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The sulphur tyrant-bird picks up the young snake by the tail, and, flying to a branch or stone, uses it like a flail till its life is battered out. The bird is highly commended in consequence, reminding one of very ancient words: "Happy shall he be that taketh thy little ones and dasheth them against the stones."
Numerous varieties of each of these, however, are named and exist. We condense from De Bow's "Industrial Resources of the South and West" a brief account of tobacco-culture in this country. "The tobacco is best sown from the 10th to the 20th of March, and a rich loam is the most favorable soil. The plants are dressed with a mixture of ashes, plaster, soot, salt, sulphur, soil, and manure."
Stacy turned a pair of resentful eyes on his companion. "No egg water for me. I'll starve first," he answered, with more spirit than usual. While Walter went to the spring to help himself to the sulphur water, Stacy stood off to view his artistic work on the bark of the tree. "Guess guess they'll know I've been here, anyway," he mumbled. "That's real good stuff," announced Walter, as he returned.
Next he brought out his bunch of sulphur matches. But the tremendous cold had already driven the life out of his fingers. In his effort to separate one match from the others, the whole bunch fell in the snow. He tried to pick it out of the snow, but failed. The dead fingers could neither touch nor clutch. He was very careful.
We, at its base, were on comparatively low ground here, with another low line of cliffs shading us from the light-beams of the city. Mercer and Anina stopped and pointed upward at the cliff. A huge seam of the soft, chalky limestone ran laterally for five hundred feet or more across its face. I saw embedded in this seam great irregular masses of sulphur. "There you are," said Mercer triumphantly.
With considerable difficulty he worked the glass stopper out of the alcohol bottle, and with the fluid saturated the rags. Then, on a clear bit of the floor, he spilled out a small quantity of the phosphorus and sulphur. "This beats getting fire by friction all hollow," he cheerfully remarked. "I've tried that, too, and I guess it's only in books a white man ever succeeds at it.
Proteids are compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and a small per cent of sulphur. All of the proteids are highly complex compounds and form a most important class of nutrients. *Purposes of Proteids.*—The chief purpose of proteids in the body is to rebuild the tissues.
"I've too moody a face for them," and he began to dress himself with the elaborate care which had won for him the title of "Beau" Montjoy. By the next summer, Betty and Virginia had shot up as if in a night, but neither Champe nor Dan came home. After weeks of excited preparation, the Major and Mrs. Lightfoot started, with Congo and Mitty, for the White Sulphur, where the boys were awaiting them.
His bill is sulphur colour; all the rest of the body black, with here and there shades of brown. He has five or six long narrow black feathers on the back of his head, which he erects at pleasure. There is one more species of cassique in Demerara, which always prefers the forest to the cultivated parts. His economy is the same as that of the other cassiques.
Hutchins, who was waiting in Tish's car, saw him, too, and went quite white with fury. Shortly after that, Hannah came in one night and said that a man was watching Tish's windows. We thought it was imagination, and Tish gave her a dose of sulphur and molasses her liver being sluggish. "Probably an Indian, I dare say," was Tish's caustic comment.
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