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16410Wherein lies the fundamental difference between these Holometabola on the one hand and the Hemimetabola and Ametabola on the other?
18050How can fly breeding be prevented in such accumulations?
3053311920 sex?
31546The accessory chromosome-- sex- determinant?
27465Why are rooks more sociable than ravens, and what do they gain from such communalism?
31545The accessory chromosome-- Sex determinant?
22748Chitin: the material forming the hard parts of the insect body; it is a secretion( or a metamorphosis?)
22748Male: that sex having organs for the production of spermatozoa: designated by"?
22748Sex: as a number, six: the physical difference between male and female: usually indicated by the sign of Mars(?)
22748for male, and Venus(?)
14473As my friend said, could any one believe this of a well- educated man in the nineteenth century?
14473Is it to be wondered at that those kinds of birds that love shelter and quiet have deserted us?
32605Do you remember who it was that took the form of a serpent, and tempted our first parents to sin against God?
18237Does it not produce the joyous morn on which human beings awake to find that the hot weather is a thing of the past?
18237Is not each of its days cooler than the preceding one?
23259Whoo? 23259 Such work has not the fixed(?) 23259 [ Illustration: SPRING LAMB? 23755 Does an Englishman exist who is not well acquainted with the vivacious bird which makes itself at home in his garden or on his housetop in England? 23755 Is it necessary to describe the starling? 29691 Do any other of the hundred and one things that are necessary for the greatest use and enjoyment of your car? 29691 Do you want to cure ignition troubles? 29691 Get the maximum wear out of your tires? 29691 Keep your transmission in order? 29691 Overhaul and adjust your carbureter? 33531 Orange County: Santa Ana Mts., 3000 ft., 1( vagrant?). 33531 _ Penthestes gambeli baileyae_, American Ornithologists''Union Committee( 1910, p. 351), part(? 33531 _ Penthestes gambeli baileyae_, American Ornithologists''Union Committee( 1910, p. 351), part(?). 33710 24840/32328 USBS, Laredo, Texas Col. J:[ Male]? 26656 Do n''t you think Dame Nature is very generous with her colors sometimes? 26656 Do you ask why? 26656 Have you ever wondered at some birds being so prettily dressed while others have such dull colors? 26656 To what ear are these noises musical? 26656 What do you think of the young chick? 26656 What more interesting than to observe their habits, and discover their cosy nests with their beautiful eggs in the green foliage? 26656 Whither,''midst falling dew While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? 33543 Lago de Pátzcuaro( 22);? 33543 S of Lombardia( 2);? 33543 Smith and Taylor( 1950b:98) apparently accepted Gadow''s statement and recorded the species from Michoacán:above 3000 feet( Jorullo?)."
29349Had she dreamed?
29349I quietly drew close to Philip, and murmured in his ear:"Are you sure it''s the badger?"
29349What do you say to joining me by the church as soon as you''ve had something to eat?
29349What was the cause of that angry chatter, loud, prolonged, insistent, in the fir plantation at the bottom of the field?
29349Whither should he flee?
23576But how are the jaguar, leopard, and panther to be distinguished from one another?
23576Is this the Irish hare turned white, or the true Alpine hare of Pallas?
23576Who knows but that some ardent young zoologist, who has taken his first lessons from this little book, may be the man to supply the desideratum?
23576Who knows?
23576Why so called?
23576Would the"well- known"fact be well- known to the book''s intended readership?
10843As he did not go up with the box( according to his expectation?
10843FIGURE 6.--Sobke stretching his jaws( yawn?)
10843ROTHMANN, M. Ueber die errichtung einer Station zur psychologischen 1912. und hirn[?]
10843Shall we describe the act as ideational?
10843Would he have succeeded better with the same problems if mentally mature?
10843irus_(?).
18320''58?).
18320Amoeba?
18320Fresh(?)
18320SHEVYAKOV?.
18320Small forms inclosed in cup or"house"of ovoid or goblet shape, colorless and probably gelatinous( chitin?)
18320Zoothamnium elegans D''Udekem''64?
18320cohnii_?
18320socialis_ Gruber?
18320velox?_ Quen.
30523What does it cost this garniture of death? 30523 Do n''t you think so? 30523 Do you think they look like young chickens? 30523 Do you wonder, after having been through the war? 30523 He is a veteran, is n''t he? 30523 Is n''t he an odd- looking bird? 30523 Is n''t this American Woodcock, or indeed any member of the family, a comical bird? 30523 Now how do you suppose the ducklings get there as they do? 22311 Are n''t you ashamed to treat my dog that way after I fed you sugar and gave you my lunch?"
22311Did n''t we just track him here? 22311 How do we know?"
22311How do you know it is this one?
22311The forest fire brought me one blessing, anyway, did n''t it, Brown Brother?
22311Think you''ve got me, do n''t you? 22311 What does this mean?"
22311Come right in and help eat it, wo n''t you?"
22311Instead of replying to his question, the man asked,"Is that your coon?"
22311Will you do what I propose?"
33874How are the different orders of insects distinguished from each other?
33874What is a species?
33874*****{ 92} HOW CAN AN"ACULEATE"BE RECOGNIZED?
33874What part in nature does this little rarity play?
34673He''s a beaver all right, but where in tunket did he come from?"
29816Are there any facts which render this explanation plausible?
29816In what has this served him?
29816Is it impelled by a collector''s instinct less perfect than that of the Bower- bird?
29816It is possible; but why, it may be asked, this hypothesis, apparently gratuitous, of strokes of the sting given at random?
29816WHAT TO DO?
29816What can be the object of this strange custom?
29816What is the reason of this change, and to what does it correspond?
29816Why does the bird amass these objects?
35413Nonetheless, the question is raised: Do the five species herein placed in the genus_ Ptychohyla_ constitute a natural assemblage?
30511Did you ever see my nest?
30511Do you think you would be vain if you had my beautiful colors to wear?
30511Have you ever heard a wire vibrating?
30511Have you ever seen a ruby?
30511Is it a gem, half bird, Or is it a bird, half gem?
30511Was it sorrow or joy, fear or hope, memory or expectation?
30511What did he mean?
30511What was the feeling it awoke in our hearts?
30511Why do not some of you children ask your parents to invite a few pairs of Nightingales to come and settle here?
30511Why should not all strong boys become our champions?
30511Will you please make another one that no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one shall kill us to get them?
34094Lumbrineries zonata_ John.?
34094_ Aglaja( Doridium) purpureum_ Berg.?
34094_ Ancula pacifica_ MacF.?
34094_ Cadlina_ Sp.?
34094_ Naineris longa_ Moore?
34094_ Nepthys caeca_ Fabr.?
17748A"blue robe"or"mouse- colored(?)
17748How is it with the Indians of the British Possessions to- day?
17748The island- like patches of persistent old hair alternating with patches of bare brown skin are adorned(?)
17748Western hunters are striving for the honor(?)
17748Who has not ridden over some of the Western railways and counted dead cattle by the thousands?
17748are you hurt, Chardon?''
30221All the little boys and girls playing near would look around and say,"What is that noise?"
30221Do n''t you think my dress is beautiful enough for a king?
30221Do n''t you think my feathers grew in the bright sunshine?
30221Do n''t you think my red breast looks pretty among the green leaves?
30221Do you like my blue eyes?
30221If I tell you where it is, you will not take the eggs, will you?
30221Is it cold where you live, little boys and girls?
30221Is n''t that a funny place to live in?
30221Then they would see you and me and run up fast and say,"Where did you get that bird?"
30221Where shall man wander, and where shall he dwell-- Beautiful birds-- that ye come not as well?
30221Would n''t you like to have me sit on your shoulder, little boy?
30221Would you like to see her too?
30221You would not let them, would you?
36036Altruism in Coati Bands: Nepotism or Reciprocity?
36036What were the metabolic capabilities of these early procyonids?
30666# We Develop and Print Photos for Amateurs#[ Illustration: READY FOR A SNAP: ARE YOU?]
30666Did n''t he once upon a time tenderly cover with leaves certain poor little wanderers?
30666Did you ever hear the voice of an owl in the night?
30666Do n''t you think his face is some like that of your cat?
30666Do you remember another bird family in which the father bird changes his dress each spring and autumn?
30666Do you see how much alike they are?
30666Is n''t he called"The Bird of the Morning?"
30666Of course, it swings and rocks when the wind blows, and what a nice cradle it must be for the baby Orioles?
30666What color would you call them?
30666What could be more beautiful to see than this bird among the green leaves of a tree?
30666What do you think of this bird with his round, puffy head?
30666Which one of the other Thrushes that you have seen in BIRDS does the Mocking Bird resemble?
30666Who ca n''t get five acquaintances to take"Birds"for one year at$ 1.50?
13117Are birds superstitious, I wonder? 13117 Well, would you believe it?
13117Can_ Pastor roseus_ breed in India in some similar secluded spot?
13117Do they believe in charms?
13117Has any writer mentioned that this bird has a faint, but very sweet and plaintive song, which he continues for a considerable time?
13117He says"Does it, then, cross the vast ranges of the Himalaya in its northern migration?
13117Is it possible for the same birds to lay such widely different eggs?
13117Perhaps instinct teaches the birds to injure certain leaves in order that they may decay?
13117Where can they have gone?
13117or does it not rather find on the southern slopes and in the valleys of those mountains all the conditions suitable for nesting?
13117schoenicola_, Bonaparte?
30552Do they build their nests in trees?
30552They chirrup just like sparrows,reflected Bobbie,"can they sing?"
30552What other seeds do they eat, mamma?
30552***"Dear bird,"I said,"what is thy name?"
30552Always, did I say?
30552And then what do they do?
30552Any other names?
