 Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly the raven. One that belonged to me was the most mischievous and amusing creature I ever met with. He would get into the flower-garden, go to the beds where the gardener had sowed a great variety...  A picture book for laddies and lassies - Page 29by Picture book - 1879 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...saying to herself, " No, no, gentlemen ; I'm not to be roused off my eggs merely for your amusement." Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...with sticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and laying them in heaps of ten or twelve on the... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1840 - 378 pages
...saying to herself, " No, no, gentlemen ; I'm not to be roused off my eggs merely for your amusement." Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...with sticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and laying them in heaps of ten or twelve on the... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1840 - 1032 pages
...saying to herself, " No, no, gentlemen; I'm not to be roused off my eggs merely for your amusement." Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...variety of seeds, with sticks put in the ground with labeli, and then he would amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and laying them in heaps of ten... | |
 | English essays - 1841 - 962 pages
...to herself, 'No! no! gentlemen — I 'm not to be roused off my eggs merely for your amusement.' " Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...amusing creature I ever met with. He would get into the flower garden, go to the beds where the gardener had sowed a great variety of seeds, with sticks put... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - 364 pages
...saying to herself, "No, no, gentlemen; I'm not to be roused off my eggs merely for your amusement." Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...gardener had sowed a great variety of seeds, with fticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would amuse himself with pulling up every stick,... | |
 | Hackney lit. and sci. inst - 264 pages
...himself, without finally getting bewildered as to which mav be the most true. HUMOUR or BIRDS. — Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...me was the most mischievous and amusing creature I have ever met with. He 'would get into the flower-garden, go to the beds .where the gardener had sowed... | |
 | John Timbs - Animal behavior - 1869 - 374 pages
...deal of humour in him. One, a most amusing and mischievous creature, would get into a well-stocked flower-garden, go to the beds where the gardener had...with sticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and laying them in heaps of ten or twelve on the... | |
 | John Hogg (publisher.) - Animals - 1878 - 536 pages
...of the Haven. — A raven that belonged to me, says a correspondent of the " New Monthly Magazine," was the most mischievous and amusing creature I ever...with sticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would amuse himself with pulhng up every stick and laying them in heaps of ten or twelve on the... | |
 | 1889 - 826 pages
...gentlemen ; I am not to be roused off my eggs for your amusement." Some birds have a great deal of humor in them, particularly the raven. One that belonged...amusing creature I ever met with. He would get into the flower garden, go to the beds where thegardener had sowed a great variety of seeds, with sticks put... | |
 | 1837 - 610 pages
...saying to herself, " No, no, gentlemen ; I'm not to be roused off my eggs merely for your amusement." Some birds have a great deal of humour in them, particularly...with sticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and laying them in heaps of ten or twelve on the... | |
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