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The skipper's black eyes followed the line indicated. "That bes a grand idee o' mine, yer reverence," he answered, after a moment's hesitation. "Sure I'll tell ye all about it, sir, after ye get yerself dry alongside the stove." "Something to do with wrecks, Denny?" queried the priest. "Aye, yer reverence, it bes a part o' the gear for salvin' wrecks," returned Nolan.
It IS Julia Eliot!" said old Lady Hibbert, holding out both her hands. "And Mr. Salvin. What is going to happen to us, Mr. Salvin? With all my experience of English politics My dear, I was thinking of your father last night one of my oldest friends, Mr. Salvin. Never tell me that girls often are incapable of love! I had all Shakespeare by heart before I was in my teens, Mr. Salvin!"
In an allied bird, the Penelope nigra, Mr. Salvin observed a male, which, whilst it flew downwards "with outstretched wings, gave forth a kind of crashing rushing noise," like the falling of a tree. Mr. Salvin, in 'Proceedings, Zoological Society, 1867, p. 160. Gould, 'Introduction to the Trochilidae, 1861, p. 49. Salvin that the noise was intentionally made. Sclater, in 'Proc. Zool.
You remember how you'd drive into one of them, leap away, then tear into another. Like a wolf for all the world! You was always hard to get into a fight, but you know as well as I do, and I ain't salvin' you when I say it, that you're the most terrible, ferocious fighter, forgettin' everything but blood, that ever paddled a canoe on the Athabaska.
I obtained the skins of ninety-two species only; but small as this collection was, it proved an important addition to the knowledge of the bird-fauna of Nicaragua. The eminent ornithologist, Mr. Osbert Salvin, published in the "Ibis" for July 1872 a list of seventy-three species that I had up to that time sent to England.
Salvin, dropping his voice and speaking in quizzical tones. "There are so many ..." Miss Eliot replied. Three young men stood at the doorway looking about for their hostess. "You don't remember Elizabeth as I do," said Mr. Salvin, "dancing Highland reels at Banchorie. Clara lacks her mother's spirit. Clara is a little pale." "What different people one sees here!" said Miss Eliot.
"If you two got a thousand dollars each in bank an' I ain't disputin' it, for I hear on good authority you got that much for salvin' the Chesapeake what're you hangin' around the Maggie for?" Mr. Gibney approached and placed his great right arm fraternally across Scraggs's skinny shoulder. Mr.
Now what I'm thinkin' is this, you want a fence to help you to get rid of the stuff. Supposin' you find it, how are you to cart this stuff ashore and bank it? You'll be had, sure, but not if I'm at your back. Now, gents, I'm willin' to wipe out all differences and help in the salvin' on shares, and I'll make it easy for you.
Salvin, O., inheritance of mutilated feathers; on the Humming-birds; on the numerical proportion of the sexes in Humming-birds; on Chamaepetes and Penelope; on Selasphorus platycercus; Pipra deliciosa; on Chasmorhynchus. Samoa Islands, beardlessness of the natives of. Sandhoppers, claspers of male. Sand-skipper.
"Happily we are not governed by the evening papers," said Mr. Salvin. "I never read them," said Miss Eliot. "I know nothing about politics," she added. "The piano is in tune," said Clara, passing them, "but we may have to ask some one to move it for us." "Are they going to dance?" asked Mr. Salvin. "Nobody shall disturb you," said Mrs. Durrant peremptorily as she passed. "Julia Eliot.
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