30552But you saw me, you say, very often on dead branches of trees, and surely they had no sap in them?
30552Can you guess why I have such a queer name?
30552I would not call it courage to attack anything smaller than myself, would you?
30552Or, strayed from Eden, desolate, Some Peri calling to her mate, Whom nevermore her mate would cheer?
30552Sing?
30552To what family do I belong?
30552what may your name be?"
30626Do you ne''er think what wondrous beings these? 30626 CHICAGO OFFICE--243 Wabash Ave. What would George Washington think of Mark Hanna? 30626 Did you ever hear the blackbirds in the cornfields? 30626 Did you ever see one of my cousins on the ground? 30626 Do n''t you think I earn a little when I work so hard keeping the trees healthy? 30626 Do n''t you think we ought to be great friends? 30626 Do you ne''er think who made them-- who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? 30626 How do the robins build their nest? 30626 Is it because he wears a red hat, That we call him the Cardinal Bird? 30626 Or is it because his voice is so rich That scarcely a finer is heard? 30626 Shall I tell you how I do this? 30626 That he could have shaken the sassafras- tree As he does with the song he was born to? 30626 What POINTS do You Want in a COPYING Machine? 30626 What may be his dainty name? 30626 Where do the robins hide their nest? 30626 of the fiery pit, And how, drop by drop, this merciful bird Carries the water that quenches it? 35838 Ever hook a hybrid? 35838 Expressed in terms of the one- or two- rowed arrangement common to all North American cyprinids, tooth- counts of 0,5- 4,1; 1,3(? 35838 | 38.8|( 68- 76)|( 53.0)|...|( 38- 39)|||| Pharyngeal teeth| 0,5- 5,0| 1,5- 4,1| 1,5- 4,2| 2,4- 4,2||((? 10389 And the wolves, little brother?"
10389Can we find um, little brother?
10389Does he see us, little brother?
10389How many wolf trails you see yesterday, little brother?
10389See us? 10389 Shall we see them again, little brother?"
10389Then where tother wolf? 10389 Why?"
10389As for his motive in the matter, who shall say, since no one understands the half of what a wolf does every day?
10389But they watched her den and her own little ones, that was sure enough; and why should any one watch a den except to enter some time and destroy?
10389Can we rest and not freeze?
10389Had she not herself watched a hundred times at the rabbit''s form, the fox''s runway, the deer path, the wild- goose nest?
10389What could she expect for her own little ones, therefore, when the man cubs, beings of larger reach and unknown power, came daily to watch at her den?
10389_ Trails that Cross in the Snow_"Are we lost, little brother?"
33852Acis_) from the common Blues when on the wing?
33852Do we not rather rejoice that it rests from its labours, and that the period of its glorification is at hand?
33852Hyale_( the next species), the males of which are often seen pursuing the lady_ Edusas_?
33852May not, then, this undiscovered sense, whatever may be its nature, reside in the antennæ?
33852Subject a piece of finest human painting to the scrutiny of a strong magnifying glass, and where is the beauty thereof?
33852What is to be done with our new- born Machaon?
33852What of that?
33852Whence came all these?
33852Wherein do these wings chiefly differ from all other insect wings?
33852Yet, is it really dead now, or do we, who have watched the creature thus far, despair and call it lost?
3549081) should undergo its development without becoming attached to the ground,--what should we then have?
35490But now arises a new set of inquiries; how far into the sea do these animals extend?
35490Do they wander at will in the ocean, or are they bound by any law to keep within a certain distance of the shore?
35490What genie under the sea has wrought this wonderful change?
35490how wide is their domain?
37119?
37119V?
37566How many times does the snapping turtle lay eggs in one season?
37602_ Hyla depressa_ Andersson, 1945:73[ Holotype.--NHRM 1966 from the Río Pastaza watershed(?
30016And how did you know?
30016And, if this later way, which part first?
30016But, continued Hunter,"Why do you ask me a question by way of solving it?
30016How could froggs be ingendered in the ayre?
30016How does this hypothesis shew us, how much salt, how much sulphur, and how much mercury must be taken to make a chick or a pompion?
30016I think your solution is just, but why think?
30016If a collection of parts was necessary, he asks,"how could vermine breed out of living bodies, or out of corruption?...
30016If anyone were so bold as to ask,_ But how do you know?_ only a rather lame answer would come forth.
30016The beane swelling, can it choose but breake the skinne?
30016What internal and external factors permit a successful breakaway from tradition?
30016What shall we believe?
30016What_ was_ a fact?
30016Why not try the experiment?
30965A bully?
30965About my nest?
30965Can I fly?
30965Do I do all these things?
30965Do you know what that trick is called?
30965Good for Christmas?
30965Good to eat?
30965Have I any other name?
30965How do I know?
30965I look something like the Crow in the March number of BIRDS, do n''t I?
30965Is it not impossible to conceive of all this being done by that rational calculation which enables the rower to row, or the sailor to sail his boat?"
30965Just a common Duck?
30965Something about our nests?
30965The farmers do n''t seem to like it, but certainly they ought to pay us for our work in the spring, do n''t you think?
30965Then I think worms as a steady diet are not good for anybody, not even a Crow, do you?
30965What is the reason I''m not a common Duck?
30965Where do I generally live?
30965Why do n''t they like me?
37823_ Specimens examined._--412, as follows: NICARAGUA:"Río Grande"(?
33527B-2/29 1100 2 right whales directly ahead of vessel headed NE--40-foot female?
33527Did it have a dorsal fin?
33527Did it have any highly distinctive markings?
33527Did it jump from the water?
33527Did it ride the bow wave?
33527How frequently did the animal blow?
33527How large was the animal?
33527If it was a large or medium- sized animal, did it show its tail flukes when it began its dive?
33527If it was a medium- sized or small animal, did it approach, avoid, or ignore the vessel?
33527If so, did it make a smooth graceful arching jump, or did it spin, somersault, or reenter with a splash?
33527If so, how tall did it appear?
33527If so, what was its size, shape, and position on the animal''s back?
33527Was the animal''s blow visible?
33527What was its behavior?
33527What was its shape?
33527What was the animal''s color and color pattern?
33527||| Bowhead whale|Black; anterior|?
36922How did they realize that later on they would get dirty every time they journeyed to or from the spot?
36922and S.||+---------------+----------+--------+----------+---------+--------------+| Feb. 3, 1839| 68 ° S.| 190|?
36922|?
36922|| 70 ° 30''|?
25874And how go about this work?
25874Are you wondering if I can fly?
25874Do you know how I rest them?
25874Do you know of any other birds who build their nests so early?
25874Do you not think I am quite as busy as my cousin?
25874Does n''t he look bold enough to do such a trick?
25874Have you heard of it?
25874II.--How did the Birds First Fly, Perhaps?
25874IV.--Why did the Birds put on Soft Raiment?
25874Is n''t he a queer looking bird?
25874Now, have I not a great deal of work?
25874O, purple- breasted Gallinule Why should thy beauty cause thee fear?
25874What would you do if you were I?
25874What would# George Washington# think of Mark Hanna?
25874Why did not somebody think of the scheme before?
25874Why should the huntsman seek to fool Thy innocence, and bring thee near His deadly tool of fire and lead?
25874XIX.--What Mean the Markings and Shapes of Bird''s Eggs?
25874XVI.--Why did Birds begin to Incubate?
25874XX.--Why Two Kinds of Nestlings?
25874XXVII.--How and Why do Birds Travel?
34294A foreigner? 34294 Do I sing?
34294Do n''t you?
34294How well we are repaid for the litter they made, are we not?
34294Well?
34294What is it?
34294You remember that story about the imprisoned Duck that had its leg broken and was put under a small crate, or coop, to keep it from running about? 34294 _ Dee, dee, dee_,"she shrilly cried, fluttering her little wings, which in bird language means,"oh dear, oh dear, what shall I do?"
34294As long as there were black sheep in the world, I do n''t see why there should n''t have been Black Swans, do you?
34294I want to know if they did n''t reason that out, mamma?"
34294That is a much prettier name, I think, than the Red- bellied Woodpecker, do n''t you?
34294The branch bearing both nests is now preserved in the college museum.--_Oberlin College Bulletin._ WHAT IS AN EGG?
34294Then why not call me the Red- eyed Woodpecker?
34294Who after reading Izaak Walton ever went a- fishing with the vigor and enterprise of Piscator?
34294said she, with fine sarcasm,"your heart flew into your bill did it?
36830''What was that?'' 36830 Sir,--Replying to''Wilfred''s''question,''Do badgers kill fox cubs?''
36830But which of us is without a fault?
36830For three seasons he scarcely missed a day, and when a fox was run to ground, no matter after how long or fast a run, the question,"Where is Twig?"
36830What gives to the badger''s jaw its proverbial and terrific force?
36830Who can doubt, that if fox- hunting and otter- hunting were stopped to- day, both these creatures would be extinct within the next few years?
36830two sharp eager barks; what does it mean?''
11135How are you going about it, Lan?
11135How is that?
11135Pooh, what''s a bull to a Grizzly? 11135 Then why do n''t you ear- mark him with them thar new sheep- rings?"
11135Tire him out? 11135 What about the fifty- foot B''ar I saw wit''mine own eyes, caramba?"
11135Where is my pistol?
11135Why not have the guns along to be handy?
11135Ye mean old Pedro''s Gringo?
11135And why not with a Bear?
11135Chained and double chained, frenzied, foaming, and impotent, what words can tell the state of the fallen Monarch?
11135Come, now, is it a bargain-- hands off and no scrap?"
11135How many minutes will it be before the rest are down with them?"
11135It had never failed in church when he was at the Mission, so why now?
