Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 22, 2025
And a fine job those preparations were. It was all in vain that a meeting was held, and the perch taken; everybody wanted to talk at once, and, what was worse still, everybody did talk at once, and made such a clatter, that Tom, the gardener's boy, threw his birch-broom up in the cedar-tree, and then had his ears boxed because it did not come down again, but lay across two boughs ever so high up and out of reach, to the great annoyance of Mrs Turtledove, a nervous lady of very mournful habit.
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And He said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
He said to me: 'My pearl, my turtledove, my diamond, see here, I place this ring on your finger and swear to be true to you. But I can't marry you as long as that other woman lives who wears my betrothal ring, for our laws forbid it. That woman dwells in the big house at Toroczko. You know her name and know what to do to enable me to marry you."
"Certainly," she cooed, as nearly as a snapping turtle can imitate a turtledove; "that is a genuine Niccola Pisano. The original document is still intact in which he agreed with the cardinal of our house to execute it himself. The portrait of our ancestor who ordered the statue is in the gallery."
Great bustard Stone curlew Big hawks Former abundance of the raven Dogs fed on carrion Ravens fighting Ravens' breeding-places in Wilts Great Ridge Wood ravens Field-fare breeding in Wilts Pewit Mistle-thrush Magpie and turtledove Gamekeepers and magpies Rooks and farmers Starling, the shepherd's favourite bird Sparrowhawk and "brown thrush"
Here, too, is the metropolis of the turtledove, and the low sound of its crooning is heard all day in summer, the other most common sound being that of magpies their subdued, conversational chatter and their solo-singing, the chant or call which a bird will go on repeating for a hundred times.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking