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I tried to talk of her, but M. Flamaran insisted on talking of me, of Bourges, of his election as professor, and of the radically distinct characteristics by which you can tell the bite of a gudgeon from that of a stickleback. The latter part of this lecture was, however, purely theoretical, for he got up two hours before sunset without having hooked a fish. "A good day, all the same," he said.
It was probably a stickleback that took his leg. A more powerful enemy would have taken the whole of him. So intent was he on his quarry that he scarcely realized the severance until he found himself swimming in an aimless lopsided circle. Then he sought the friendly shelter of the weeds, and sat still to ruminate.
Wapiti, battles of; traces of horns in the female; attacking a man; crest of the male; sexual difference in the colour of the. Warbler, hedge-; young of the. Warblers, superb, nidification of. Wariness, acquired by animals. Warington, R., on the habits of the stickleback; on the brilliant colours of the male stickleback during the breeding season. Wart-hog, tusks and pads of the.
Want of sympathy became absolute annoyance as I grew older, and wandered farther, and adopted a perfect menagerie of odd beasts in whom my friends could see no good qualities: such as the snake I kept warm in my trousers-pocket; the stickleback that I am convinced I tamed in its own waters; the toad for whom I built a red house of broken drainpipes at the back of the strawberry bed, where I used to go and tickle his head on the sly; and the long-whiskered rat in the barn, who knew me well, and whose death nearly broke my heart, though I had seen generations of unoffending ducklings pass to the kitchen without a tear.
"Here," continued Mr Pitskiver, "give me the cord," and so saying he untwisted it in a moment down fell the side of the case, and to the astonished eyes of the assembled critics, and also of the party in the back drawing-room, revealed, not the masterpiece of the immortal Stickleback, but a female figure enveloped in a grey silk cloak, and covering its face with a white muslin handkerchief.
The stickleback will do to manure our garden; and I am sure you will like the cup, if you will only let me finish it." "Manure your garden, indeed!" cried Stephen, gruffly. "I'll cut up your garden to shreds first. What business has your garden in our carr? You and your great landlord will find what it is to set your outlandish plants growing where our geese ought to be grazing.
"I have devoted much time to the study of the fine arts I have seen many statues I have frequently been in sculptors' studios; I prefer Stickleback to Canova." "I honour his moral elevation," observed Miss Hendy, "in stamping on eternal marble the femininity of the subject of his chisel." "I must really have the first view," whispered Mr Pitskiver. "Can't you remind him, Bristles?
"I never meant to call his writings rubbish," said the subdued sculptor. "I know he's the greatest writer in England." "And you, my dear Stickleback, the greatest sculptor the world has ever seen!" exclaimed the easily propitiated critic. "Why will you doubt my respect, my admiration of your surpassing talent? When our other friends leave me, Stickleback, I hope you will stay for half an hour.
Of course these careful parents do not have huge families, like the Cod. No; the fish that care for their young have small families, but the babies have a much better chance of living than the baby Cod. It is one of Nature's wise laws. Our common Stickleback "Tiddler," or "Red-throat," as boys call him builds a nest in ponds.
What to you the fluttering moth, decked in gold and crimson, brilliant, iridescent, splendid? The beauty of it bids you bend to deity, otherwise it has no worth; it is a stimulus to religion, and that is all. So with the glowing incandescence of the stickleback and its polished scales of silver. What make you of the hoarse voice of the gorilla?
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