11135Jacky, old pard, do n''t you know me?"
11135THE FOAMING FLOOD"What is next, Lan?"
11135What can elude a Grizzly''s dash?
11135Why did n''t we have the guns?"
11135Why value air, when it is everywhere in measureless immensity?
11135Why value grass?
11135Why value life, when, all alive, his living came from taking life?
11135do n''t you know me?"
11135is it true?
32545Are you sure they are all gone?
32545Well, what is it?
32545When shall we start?
32545Who''s that?
32545You think the varmint was straight?
32545Could he reach it?
32545Eh?
32545Fell?
32545How are we going to disarm him?"
32545How had the creatures so quickly solved the complexities of his trail?
32545Mr. McWha, how soon can we be moving?"
32545Or seeing, would he understand?
32545The question was, how soon would a ship come along?
32545There was no air stirring, so why should a leaf whisper?
32545Were all the packages on me, all right?"
32545What better guardian of the treasure than a god?
32545What can I do for you?"
32545What do you think?"
32545What was it?"
32545What would become of the cub if she were killed?
32545Why should he be afraid of this clumsy little creature?
32545Would the lookout on the steamer see?
21007And what isolated spots could be more welcome to the birds than these places that hold so many sad memories for human beings?
21007Furthermore, were there not numerous court decisions upholding the authority of the states in their declarations of ownership of the birds and game?
21007Had the killing of wild fowl suddenly lost its attraction for those who had been accustomed to seek pleasure afield with gun and decoys?
21007How many persons have ever tried to answer seriously the old conundrum:"How many straws go to make a bird''s nest?"
21007Is it going too far to say that the gunmen and trappers had overdone their work?
21007Therefore what had the Government to do with the subject?
21007They used often to ask,''Is to- morrow Bird Day, Miss Beth?''
21007Was it not written in the statutes of nearly every state that the birds and game belong to the people of the state?
21007What did this mean?
21007What of its companions of the night before?
21007What was the good of all the long years of unceasing effort to induce women to stop wearing bird feathers, if this was a fair example of results?
21007Who can see a Wild Duck swimming, or a Gull flying, without at once referring it to the group of birds to which it belongs?
21007Why do not more of the birds that pass in spring tarry in this quiet place for the summer?
21007Why should we not make a bird sanctuary of every city park and cemetery in America?
21007Why?
21007_ Ostrich Feathers Are Desirable._--How is this deep- seated desire and demand for feathers to be met?
21007{ 174} What was the reason for this great change?
37009Had it been riding around upon the body of the butterfly waiting for the time when she should lay the eggs?
37009How did this tiny creature arrive at this particular place at the particular moment when from its own point of view it was most needed?
37009How is it that the instinct to become lethargic lies dormant in the summer broods of caterpillars and shows itself only in the autumn brood?
37009Is it perhaps due to a reaction to the colder nights of the later season?
37009One of the most interesting questions in regard to these egg parasites is this: How does the tiny parasitic fly find the newly laid egg?
37009Or was it attracted to them from somewhere in the immediate vicinity?
37009Perhaps you ask what is the good of all this complicated arrangement?
37009Who will find out?
38032Very much,I answered,"but what are they?
38032After I had tasted of one, Mr. Babcock asked:"How do you like my selection?"
38032With many of these species(?)
36903--_Somersetshire County Herald._ WHICH WAS THE BRAVEST?
36903How is this?
36903WHICH WAS THE BRAVEST?
36903What are they?
36903[ Illustration: Vaginicola(?)
36903animals or vegetables?
36903or something betwixt and between?
30677How many were there of you?
30677But he did not despair for had he not a talent for drawing?
30677Did you ever see a flock of us in motion, in October or November, going to our winter home?
30677Did you ever see one of our nests?
30677Do we go north in the summer as so many other birds do?
30677Do we swallow bones and all?
30677Do you not fancy that Audubon was himself a_ rara avis_ and worthy of admiration and study?
30677How many eggs?
30677How many eggs?
30677I look as proud as a peacock, do n''t I?
30677In a flock?
30677In trees?
30677No?
30677Sing?
30677Sing?
30677Then, the color of my coat is much more beautiful than his, I think, do n''t you think so, too?
30677What are we noted for?
30677What do we eat?
30677Where do we build our nests?
30677Where do we live in summer, and what do we eat?
30677With a hook and line, as you do?
30677Would you like to know how my mate and I go to housekeeping?
30677You think you have seen me before?
36677''Are you sure, Tony,''I rejoined,''that there are such things in existence at all?''
36677He concludes with the question--"To which of the recognized classes of created beings can this huge rover of the ocean be referred?"
36677It proved to be an octopus( query, squid?)
36677What more could be required?
36677What, then, are these mermaids and mermen, a belief in whose existence has prevailed in all ages, and amongst all the nations of the earth?
39275Wherein, then, do they differ?
39275ornatum_(?)
33687Are you here too, freen?
33687The firemen''s dog? 33687 What can it be?"
33687What is it?
33687''Four?''
33687''What is the matter, sir?''
33687''What''s the matter?''
33687Are these your tricks?
33687Could his comrades, then, have assisted him?
33687Had these men any quarrel?
33687Has he no master?"
33687How then?
33687Must we not, from the analogy of the works of God, look to a future state, to find the true end of human existence?
33687On being asked if he would sell her,''What will you give me?''
33687The friend who presented it to him said,"Can you not convey him home in your chaise?"
33687Why so?
33687he would say;''must I be so unfortunate as to have thee sold to many masters, and not keep thee myself?
33687said I, softly;''is any thing amiss?''
25983But the nest of the Jay: Who can find it?
25983Can you think why we do not?
25983Did you ever hear the Catbird sing?
25983Did you ever hear your mamma say when she could n''t get baby to sleep at night, that he is like a little owl?
25983Do n''t you remember in the Bobolink family how differently Mr. and Mrs. Bobolink were dressed?
25983Do n''t you think he looks some like the Canada Jay that you saw in April"BIRDS?"
25983Do n''t you think he ought to have a prettier name?
25983Do n''t you think she was very kind to let me take the nest out of the hedge where I found it, so you could see the pretty greenish blue eggs?
25983Do n''t you think so?
25983Hear you no mother- groan floating in air, Hear you no little moan-- birdling''s despair-- Somewhere for that?
25983I think Chickadee is the prettier name, do n''t you?
25983II.--How did the Birds First Fly, Perhaps?
25983IV.--Why did the Birds put on Soft Raiment?
25983Quite a long name for such small birds-- don''t you think so?
25983What do you suppose Mrs. Catbird''s thoughts are as she looks at them so tenderly?
25983What do you think of their house?
25983What do you think of this nest of eggs?
25983What kind of tree is it?
25983Which one is it?
25983Who ca n''t get five acquaintances to take"Birds"for one year at$ 1.50?
25983Why has he come?
25983XIX.--What Mean the Markings and Shapes of Bird''s Eggs?
25983XVI.--Why did Birds begin to Incubate?
25983XX.--Why Two Kinds of Nestlings?
25983XXVII.--How and Why do Birds Travel?
25983_ Women want_ that?
14226A what?
14226Is n''t this terribly cold? 14226 And why had such a notion never come till the Pussywillow Moon? 14226 But why sometimes alone? 14226 Could it be of any use? 14226 Could it be possible? 14226 Did every grave give up its little inmate at the magic word? 14226 Driven off thrice with gun- shots, would she make another try to feed or free her captive young one? 14226 For weeks afterward I was almost daily accosted by some anxious shepherd, who asked,Have you seen any stray OTO sheep lately?"
14226Had she no head of game for this her only charge, or had she learned to trust his captors for his food?
14226Had the keen huntress failed at last?
14226Have the wild things no moral or legal rights?
14226How came he to know that that would please?
14226How was it to end?
14226Was it the drumming, or the tell- tale tracks of their snowshoes on the omnipresent snow, that betrayed them to Cuddy?
14226Was it the wild, clanging cry that moved them, or was it solely the inner prompting then come to the surface?
14226Was she begging for mercy-- mercy from a bloodthirsty, cruel fox?
14226What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow- creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
14226Whence now came the strange wish for someone else to admire the plumes?
14226Who can tell what his horror and his mourning were?
14226Who does not know it and feel it?
14226Why does a happy boy holla?
14226Why does a lonesome youth sigh?
14226Why not forever with his Brownie bride?
14226Would she?
17185And the herring, Uncle Thomas; does not it come every year from the Polar seas to spawn on our shores? 17185 But how are the nests eaten, Uncle Thomas?
17185But, Uncle Thomas, do n''t you think it is very cruel to kill the beaver so? 17185 But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants?
17185Do they carry the spoil with them when they are thus disturbed, Uncle Thomas?
17185Good evening, Uncle Thomas? 17185 Is it want of food which makes birds migrate, Uncle Thomas?"
17185Is the beaver used for food, then, Uncle Thomas?
17185Of what are they made, Uncle Thomas? 17185 That is enormous, Uncle Thomas?"
17185Which animals do you mean, Uncle Thomas?
17185Which is it, Uncle Thomas?
17185''Four?''
17185''That depends upon her age; I suppose she is past five?''
17185189"prehensile tales"for"prehensile tails"190"more about"should read"move about"195"Good evening, Uncle Thomas?"
17185Are they prepared in any way, or are they fit for use as they are taken down?"
17185Do you think that they are endowed with reasoning powers, as well as the higher classes of animals, Uncle Thomas?"
17185Does the lapwing defend its young with as much courage as the hen?"
17185Is it displayed by any other animal?"
17185It is in old Pennant''s work; here it is; will you read it to us, John?"
17185It is of its skin that hats are made-- is it not?"
