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Updated: June 6, 2025
She watched the dog catchers dump the hounds into wooden crates, uniformed teenagers in sidewalk restaurants enjoying the process, coconut tonic vendors putting straws in the cut cocunut shells and fruit on a stick salesmen pushing their glass ice and fruit carts. She spent most of her time downtown.
Now we pass a regular regiment of birds I do not know cranes, I think some four feet high, the colour of oyster catchers, long red bills and legs, and black and white plumage. The Irrawaddy valley is here a little like the valley of the Forth.
In our own woods and our own fields in America we have a Wandering Monarch the "Big Red Butterfly" as we children called it the "Monarch" as it is named by the butterfly catchers. It is called the "Wanderer" chiefly because it is the only one of our Butterflies that migrates like the birds.
We ran down the Irish coast, past Dunluce Castle and the Causeway; the Giant's organ was very plainly visible, and the winds were strong enough to have sounded a storm-song upon it. Farther on we had a distant view of Carrick-a-Rede, a precipitous rock, separated by a yawning chasm from the shore, frequented by the catchers of sea-birds.
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp- catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt.
Sideways, indeed, lay an arm of the river Berettyo, well-known to crayfish catchers and summer-bathers as a broad and deep stream, and well would it be for him now to have that water between him and the hounds, for the foxhound will not swim if he can help it, but it looked very much as if they would surround him, and tear his skin off his back before he could reach it.
King-birds are useful in protecting poultry and song birds from hawks, and are also great fly catchers, taking many beetles on the wing. Doves eat great quantities of seeds of harmful weeds. They also eat some grain, but almost altogether after the crop has been gathered.
These snakes are treated not only with forbearance but kindness by the planters, and in return render important service on the sugar plantations, being most persevering and successful RAT CATCHERS; rats are abundant, and exceedingly destructive to the sugar cane, on which they subsist during a considerable portion of the year.
Here are, amongst others, the beautiful golden-ringed and dotterel plovers of Europe, and the American noisy plover. In the case which next claims attention are the turnstones, that turn stones on the sea-shore in search of food; the oyster catchers, that wrench shell fish from their shells; and the South American gold-breasted and other trumpeters.
It was noticeable that Langur Dass, at the edge of the circle, pricked up his ears. "Do you mean the white elephant of which the Manipur people tell so many lies?" he asked. "Do you, skilled catchers that you are, believe that such an elephant is still wild in the jungle?" Ahmad Din scowled. "The Manipur people tell of him, but for once they tell the truth," was the reply.
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