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Clerks hovered about him, and an anaemic indoor policeman, standing before him, grasped with one hand a brass rail and with the other was continually handing up prisoners to be judged. All in the inclosed space stood and moved a mass of careless men, the lawyers, hangers-on, and all who fatten upon crime careless, laughing, nudging, talking openly to the women of the street.

He was a shrewd fellow, and summed up the economical situation, I thought, better than some of his betters, when he said of the whole region that "it will fatten four, feed five, and starve six." It may well fatten six, though, I should say, if the natural wealth of this vast granite range can be properly turned to account.

He listened intently as a speech-maker said to the Phoenician: "And is this Galilean wiser and braver than Sparticus? Did not this noble lover of human liberty slay Roman legions as a fierce wind strikes down forest leaves? And yet was he not at last hacked to bits and his loyal followers hung on crosses to fatten birds of prey?"

They do not, it is true, breed and feed the kangaroos as our people rear and fatten cattle, but, at least, the wild animals are bred and fed upon their land, and consequently belong to them. The native population of Australia is very peculiar in many respects, not exactly resembling any other known race of human beings in the world.

A mixture of oatmeal and treacle made into crumbs is also good food for chickens; and they are so fond of it, that they will grow and fatten much faster than in the common way. Poultry in general should be fed in coops, and kept very clean.

'Where is the old face? Averil said. 'You look as you did in the fever. Your smile brings back something of yourself. But, oh, those hollow eyes! 'Count Ugolino is Dr. May's name for me: but, indeed, Ave, I have tried to fatten for your inspection. 'It is not thinness, she said, 'but I had carried about with me the bright daring open face of my own boy. I shall learn to like this better now.

People fatten them for the Ayd-Kebir, each family endeavouring to procure one as a religious obligation. 14th. Went early this morning to Ben Weleed to find my aged friend, Sheikh Ali. He has the largest species of dates, and invited me to go to his garden to see the palms. Sheikh Ali is a man of ancient days, and ancient honour and resources, and fallen into a very low estate.

The changing conditions of home life in the city, with the increasing cost of living, coupled with the ease of divorce, encourage resort to the courts. The unscrupulousness of some lawyers, who fatten their purses at the expense of marital happiness, and the meddlesomeness of relatives are also contributing causes.

As is a general rule in meat production, young animals give much better returns for food consumed than do mature individuals. With the young chicken the weight is added as flesh, while the hen has a tendency, which increases with age, to turn the same food into useless fat. For this reason the general practice is to fatten only the best of the young chickens.

So numerous and troublesome, indeed, are the vampires, that there are pastures in Trinidad in which, at least till the adjoining woods were cleared, the cattle would not fatten, or even thrive; being found, morning after morning, weak and sick from the bleedings which they had endured at night.