17185On being asked if he would sell her,''What will you give me?''
17185Shall I tell you how the hunters capture them?"
17185Uncle Thomas, did you ever hear Dr. Good''s account of a very extraordinary instance of sagacity exemplified by his cat?
17185indeed, Uncle Thomas, do you think that animals understand each other?"
17185should end with?
39904The obvious question, Why do some Crustacea pass through a complicated metamorphosis while others do not?
39904The question which is often asked,"Why does a Lobster turn red when it is boiled?"
39372London, p. 773( for 1865), April, type locality"Brasil?
39372Savinito.--(?
39372Type locality, Upper Missouri River?.
30103Did he come down out of the heaven on that bright March morning when he told us so softly and plaintively that, if we pleased, spring had come?
30103And the brown thrush keeps singing,"A nest, do you see, And five eggs, hid by me in the big cherry tree?
30103And what does he say-- little girl, little boy?
30103Boys and girls, do n''t you think that is a pretty name?
30103But long it wo n''t be, Do n''t you know?
30103Can he keep himself still if he would?
30103Did you ever see any other bird sit up as straight as I do?
30103Do n''t you think I look wise?
30103Do n''t you think Mr. and Mrs. Bobolink look happy in the picture?
30103Do n''t you think it makes a better picture than if I stood alone?
30103Do you blame me for saying so?
30103Do you know what I say in my song?
30103Do you see him?
30103Do you wonder I am proud of it?
30103How did you like it?
30103How do you like my large eyes?
30103I heard the farmer say one day,"Is n''t it nice to hear the Bluebird sing?
30103If you were in my place would you leave it here and not tell anybody and come back to- morrow and finish it?
30103Or would you fly off and get Mrs. Crow and some of the children to come and finish it?
30103Shall I tell you how he amuses his mate while she is sitting?
30103What would# George Washington# think of Mark Hanna?
30103Which one does he look like?
30103Why do you think that is?
30103Would n''t you like to be with us?
30103You never saw baby larks, did you?
30103do n''t you see?
30103was there ever so merry a note?
28530''Hello, what in h---- are ye doin''down there, Job?'' 28530 ''You cut fer camp, an''bring a rope, an''git me out o''this,_ quick_, d''ye hear?''
28530How''s that, Job?
28530Just as he stands?
28530Shure an''why not that?
28530What d''ye s''pose he wants wid us, Barney, annyhow?
28530Where in thunder was yer gun?
28530Which does he go shy on, Mr. Toomey, the love or the fear?
28530Will you believe it, boys? 28530 An''what''s he goin''to eat, anyways, I''d like to know?
28530But what was wanted of him?
28530But where was his rifle?
28530Could it be that they wanted him?
28530Do you suppose that grizzly was goin''to be afraid o''_ me?_ He''d seen me afraid o''_ him_, all right.
28530If not Brace Timmins''dog, as every one made prudent haste to acknowledge, then whose dog was it?
28530Let me be now, wo n''t''ee, old mate?"
28530See?"
28530Should he bag this bear, or should he wait and sound his call again a little later, in the hope of yet summoning the great bull?
28530The wolf cocked his ears slightly and looked about carelessly, as if to say,"What''s that?"
28530Was he badly hurt?
28530Was he to die of thirst and hunger on this high solitude before he could recover sufficiently to climb down?
28530What dog indeed could have mastered Anderson''s"Dan"?
28530What monster could it be that was giving so much trouble?
28530What''ll ye take, boys?
28530What''ll you take for him?"
28530Where was the rest of the pack?
18214Are we going up to the north?
18214Are we taking him to the south?
18214But what is that?
18214Did we seek out the poodle, the collie, or the mastiff from among the wolves and the jackals, or did he come spontaneously to us?
18214Do we ask that he should drive our flocks?
18214Do we intend him to watch and defend our house?
18214Does our prey hide under wood?
18214For how can a poor dog, loving, devoted, faithful, disgrace the name of a man or an imaginary hero?
18214From the ears pricked up to catch the words of man?
18214From the ingenuous and melting eyes?
18214How are we to stand in the street, in the fields, in the market- place, in the shops?
18214Is he intended only for us to play with, to amuse the leisure of our eyes, to adorn or enliven the home?
18214Is he to aid us in the pursuit of game in the plains?
18214What is it now?
18214What is it?
18214When was this recognition of man by beast, this extraordinary passage from darkness to light, effected?
18214Whence exactly did that smile emanate?
18214Whom are you to suffer, whom to stop?...
18214Why rechristen him?
18214Why?
18214Would you have an example?
38315Is it a preconceived idea which is the cause that one regards them in this manner?
38315Is not the lamina of the claw comparable to the wall of the hoof?
38315Let us, then, ask the question: Those artists whose eminence nobody would dare to question, did they study anatomy?
38315Should we, then, in order to maintain the symmetry with human anatomy, first study the forearm in the position of supination?
38315What has become of the other two, the sterno- cleido mastoid and the deltoid?
38315Wherefore this preference?
18767But is the story a true one?
18767Well, then, Giotto, should you like to come and live with me, and learn how to draw, and paint sheep like this, and horses, and even men?
18767What,says one of them,"brother, do you make a practice of hanging sheep?"
18767Whose son are you?
18767''What do I see?''
18767And hast thou fixed my doom, kind master, say?
18767And hast thou fixed my doom, sweet master, say?
18767And wilt thou kill thy servant, old and poor?
18767And wilt thou kill thy servant, old and poor?
18767But what could they do?
18767But where was the midnight musician?
18767Did you ever hear of Giotto, the great painter Giotto?
18767Did you ever hear them say any thing about meeting a single one of the heroes of the frightful stories you have heard?
18767Did you ever see an old cat preparing to make a spring at a mouse or a bird?
18767Friend reader, did you ever see the rabbit bounding along through the bushes, when you have been walking in the woods?
18767His countenance was animated, bearing even an expression of joy; it was evident he had found the child-- but was he dead or alive?
18767How knowing they must have looked, as they said one to another,"Was n''t that thing managed pretty nicely?"
18767She was a heroine, was she not?
18767The biter was bitten that time, was n''t he?
18767Was not this act of the cat the result of something very nearly related to what we call reason, when exhibited in man?
18767Well, if it is not the dark, what is it you are afraid of?
18767What could the poor woman do?
18767What could we do without the labor of this noble and faithful animal?
18767What was to be done?
18767Where shall I begin?
18767With Rover, my old friend Rover-- my companion and play- fellow, when a little boy?
18767Would it not be well for some of our fathers and mothers to attend school, a quarter or so, in one of their villages?
39471----?_ Wings sub- diaphanous, pale sulphur; beneath immaculate.
394714. a?
39471929?
39471Female----?
39471Female----?
39471Inhabits the South Seas?
39471_ Var._?
40802Do they apply in cases where much pollen falls on the body and limbs?
26500The next morning, as soon as it was day, I arose and inquired if Hector had come home? 26500 What are you reading?"
26500''Do you think,''said he,''I will allow my hounds to hunt a bag- fox?
26500''Is this your dog, my friend?''
26500''Sir, how know ye that?''
26500''What on earth is the matter with the dog?''
26500''Why so?
26500A person from within immediately called,"Who is there?"
26500Arous''d by Gelert''s dying yell, Some slumb''rer waken''d nigh: What words the parent''s joy could tell, To hear his infant''s cry?
26500Can the greyhound be trained to the pointer''s scent or the spaniel to the bulldog''s ferocity?
26500Has he no master?''
26500His first inquiry was, whether his dog had been seen?
26500Indeed, where shall we find the man who is free from it?
26500Is not this reasoning?
26500Is the dog guided in acting thus by instinct or reason?
26500May I beg of you the favour to tell me your name?"
26500Was not this a kind of moral sense?
26500What name shall be given To that faculty, Which thus made expectation A source of joy, Which thus made expectation A source of grief?''"
26500Where shall we find dogs possessing such a combination of fine and noble qualities?
26500Who knows for a certainty the true prototype of the goat, the sheep, or the ox?
26500and is it possible that you are subjected to ill treatment, cruelty, and neglect by those who owe you a large debt of gratitude?
26500what remains, Up Fordon''s banks, o''er Flixton''s plains, Of all thy strength-- thy sinewy force, Which rather flew than ran the course?
26500what remains?
26500what was then Llewelyn''s pain?
38077All day long he is shuffling about on the ground picking up minute atoms, whether seeds or insects, who knows?
38077But on what object is it intent all this while?
38077But what, it may be asked, can a bird little larger than a Sparrow find to do with a filbert, or even a hazel- nut?
38077If so, why should they hang about the''old house at home''so many days before they begin to set in order again the future nursery?
38077The Frigate Pelican[ The Skua?]
38077Three notes are often repeated: Did he do it?
38077To the question which naturally suggests itself,''Why does the young Cuckoo thus monopolize the nest and the attentions of its foster parents?''
36473( August 10), and sex?
36473( August 10), sex?, 40825, 10.3 gm.
36473( August 15), and sex?
36473( August 2), Isla Mujeres; sex?
36473( August 2); sex?
36473( August 8), sex?, 40832, imm.
36473( July 13), and sex?
36473( July 14), sex?
36473( July 17), and sex?
36473( July 21), Pisté; sex?
36473( July 21), sex?
36473( July 23), Pisté; 40612, sex?
36473( July 23), and sex?
36473( July 8), sex?
36473; sex?
36473Specimens( 10): sex?
36473Specimens( 3): sex?
36473W Escárcega; sex?
36473W Escárcega; sex?
36473W Escárcega; sex?
33421And what less than speech could have enabled them to execute this feat?
33421And why should not this be the case?
33421Could instinct be the guide in such an act?
