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Perhaps when we know more of the habits of the finny-tribe, we shall find that some others provide for the safety of their young in a similar way, but at present I believe the Stickleback, which not only makes a nest but takes care of his young brood until they are six days old and can "find for themselves," is the only one known in Europe.
He was a youth by the side of Noah, scarce seventy years old a cheery, humorous, kind-hearted old man, full of sixty years of Vale gossip, and of all sorts of helpful ways for young and old, but above all for children. It was he who bent the first pin with which Tom extracted his first stickleback out of "Pebbly Brook," the little stream which ran through the village.
Spines and prickles are a commoner defence. The little Stickleback of our ponds wears sharp spines, and knows well how to use them. Even the terrible Pike will not swallow such a dangerous mouthful unless driven by hunger. Sea-fish are the most hunted of all living things. From the day they leave the egg, enemies lurk on all sides to gobble them up.
Stickleback has often told me, that Chantrey was not altogether without merit I myself pronounce Macauley far from stupid; and my intellectual friend, young Sidsby, who will read us the first act of his tragedy to-night, allows a very respectable degree of dramatic power to Lord Byron.
Harry continued to look most rueful, but said nothing. "It must have been a jack," said Philip. "What a big one! Why didn't you pull it out when I told you?" "How could I," said Harry, "when it was dragging so?" "I am sorry," said Fred; "it must have been a great stickleback to pull the line in half." "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the cousins, "it wasn't a stickler. They never grow any bigger than these."
Oh, Mæcenas! is there no difference between the chef-d'oeuvre of the great Stickleback, and the town of Dover and a post-chaise. In a week after these events, six or seven gentlemen were gathered round a table in a room very near the skylight in the Minerva chambers.
Satisfied by this, Mildred crouched down, with her arm about her brother's neck, and saw the great net cast, and the pond almost emptied of its fish, some few being kept for food, and the small fry especially of the stickleback being thrown into heaps, to be sold for manure. "Will they come this way when they have done drawing the pond?" asked Mildred, in some fear, as she saw them moving about.
The only sculptor worth a sixpence since the fine arts were invented," replied the self-satisfied Mr Stickleback. "No," said Mr Bristles; "since you force us to tell you what we have done for you, I will mention it.
Stickleback, polygamous; male, courtship of the; male, brilliant colouring of, during the breeding season; nidification of the. Sticks used as implements and weapons by monkeys. Sting in bees. Stokes, Captain, on the habits of the great bower-bird. Stoliczka, Dr., on colours in snakes. Stoliczka, on the pre-anal pores of lizards. Stonechat, young of the.
Stephen raised his arm, about to dash the cup to the ground, when Oliver sprang forward, and said "You shall have it, you shall have my cup; you don't know what a beauty it will be, when it is done. Only let me finish it, and you shall have it in exchange for the stickleback you caught this morning.
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