 | Mariana Starke - 1802 - 476 pages
...that he was compelled to take wing, and, with fome difficulty, got away. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered of his wounds, and attended by three ether florks, who no fooner alighted than they fell upon the tame ftork and killed him. From Hamburg... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...difficulty gob away. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, reco. vered of his wounds, and attended by three other Storks, who no sooner alighted than they all together fell upon the tame Stork and killed him.* Storks are Birds of passage, and observe great... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...got away. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry'-yard, recovered of its wounds, and attended by three other storks, who no sooner alighted than they altogether fell upen the tame stork and killed him. SOCIABILITY OF THE LAPWING. THE following anecdote... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...so'unmercifully, that he was compelled to take wing, and escaped with difficulty. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered...three, other storks ; who no sooner alighted, than they all together fell upon the tame stork, and killed him."] inmate among them ; as well the despotic princes... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...fanner into his poultry-yard, to be the companion of a tame one he had lory? kept there; but the tanfe stork, disliking the idea of a rival, fell upon the...than they fell upon the tame stork and killed him !' The appendix consists principally of directions to travellers, which cannot fail of being of considerable... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...with some difficulty escaped. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry yard, recovered of his wounds, and attended by three other storks, who no sooner alighted, than they altogether fell upon the same stork and killed him. NEWSMAN EXTRAORDINARY. One of the carriers of a... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 164 pages
...that he was compelled to take wing, and with some difficulty escaped. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered...of his wounds, and attended by three other storks, which no sooner alighted, than they altogether fell upon the tame stork, and killed him. The poet says,... | |
 | Mariana Starke - Europe - 1826 - 560 pages
...afterward, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered of his wound?, and attended by ihree other storks, who no sooner alighted than they fell...convey passengers, each of which is large enough to accommodate five or 1 Of al] the excellent wines in this neigh- sophy, and afterward theology, in the... | |
 | Mariana Starke - Europe - 1828 - 674 pages
...that he was compelled to take wing, and with some difficulty got away. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered...other storks, who no sooner alighted than they fell 432 Ch. XII.] 433 upon the tame stork and killed him. A Steam Packet goes from London to Hamburgh,... | |
 | Briar's hall - Children's stories, English - 1828 - 400 pages
...that he was compelled to take wing, and with some difficulty escaped. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered...of his wounds, and attended by three other storks, which no sooner alighted, than they all fell togegether upon the tame stork, and killed him.' '' "... | |
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Hamburgh, into his poultryyard, to be the companion of a tame one that he had long kept there; but the tame Stork, disliking a rival, fell upon the poor stranger, and beat him so unmercifully that he was compelled to take wing, and with some difficulty... 