33421He will look into the glass, and then at me, as if to say"Where did you get that monkey?"
33421If it be said in reply that apes were the progenitors of man, the question then arises,"Who was the progenitor of the ape?"
33421If man derived his other faculties from such an ancestry, may not his speech have been acquired from such a source?
33421If man would only pause and calmly view the facts, he would find that he is but a joint heir of Nature; and why not so?
33421If one sound communicates that idea clearly, what more could volumes do?
33421If the prototype of man has survived through all the vicissitudes of time, may not his speech likewise have survived?
33421If the races of mankind are the progeny of the Simian stock, may not their languages be the progeny of the Simian tongue?
33421If the voluntary sounds they make do not mean something, why may those creatures not as well be dumb?
33421If their sounds convey a fixed idea on a given subject from one mind to another, what more does human speech accomplish?
33421If their sounds discharge all the functions of speech, in what respect are they not speech?
33421If they do mean something, why may we not determine what that meaning is?
33421In what respect would man be less god- like if it be shown that monkeys talk?
33421The question has been asked,"Who is the progenitor of man?"
33421Then why should the vocal powers alone be abnormal, except in a degree measured by the difference of place which they occupy in the scale of Nature?
33421Was this instinct?
33421What else but reason could have prompted this act?
33421What less than reason could have prompted these dogs to such an act?
33421Where shall the line be drawn which separates these attributes?
33421Why are all forms of mammals endowed with vocal organs?
33421Why should Nature bestow on them these organs if not designed for use?
33421[ Sidenote: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EMOTION] Why should it be thought strange that monkeys talk?
33421[ Sidenote: SPEECH DEFINED] What is speech?
39887? ALLOTHERIA( p. 96).
39887It appears, however, that occasionally( once in their lifetime?)
39887Stomach with only four compartments(?
39887Teeth, more or fewer, are found in both jaws, but those of the mandible are alone functional(?
39887The Killer Whale,_ Orca_, is the only genus( or species?)
39887The question is, What is the relation of these bonelets to the coracoid of the Monotremata and to the corresponding regions of reptiles?
39887[ 354] Or absent?
39887_ Giraffa camelopardalis_ and the species(?)
34131''But,''the reader may be inclined to ask,''why should we not be satisfied with the one popular name only?''
34131''Is n''t_ that_ one a beauty?''
34131A boy is often easily surprised by a playmate who approaches him stealthily from behind, but did you ever try the same game with a butterfly?
34131Are we looking at a deformity?--a failure on the part of Nature to produce what she ought?
34131But how is this to be done?
34131But how many facets do we find in a single eye?
34131But how will the caterpillar proceed if it is removed from its native tree and has no bark to gnaw?
34131But what if you give it_ nothing_ with which to work, and so inclose it that nothing its jaws can pierce is within its reach?
34131But why not call them legs, seeing that they are used in walking?
34131Did we not say only a few minutes since, that a beautiful butterfly or moth was about to emerge?
34131Does the female herself derive any benefit from the particular plant chosen for this purpose?
34131Has the perfect insect any selfish motive in this apparently careful selection of a plant on which to lay its eggs?
34131How shall we account for the fact that the specimens so kindly sent us by our friends are generally moths?
34131How, then, is this?
34131Is it because moths are more numerous and more frequently seen?
34131Is it due to a poorness of the soil?
34131Shall the boards be perfectly flat on the top, or shall the sides slope from the groove, or shall the surface be rounded?
34131The mournful thought with them is,''Is life worth living?''
34131The question is-- How shall we set to work about the construction of a collecting box?
34131What will it do now?
34131Why not allow the poor creatures to reach the sugar that attracted them to the spot?
34131but who ever heard such an expression from the lips of an active entomologist?
20750DROSOPHILA?
20750DROSOPHILA?
20750DROSOPHILA?
20750EPHYDRA?
20750LONCHÆA?
20750Length of the body 4?
20750Length of the body 4?
20750MASICERA?
20750MUSCA ERISTALOÏDES, n. s.( genus Pollenia?
20750MUSCA MACULARIS, n. s.( genus Chrysomyia?
20750Ornithomyia parva?,_ Macq.
20750Subfam.----?
20750THERMESIA?
20750Why is this bird so extraordinarily abundant, while others producing two or three times as many young are much less plentiful?
20750Why, as a general rule, are aquatic, and especially sea birds, very numerous in individuals?
20750Wild cats are prolific and have few enemies; why then are they never as abundant as rabbits?
20750_ Female?_ Larger.
20750_ Var._?
20750_ Var._?
20750cincta_?).
20750finigutta,_ Walk._ 126?
20750hæmorrhoidale?__ Hab._ India, Java, Celebes.
20750imperata,_ Walk._ 126?
20750melanospila,_ Walk._ 126 Dryomyza semicyanea,_ Walk._ 109 Ectatomma rugosa,_ Sm._ 143 Empidæ,_ Leach_ 91, 129 Ennomidæ,_ Guén._ 193 Ephydra?
36304This is my first attempt to write in my Token; why may it not be the last? 36304 ''Do you intend to prosecute your studies alone?'' 36304 A strong curiosity soon prompted me to inquire,''What is your name, my little boy?'' 36304 And where death''s boasted victory, his last triumphant spell? 36304 By force, temporal power, temporal rewards, earthly triumphs? 36304 Creery?'' 36304 His infidelity now began to give way, and he inquired with solicitude:Is there such a thing as the new birth, and if so, in what does it consist?"
36304How then was the subject of this memoir influenced by_ religious_ considerations?
36304I have passed the flower of my days in a state little better than slavery, and have arrived at what?
36304Is it for this that their zeal is so warmly displayed in proselyting?
36304Is it surprising that sceptics should abound, when the slightest allowance of belief would force them to condemn all their actions?
36304Is it, then, wonderful that such a system should find revilers?
36304Is such the gain to accrue for the relinquishment of our souls?
36304What do sceptics propose to give us in exchange for this system of Christianity, with its''hidden mysteries,''''miracles,''''signs and wonders?''
36304What is the mode in which this most extraordinary doctrine of Christianity is to be diffused?
36304What motive could the evangelists have to falsify?
36304even there wilt be my guardian and my guide, For what is pain, if Thou art nigh its bitterness to quell?
18193But why did one bird stay on the rail? 18193 But why not?"
18193Doth he not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
18193How do I know my chicken? 18193 Now what is that fellow doing there?"
18193What kind of a stick are you, anyway?
18193Who are you?
18193_ Tsic a de- e- e- e?_ Do n''t you remember yesterday? 18193 _ Tsic a de- e- e- e?_ Do n''t you remember yesterday?
18193_ Tsic a dee?_ Did n''t I fool him!
18193And do they have any means of communicating them, as they sing their love songs?
18193And do they know coram, and leave- stocks, and prisoners''base, and bull- in- the- ring as well?
18193And the object of the digging?
18193Are his eyes bright enough to find it hair by hair where the wind has blown it, down among the leaves?
18193As it was, who can say what was passing behind that curious, half- puzzled, half- savage gleam in his eyes?
18193But how did they learn, all at once, of the coming of an enemy whose march is noiseless as the sweep of a shadow?
18193But what had they done with it?
18193But what was he doing there?
18193But where does he get it?
18193Did some crow fetch his best trinket for the occasion, or was this a special thing for games, and kept by the flock where any crow could get it?
18193Did the Indians originate this, I wonder, in their direct way of looking at things, almost as simple as the birds''?
18193Did they find the bright object as they crossed the pasture on the way from Farmer B''s corn- field, and the game so suggest itself?
18193Did they learn their game from watching us at tag, I wonder?
18193Do birds have romances?
18193If you ask the boy there who tells you the law,"Why not a chickadee as well as a sparrow?"
18193Is not this one of the rare animals in which all the instincts of his kind are lacking?
18193Listen--"You are surprised?"
18193Or was the game first suggested, and the talisman brought afterwards?
18193Or was the idea whispered to some Indian hunter long ago, as he watched Merganser teach her young to dive?
18193Was it a special privilege of the crow who first found the talisman, or do the crows have some way of counting out for the first leader?
18193What were his impressions, I wonder, as he sat on a limb of the old apple tree and thought it all over?
18193Who first was"it,"as children say in games?
18193[ Illustration] Did you ever meet a fox face to face, surprising him quite as much as yourself?
41782); more rarely in the New Forest(?
40880To Caterham?
40880To Oxshott?
40880Which way?
41880What about all that talk of shootin''that skunk at sight?
41880Yet who can say that it was not a spark of the same divine fire which glows in the heart of man that made him risk his life for another?
34165Do you think a bird born and bred as I was would go to housekeeping in an old tea- pot, Mr. Wren? 34165 Does it?"
34165Has he any other names, mamma?
34165Oh, it is?
34165Oh, you do n''t?
34165Tell me something about their nests?
34165That''s my reward for staying about this house and the grounds all the time, is it? 34165 Then what did you say,"returned Mrs. Wren with a little cackling sort of a laugh,"what kind of a house is up there to let anyway?"
34165Well,cheerfully,"how did he do, my dear?"
34165Where?
34165Why?
34165Can Mr. Red- eye sing?"
34165Did you ever hear me whistle?
34165Do n''t you hear their gentle"coo, coo"?
34165Have you ever heard a hyena in the Zoo?
34165How do we know they thank us?
34165I look like a foreigner, do n''t I?
34165Is Quail another name for Bob White?
34165Still, do n''t you find I''m out of sight While I am saying Bob White, Bob White?"
34165To him the bird seems to say,''_ You see it; you know it; do you hear me?
34165We might suppose him to be repeating moderately, with a pause between each sentence,''You see it-- You know it-- Do you hear me?--Do you believe it?''
