyes are too delicately formed to bear the light, and thus it is forced to shun the flaming face of day and wait in patience till night invites him to partake of the pleasures her dusky presence brings. The harmless, unoffending goat-sucker, from the time of Aristotle down to the present day, has been in disgrace with man. Father has handed down to son,...
Page 126 - ... soles to his feet, and his claws are very sharp and long, and curved; so that, were his body supported by his feet it would be by their extremities, just as your body would be, were you to throw yourself on all fours, and try to support it on the ends of your toes and fingers — a trying position.
Page 128 - Come, poor fellow," said I to him, "if thou hast got into a hobble to-day, thou shalt not suffer for it: I'll take no advantage of thee in misfortune; the forest is large enough both for thee and me to rove in: go thy ways up above, and enjoy thyself in these endless wilds; it is more than probable thou wilt never have another interview with man. So fare thee well.
Page 104 - ... them, began to lick their wounds. She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But...