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This last sentence is in exactly the same vein of humour as the comment, in the review of Waterton's Travels, on the snake that bit itself. "Mr. Waterton, though much given to sentiment, made a Labairi snake bite itself, but no bad consequences ensued nor would any bad consequences ensue, if a court-martial was to order a sinful soldier to give himself a thousand lashes.
Whether the Sandpiper laid hold of the gravel at the bottom with its feet, or how it managed, I cannot tell, nor have I ever been able to account for it. Mr. I will therefore state what I think I have witnessed, and trust to Mr. Waterton's forbearance if I am in error; yet I cannot help suspecting that Mr.
Waterton's evidence to his character, will travel faster than that.
I have seen him in a moment when this spirit came upon him like a great ship of war cut his cable, and spread his enormous canvass, and launch into a wide sea of reasoning eloquence." For pure fun, one could not quote a better sample than the review of Waterton's Travels in South America.
And even as late as the nineteenth century, Waterton's aged housekeeper "knew full well what sorrow it had brought into other houses when she was a young woman," Witches, like modern ladies of fashion, set great value on its wings. The latter stick them on their hats, the witches in Macbeth threw them into their boiling cauldron. Horace's Canidia could not complete her recipe without
I thought it now high time to take decisive measures, and with another shot altered the intentions of the monster, who endeavoured to back towards the water. Perhaps if he had been further away from it, I might have been tempted to try Waterton's experiment. It was not before he had received six balls in the head, that he consented to be killed.
Waterton's evidence to his character, will travel faster than that.
Two male hares have been seen to fight together until one was killed; male moles often fight, and sometimes with fatal results; male squirrels engage in frequent contests, "and often wound each other severely"; as do male beavers, so that "hardly a skin is without scars." See Waterton's account of two hares fighting, 'Zoologist, vol. i. 1843, p. 211.
A book he browsed over with a recurrent pleasure was Waterton's Wanderings in South America. He would even amuse himself by inventing descriptions of other birds in the Watertonian manner, new birds that he invented, birds with peculiarities that made him chuckle when they occurred to him. He tried to make Rusper, the ironmonger, share this joy with him.
Waterton's 'Wanderings, p. 118. See also Mr. The coloured plumage and certain other ornaments of the adult males are either retained for life, or are periodically renewed during the summer and breeding-season. At this same season the beak and naked skin about the head frequently change colour, as with some herons, ibises, gulls, one of the bell-birds just noticed, etc.
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