34165Who said anything about either, I''d like to know?"
34165Wren?"
34165You do n''t say?"
34165You do n''t think my mouth is pretty, did you say?
34165do you believe it?_''""I''m going to look out for that red- eyed preacher next summer,"said Bobby, with a laugh.
34165would you think it?
34160--"What,"he continues,"can we infer from all this?
3416016, declares it to have been brought from Media,& c.?
34160Are there many new genera?
34160At length he said,''Will you help me with my work on Ceylon, and you shall lodge with myself?''"
34160Did not Threlkeld give him much more just cause of offence?
34160Do you believe the tuna, or melocactus( pardon the word), and the arbor vitæ, were known to Theophrastus?
34160In what shall I excel others if what you taught me privately be communicated to all?
34160Linnæus himself relates the occurrences which took place during this interview:"''Do you wish to see my plants?''
34160Pray tell me who Perses was, what countryman, and who is the author that relates his introducing peaches into the European gardens?
34160Pray, what time of the year, and what kinds?
34160To whom can I urge my anxious wishes but to you, who are so devoted to me and to science?
34160What good have Ray and Rivinus done with their quarrels?
34160What man was ever so learned and wise, who, in correcting others, did not now and then show he wanted correction himself?
34160What other science can rank abler men among its cultivators?
34160Who ever fought without some wound, or some injurious consequence?
34160Who is furnished with a sufficient stock of observations?
34160Who is gratified by''the mad Cornarus,''or''the flayed fox,''( titles bestowed on each other by Fuchsius and Cornarus)?
34160Who will ever believe the_ Thya_ of Theophrastus to be our arbor vitæ?
34160Why do you give the name of cactus to the tuna?
34160Why then should you provoke me to a dispute?
34160Will you be more severe than any body else?
34160and would he not have risen much higher had he left him unmolested?
34160asked Burmann,''which of them would you inspect?''
34160how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go?''"
34160quoth she,''what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to a place never visited by any one before?
34781Whence doth the mournful keynote start? 34781 2 2= 259* Restless Flycatcher=, Scissors Grinder, Grinder, Willie Wagtail( e), Dishwasher( e), Who- are- you? 34781 And all for what? 34781 But how shall an Australian bard sing ofThe Red- rumped Acanthiza,"or of that delightful songster,"The Rufous- breasted Thickhead"?
34781Could blind, unreasoning slaughter do more?
34781Does the young live on its fat all through the cold, rough winter, or do the parents return at intervals to feed it?
34781Feeble"What is it?
34781From the pure depths of Nature''s heart?
34781Have you heard one?
34781How do they find their way there, across a gap of over 1000 miles, without any land whatever?
34781If ornithologists, with skins in hand, can not separate them, what is the use of manufacturing species?
34781Inherited memory is strong, but how did the first batches find their way?
34781Is there a city boy who does not know the Greenie( White- plumed Honey- eater)?
34781Or, from the heart of him who sings, And deems his hand upon the strings, Is Nature''s own?"
34781The question is, does each find its own nest when it returns to sit?
34781What is it?"
34781What is the use of the upper nest-- for the male to rest in, to delude the cuckoo, or what?
34781What study is of greater economic importance to this wealthy, though occasionally insect- troubled, land?
34781Where are those birds now, when needed to stem a locust plague?
34781Who does not know the harsh note of the Wattle- Bird( Wattled Honey- eater)?
34781Whoever heard of an Australian who was proud of his Eagle, though it is something to be proud of?
34781Why kill a harmless bird?
31558(_ d._) orifice of acoustic(?)
31558(_ e._) Orifice of the acoustic(?)
31558(_ e._) Orifice of the acoustic(?)
315582_ e_) of the acoustic(?)
31558; eyes, p. 49; olfactory organs, p. 52; acoustic(?)
31558ANATIFA SESSILIS(?).
31558ANATIFA TRICOLOR(?).
31558Acoustic(?)
31558Acoustic(?)
31558Although it may be admitted that Lithotrya has the power of enlarging its cavity, how does it first bore down into the rock?
31558Eastern Seas[60](?)
31558I am tempted to believe, that the largely developed olfactory sacks, and perhaps, likewise, acoustic(?)
31558I could not distinguish the orifices of the acoustic(?)
31558MALES, two, lodged in hollows, on the under sides of the scuta; pouch- formed, with four(?)
31558Maxillæ, with three(?)
31558May we not, then, safely conclude that these parasites are the males of the_ Ibla Cumingii_?
31558Organs acoustic(?)
31558Parasitic on Medusæ, Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans: south shore of England(?
31558The acoustic(?)
31558The aperture leading into the acoustic(?)
31558The main rostral channel( or artery?)
31558The posterior(?)
31558Why, then, is Ibla unisexual; yet, becoming, in the most paradoxical manner, from its earliest youth, essentially bisexual?
31558_ Acoustic_(?)
31558anatifera_(?)
34454Ca n''t you see they''re just a couple of puppies larking round?
34454Can ye do it, man?
34454Did ever ye see the likes o''that for nerve?
34454Had n''t ye better be fetchin''the canoe round to the front, where ye kin keep an eye onto it?
34454How''ll ye like it, sleepin''along o''that bunch o''bed- fellers, Tom?
34454It_ is_ becoming, is n''t it?
34454Think''twon''t be too cold fer ye by the door?
34454What''ll ye be givin''me,he inquired, proffering his plug of choice tobacco,"ef I git yer pig back fer ye?"
34454What''s that, now, way down behind them yaller birch trunks?
34454What''s the good o''spilin''good skins by shootin''''em now? 34454 Who''s been lettin''loose the menagerie?
34454Why did n''t ye let me have a hand in the job?
34454_ Kr- rr- rr- eee?_he murmured softly, as if in sarcastic interrogation.
34454But I''d like to know who''s been here afore us, an''_ rolled up_ this here skin so tidy- like?
34454But why were they there?
34454Did ever ye see so many o''them together afore?"
34454Guess we''ll call it square, eh?"
34454How did it happen that the trail had thus grown fresh all at once?
34454If the bird died agonizingly afterwards, who was going to swear that he was the slayer?
34454Or hev I got the nightmare, mebbe?"
34454Should he follow up the trail at once?
34454They have no intuition, so how can they understand?"
34454They''ve et ther rabbits, an''what''s one small rabbit to a_ rale_ hungry bear?
34454What could a moose- cow be thinking about to remain so near the dangerous neighbourhood of a man?
34454What would they want to travel for, when they''d got such a dead easy thing right here?"
34454What''ll ye take now?"
34454Where, then, could she be?
34454Why did n''t I think o''that afore?"
34454Why should the ungodly triumph?
34454Will ye look at them rabbits down yander?
19850Do you still eat your enemies?
19850Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? 19850 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
19850Again he speaks of"the land of darkness and the shadow of death,"and says:"Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
19850And why should man define the limit of God''s goodness, His love, care, and attention to the wants and needs of all His creatures?
19850Are we not all of us fellows and co- workers, partakers of the same universal life, sharing alike a common source and destiny?
19850But even if this were true, what made them originally follow such a course?
19850But who is there who does not believe that there is more to a man than that?
19850By what right does he presume to deny a soul and a continued spiritual existence to lower animals?
19850For example,"In death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave, who shall give thee thanks?"
19850How, then, does Susie comprehend those commands unless through her understanding of the meaning of the words in which they are conveyed?"
19850II ANIMAL MUSICIANS_"Nay, what is Nature''s self, But an endless strife towards Music, euphony, rhyme?
19850If you agree that we can not treat men like machines, why should we put animals in that class?
19850In early years, Who thinks, reflects, or even fears?
19850Merely because we have a superior intellect which enables us to rule and enslave the animals, shall we deny them all intellect and all feeling?
19850Nothing demonstrates plainer that they have a common language; otherwise, how could they understand that one of their number had been wounded?
19850Or who could fail to interpret the glee when he has done a noble deed and been praised by his master?
19850Suppose a wolf or a wild hog could not tell how many dogs were attacking it?
19850Then why should he not consider the animals as only a little lower than himself?
19850What more is there for us to learn of Nature''s secrets?
19850Whence came that most preposterous idea?
19850Who can be sure that he does n''t know it?
19850Why should the animal be punished by death, if he has no soul to be forfeited?
19850Why should we fall into the colossal ignorance and conceit of cataloging every human- like action of animals under the word"instinct"?
19850Why should we reproach him for his wildwood philosophy?
19850Why should we show such foolish pride and delusion, and try to baffle one of God''s great facts?
19850XIV AS THE ALLIES OF MAN_"Who, after this, will dare gainsay That beasts have sense as well as they?
43090Do_ we_ stand rigid, like a foot- soldier on drill?
43090Does not a bird, as well as ourselves, accommodate itself to the thing on which it rests?
40282Genus_ Dikkomys_ p. 516 A''First and second molars becoming monoprismatic in final( adult?)
40282The Jinglebob interglacial( Sangamon?)
40282_ Chronologic range._--Late Pliocene( Benson and Curtis Ranch local faunas, Arizona, and? Rexroad Formation, Kansas) to Recent.
1901After all, what place has the roar of a rifle or the smell of sulphurous powder in the midst of all this blessed peace?
1901Go hunting with ye? 1901 Got what?"
1901Guess you''re green-- one o''them city fellers, ai n''t ye, Mister? 1901 Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
1901Is the spring really coming? 1901 Kinder keep a lookout for my sheep, will ye, Mister, down''t this end o''the pond?"
1901No room for doubt here,I thought;"Mooween was asleep in this pool, and the kingfisher woke him up-- but why?
