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Page 190 - Their reindeer form their riches. These their tents, Their robes, their beds, and all their homely wealth Supply, their wholesome fare and cheerful cups. Obsequious at their call, the docile tribe Yield to the sled their necks, and whirl them swift O'er hill and dale, heap'd into one expanse Of marbled snow, as far as eye can sweep With a blue crust of ice unbounded glazed.
Page 10 - PICTURES OF SCHOOL LIFE AND BOYHOOD. THE YOUNG MAN IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE. By the Rev Dr. Landels. THE TRUE GLORY OF WOMAN. By the Rev. Dr. Landels.
Page 152 - Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou shalt be slain.
Page 132 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise, as if in play. I was told...
Page 3 - A Series of Stirring Adventures. With Twenty Full-page Illustrations. Off to Sea. A Story for Boys. By WHG KINGSTON. With Eight Illustrations printed in Colours. On a Coral Reef. By ARTHUR LOCKER. Handsomely Illustrated. The Old Nursery Rhymes; or. The Merrle Heart. With Eight Full-page Coloured Plates from Designs by WALTER CRANE, and 100 Illustrations.
Page 72 - ... examining every bushy place, and at last met with some object among the rushes which caused them to set up a most vehement and determined barking. We explored the spot with caution, as we suspected, from the peculiar tone of their bark, that it was, what it proved to be, lions. Having encouraged the dogs to drive them out, a task which they performed with great willingness, we had a full view of an enormous black-maned lion and lioness.
Page 10 - Adriana," &c, &c. 3. Sermons for Boys. By the Rev. ALFRED BARRY, DD, Principal of King's College, London, late Head Master of Cheltenham Grammar School.
Page 96 - ... thus to destroy their friends. He represented, however, that the misfortune was unavoidable, since without doing so they could by no means subsist. The speech ended, we all ate heartily of the bear's flesh ; and even the head itself, after remaining three days on the scaffold, was put into the kettle.
Page 240 - Sturges's harvest men were at supper, and saw her from the opposite side of the way. There she encountered the tanpits full of water; and while she was struggling out of one pit, and plunging into another, and almost drowned, one of the men drew her out by the ears, and secured her. She was then well washed in a bucket, to get the lime out of her coat, and brought home in a sack at ten o'clock. This frolic cost us four shillings, but you may believe we did not grudge a farthing of it.
Page 134 - Persons who attempt to take beaver in winter should be thoroughly acquainted with their manner of life, otherwise they will have endless trouble to effect their purpose, because they have always a number of holes in the banks, which serve them as places of retreat when any injury is offered to their houses, and in general it is in those holes that they are taken. When the beavers which are situated in a small river or creek are to be taken, the Indian* sometime?