1901There is nothing for them to stand on there; how did they begin that hole?
1901What means this path, Simmo?
1901And when I questioned a hunter, he said:"That ol''beech pa''tridge?
1901Are n''t you ashamed?"
1901Are-- are you a harbinger?"
1901But what was this?
1901But who made a portage here?"
1901But would the deer live?
1901Chickadees followed me shyly with their blandishments-- tsic- a- deeee?
1901Hain''t seen''i m, hev ye?"
1901I wondered lazily;"and how can they ever raise a brood, with an open door like that for mink and weasel to enter?"
1901Many questions have come of late with these same letters; chief of which is this: How shall one discover such things for himself?
1901Mister, what yer follerin?"
1901She clucked again-- did the ground open?
1901Still Simmo watched, as if a bear were approaching his bait, till I whispered,"Quiee, Simmo, what is it?"
1901They live much now in the trees, which they dislike; but with a score of hungry enemies prowling for them day and night, what can a poor grouse do?
1901What did he think and feel, looking back from his hiding, and what did his loud whistle mean?
1901What is it?"
1901What sense of fear brooded here and whispered in the alder leaves and tinkled in the brook?
1901What was it in the air?
1901Would he do it?
1901Would the cur dogs find the yard and exterminate the innocents?
1901and did he do it on purpose?"
1901how shall we, too, read the secrets of the Wood Folk?
1901what you after to- day-- bears?"
1901would he dare?
43431(?
43431?
43713Kane, in his_ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland_, mentions a specimen taken in Co. Kerry, July 21, 1865; one from near Belfast[ in 1875?
43713Moths( Heterocera) also belong to the same order, and the first point to deal with is how may butterflies be distinguished from moths?
26457But how do they become sensible of it?
26457But how is it possible to conceive that their ovaries contain male eggs alone?
26457But this expansion will be imperfect; why?
26457But what is the secret means employed by nature to induce her departure?
26457But what is the use of these laminæ?
26457But what means does she use to excite their fury against them?
26457But why do they lay male eggs only?
26457But why does nature exact so great a sacrifice?
26457But why has nature prohibited copulation within the hives?
26457Do they by any secret means excite the fury of the combatants?
26457Here then is the same result as M. Hattorf obtained?
26457How do the bees on the surface of the comb discover that the queen is not on the next comb?
26457Is it because after losing the antennæ, these queens have no more any characteristic which distinguishes the one from the other?
26457Is it true, that it is unproductive unless fixed in this manner?
26457Is their object to accelerate the combat?
26457It may be asked whether that part we call the penis, is the sole part introduced into the female during copulation?
26457May not the old mother be disgusted with her habitation?
26457What influence has the size of the cells where the eggs are deposited on the bees produced?
26457What is the physical cause of this difference?
26457Why then can they no longer distinguish the worms of drones when deposited in the royal cells?
26457Why therefore in this experiment did the workers allow their mutilated queen to depart alone?
26457Why, after rendering the queen so much attention while she lived among them, did they abandon her now on her departure?
26457Why, then, is this order inverted by retarded copulation?
26457Why?
26457Why?
26457_ IS THE QUEEN OVIPAROUS?
26457or may she not be influenced by some particular circumstances to abandon all her possessions to the young female?
3947712?
394772?
394773?
39477892?
39477A?
39477And what has been the result?
39477Crown with a small ocellus?
39477Eburna lutosa?
39477Vertex ocellatus?
39477lutosa?__ Lam.
39477lutosa?__ Lam.
40100He has heard the cerulean warbler singing through July and until the middle of August; on August 19, he heard them singing"immature or imperfect(?)
40100Now as Audubon was intimately associated with Bell, is it not possible that he had examined this example of Brewster''s warbler?
40100The other contained 3 lampyrids( near_ Podabrus_), 8 percent; a small coleopterous(?)
40100Why and when did it come to be misspelled Protho?
40100montana_( Wilson), the blue mountain warbler, which is"known only from the plates of Audubon and Wilson"; and_ Wilsonia_(?)
40100Ã ¦ stiva_, but much paler; adult male lighter and much more yellowish olive- green above, the back frequently( usually?)
28077And what does he say, little girl, little boy?
28077How do you know, mother? 28077 Mother, what is the world?"
28077My dear son, what is the world like?
28077Please, sir,asked the wee simple things,"are you a mouse?"
28077Pray tell me why?
28077What are mouse- traps?
28077What do you mean by the goose taking her?
28077What will you do?
28077Where''s my brooch?
28077Who will pipe?
28077Who will play For us to- day?
28077Who''ll be the bearers?
28077Who''ll dig her grave?
28077Why do you let the poor creature come all the way by herself, and across the bridge, too? 28077 Why not here?"
28077Yes; but where?
28077--"Who saw her die?"
28077Ah, what am I to do?"
28077And what do you think I saw?
28077Did you ever see such a thing in your life As three blind mice?
28077Do n''t you hear?
28077Do n''t you see?
28077Have you ever been there?"
28077He rapped at the door, and asked of the woman who opened it,"Does the blind woman who comes to church every Sunday live here?"
28077How came you here?"
28077If she did not come down before the meal was begun, Polly would say, in the most piteous tone,"Where''s dear mother?
28077In a little while they came up where the old cow was feeding; and White- paw, taking off his hat, said,"Please, are you a mouse?"
28077Is not dear mother well?"
28077Little Bo- peep said,"Why do you keep So near to me every day, sir?
28077Next she will cry; and if you say,"Poor Poll, what is the matter?"
28077Next they met a motherly old hen, who was busy in scratching up food for her chickens; and White- paw asked,"Please, ma''am, are you a mouse?"
28077Now, do n''t you think my little bunny Must be kind as well as funny?
28077Pertnose?"
28077The mouse he caught, and then he cried:"What next am I to do?
28077The rook he cawed, and he hummed and hawed, And muttered,"What matter, what matter?"
28077What does this little blind animal, that can only creep along, do?
28077Where shall I wander?
28077With your very sharp beak, pray what do you seek, For you always seem just in my way, sir?"
28077_ ALICE''S BUNNY._ Would you hear about my bunny, All his little ways so funny?
28077and how does it get away from enemies?
28077how can he get a living?
28077what''s the matter?"
27933Do n''t you know that a beaver''s tail is supposed to be one of the finest delicacies in the woods?
27933Put him back in the water? 27933 Say, Hulbert, what am I going to do?"
27933Why do n''t you eat it?
27933And is it likely that, even if he had tried for weeks and weeks, he could ever have found his wife of the previous summer?
27933But how did his new friend feel about it?
27933But was he hit hard?
27933But was she the same wife who had helped him make the Glimmerglass ring with his shouting twelve months before?
27933But what does that matter?
27933But where was that gap in the fence?
27933But you think he might have stayed with her, anyhow?
27933Did you know that among all God''s creatures the birds are the only ones whose eyes close naturally in death?
27933Do you blame him for not being more faithful to the memory of the bird who was shot at his side only a few months before?
27933Do you suppose they recognized their mother?
27933Do you think he was very inconstant?
27933Do you want to know what they looked like?
27933Does it make you wish you were a loon yourself?
27933Had not she, too, put on a wedding- garment just like his?
27933How could it have happened?
27933Or shall we say the old love of work, and of using the powers and faculties that God had given him?
27933Or, is there something deeper than that?
27933Was it any wonder if he sometimes felt as if he would like to fight every other buck in Michigan, and all of them at once?
27933Was it any wonder if in time the Porcupine came to think himself invulnerable?
27933Was it to be reasonably expected that Mahng, when he was ready to return, would search every pond and stream from the Cumberland to the Gulf?
27933Was not half of his right hand gone, and three toes from his left hind foot?
27933What do you take me for?"
27933Why should one live on rye- bread when one can have cake and ice- cream?
27933Why should the thing that is called genius in a man be set down as instinct when we see it on a somewhat smaller scale in an animal?
27933Would n''t she?
27933Would she go with him?
27933in a triumphant tone;"who says mice are n''t good bait?
40109And why should not heads be collected and made much of, as well as pelts and meat?
40109Are the forelegs, and hind legs also, too close together?
40109As the specimen gets old, and its circumference grows smaller by degrees, and beautifully(?)
40109Do not the legs walk naturally?
40109Is one of the front legs bent forward at the carpal joint?
40109Is the animal coupled too short?
40109Is the manikin now so secure that you can sit upon it without racking it?
40109It certainly gives a better specimen, and if such tricks leave no visible trace upon the animal, where is the harm?
40109Of course, if you care to travel with them and see to their handling at every transfer, that is another thing, but who can do that?
40109What is a tiger worth with the top of his head blown off, or a deer with a great hole torn in his side by an explosive bullet?
40109What is the matter?
40109When shells are obtainable, who can resist the impulse to gather them?
40109Who has not seen great suffering endured for the lack of a simple remedy costing only a few cents?
37127''An''what dog in this counthry would touch a sheep, an''they wid''em all day?''
37127''Are ye sayin''that it was a dog all the while?''
37127''Is al''me sheep to be worried on me that the gintry may hunt their dirthy foxes over me land?
37127''Pull him down, is it?''
37127''Where had ye him cot?''
37127''Where have ye that felly o''yours shut at nights?''
37127''Who will climb up and fetch him?''
37127But surely a fresher draught blew through the stones?
37127But why should he bask when rain was falling?
37127Could they restore a darkened eye, or rejuvenate weakened limbs?
37127Did n''t I see him cross the path below, an''he a cub?''
37127Did some kind angel stoop and whisper a word of warning to Zoe?
37127If there was vastness and mystery in the fields, how much more under the trees?
37127Of the short hot nights of June-- of their mystery, and their majesty, and the ways of their children, what do men know?
37127Should he, Grimalkin, Cat- King of Knockdane, give up his kill?
37127The next night the rest did likewise-- why hunt when they were not hungry?
37127What brought Redpad to Kilmanagh that winter''s night?
37127What might not be lurking outside?
37127Why did the daffodils dance in the breeze?
37127Why did the throstle pipe overhead?
37127Why was the Spring Longing so insolently apparent in every bud and bough, and why did they flaunt it so heartlessly in his face?
39472( male?)
39472Blue- headed Creeper?
39472Lingua jaculatoria, tubularis, furcata?
39472Lingua--?
39472Pepit bleu de Cayenne?
39472Tongue retractile, tubular, forked?
39472Tongue--?
39472_ Amosus?_ C. d. Orbicular; lower wings short, orbicular.
39472_ Polydamas?_ Lin.
39472_ c._?
39472_ f._ 1.?
39472_ f._ 1370.?
39472_ f._ 33?
39472_ f._ 431?
39472_ fig._ 1577.-8?
39472_ fig._ 1874& 5?
39472_ fig._ 42& 43?
27975And how far do the limits of varieties extend?
27975And shall I return to this scenery never?
27975Are they, as some affirm, merely different names for the same animal; or do they designate animals which are really and truly distinct?
27975At what age does the curly hair appear which constitutes the mane of the wild bull?
27975Bos Sondaicus?_[ Illustration] The above figure was drawn from a stuffed specimen in the British Museum.
27975Bos----?_ This singular animal is only found in Abyssinia, and is famous on account of its horns, which are of an almost incredible size.
27975Can any one say wherein consists the similarity between a dwarf Zebu and a Mouse, or a Flamingo?
27975Can the milk of a rabid cow be drunk with impunity?
27975Can the term large be equally applicable to animals of such different sizes?
27975Dans l''ombre d''un ormeau, Quand danserai- je au son du Chalameau?
27975How many pairs of ribs are there in the skeleton of the Chillingham Ox?
27975How many vertebræ are there( from the skull to the end of the tail)?
27975In what month does the rutting take place among the wild cattle?
27975Is the family safe?
27975Or between Buffaloes, whose horns are partially covered with skin(_ Dermaceros_), and cocks and hens(_ Rasores_)?
27975Quand reverai- je en un jour, Tous les objets de mon amour, Mon père, Ma mère, Mon frère, Ma soeur, Mes agneaux, Mes troupeaux, Ma bergère?
27975What constitutes a species?
27975What is the precise time the wild cow goes with young?
27975What is this but saying that a bull- calf is a bull- calf, and a cow- calf is a cow- calf?
27975What more can be predicated of cattle in the purest state of health?
27975Where is that boasted power of man over nature?
27975Where is that boasted power of man over nature?
27975Where the fruits of long- continued efforts and fostering protection?
27975Where the fruits of long- continued efforts and fostering protection?
27975Will the wild cattle breed with the domestic cattle?
27975_ Bos Bubalus?_[ Illustration] Not much is known of the Buffalo which is found in the island of Pulo Condore.
27975_ Bos----?_ THE ZEBU, OR BRAHMIN OX.--(_Var.
27975to nearly 11 ft. Can the term long be equally applicable to animals of such different lengths?
35888104_ verso_] I belieue[?]
35888105._] Sr I craue your pardon for this delayed returne unto your last, whose courteus acceptance& worthy entertaynment[?]
35888Brittle Stars(_ Ophiocoma sp?_) are as Browne states most frequent about Hunstanton, Burnham, and Cromer.
35888Can it be that even at that time young Cranes were to be obtained?
35888Fungus rotundus maior I haue found about x inches in Diameter& half[_ sic_, have?]
35888Haue[ you] piscis octangularis Bivormii?
35888I forgot in my last to signifie that an oter[ an other?]
35888In his tract on"Hawks and Falconry,"Browne further says:"How far the hawks, merlins, and wild- fowl which come unto us with a north- west[ east?]
35888Though the woods and dryelands about[ abound?]
35888Viscum-- polypodium-- Juli pilulæ-- Gemmæ foraminatæ[ formicatæ?]
35888[ V] the quills[ about_ crossed out_] of the biggnesse of swans bills[_ sic_ quills?]
35888_ Gemmæ foraminatæ[ formicatæ?]
35888aspera_; the Shagreen Ray?
35888back heron coloured intermixed with long white fethers the flying(?)
35888fethers black the brest black& white most black the legges& feet not green but an ordinarie dark cork[?]
35888some whereof in ye shell& some taken out& spred upon paper wee shall[ still?]
35888whether you will subexpand[?]
43363Are we to include New Zealand in this region?
43363Are we to include this in Ethiopia or speak of a Malagasy region?
43363Is anything of the kind likely in the case of earthworms?
43363What reason can be assigned to this variability, which might be supposed unnecessary in view of its functions?
39854= Shall I supply you?
39854Are Lanier''s allusions to Nature exact?
39854Are you familiar with these things?
39854But who has stirred a Barn Owl?
39854Can you assist?
39854Can you include Minnesota for appropriation for this purpose?"
39854Do you know the trees in your neighborhood as well as Thoreau did those about Concord and Walden Pond?
39854Does he awaken too, and take his part in the general re- creation of Nature?
39854H. GILLILAND,_ Carlisle, Ind._ Notes from Nebraska What is the most abundant bird in a given locality?
39854How did Thoreau learn so much about Nature?
39854How many separate things in Nature are enumerated by Lanier in the excerpt from"The Symphony?"
39854If you wished to tell a person who knew nothing about Nature, what to listen and look for, how many things could you name or describe to him?
39854Is it possible that my neighbor''s experience was out of the ordinary?
39854Might it not have been my family of last year?
39854Now, was this a polygamous family, or was it one pair of Martins and a non- mating female?
39854What is miniver?
39854Which author seems to know Nature best?
41550Why should I deprive my neighbour Of his goods against his will? 41550 But about this common thing, an Egg? 41550 But the egg, what of that? 41550 Can we describe its nature and construction in a way sufficiently clear for our readers to understand? 41550 WHAT IS AN EGG? 41550 Well, who made them so? 41550 Who is not awakened in the bright summer mornings by the twittering of the young birds near his bed- room window? 41550 and of what_ are_ they made? 41550 and what reason is there for this peculiar arrangement of the different parts of an Egg? 44705 ? 44705 _? 44705 _? 19550 P.S.--Do any of the Eastern Bengal races call this mithun gayal?"
19550Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
19550;_ Biyu- khawar_, Telegu;_ Tavakaradi_, Tamil;_ Bajru- bhal_, at Bhagulpore( Santali?
19550Cockburn gives the following measurements of a female, which he states is the largest recorded specimen:"Length of body( head and body?
19550Could Mr. Sterndale kindly let me know the Latin name for the''bhutar''?
19550DESCRIPTION.--"A small field(?)
19550HABITAT.--All over Europe and Northern Asia, in Turkestan and Yarkand(?)
19550HABITAT.--Andaman islands; Nicobars(?)
19550HABITAT.--Burmah, also Malayan peninsula and archipelago(?)
19550HABITAT.--Chybassa, Central India, Mussoorie(?)
19550HABITAT.--Himalayas( Thibet?
19550HABITAT.--Ladakh and the Upper Himalayas, Afghanistan(?)
19550HABITAT.--Scattered throughout India generally, Assam( Burmah and Ceylon?
19550HABITAT.--Southern India, Ceylon, Burmah?
19550Had not each village its Shikari?
19550Has he ever observed that( as far as my experience goes) the horns of domestic goats invariably twist the_ reverse way_ to those of markhor?
19550How has he acquired the knowledge of the incongruity of the two things, dirty water and clean linen?
19550If it had been an ordinary panther who would have cared?
19550If water, where is it stowed in sufficient quantity?
19550In some specimens( males?)
19550Look at him now, and say, is he not a quarry well worth the hunter''s notice?
19550NATIVE NAMES.--_Kok_, Canarese;_ Golatta- koku_, Telegu of the Yanadees;_ Yea- kwet_(?)
19550Of panthers how many have we, and how should they be designated?
19550RHINOCEROS_ vel_ CERATORHINUS( CROSSI?)
19550Rhinoceros_ vel_ Ceratorhinus( Crossi?)
19550SIZE.--Head and body, 2 inches; tail(?)
19550Some sportsmen speak of a smaller panther which Kinloch calls the third( second?)
19550The canines( false molars?)
19550The question still remaining open is, What is the fluid-- water or a secretion?
19550Therefore that remains; but what is the smaller one to be called?
19550Therefore, if diet has operated in effecting such changes, why has it not in the human race?
19550Tytleri_?)
19550What could they do?
19550What is it?
19550_ Chaus_ or_ Bengalensis_?
19550are the young born with eyes open or shut?
19550jagte ho!_""Are you awake, brothers?
19550men who could boast of many an encounter with tiger and bear, and would they shrink from following up a mere animal?
21138( Do a few only, more intelligently curious than the rest, or for the sake of their health, travel?)
21138( How long?
21138( Is it from''pousser,''as if they were a kind of budding of bird?)
21138( Wall- walker?
2113830 Is there_ one_ of the Arts, More dear to men''s hearts?
2113866 And whence arose Love?
21138Among marshes, it is of weeds and grass; but among icebergs, of what?
21138And first, Where does he come from?
21138And now I return to our main question, for the robin''s breast to answer,"What is a feather?"
21138And, indeed, are not all our ideas obscure about migration itself?
21138But do you think you would find it easy to hop like a robin if you had two-- all but wooden-- legs, like this?
21138But even in the paltry knowledge we have obtained, what unanimity have we?--what security?
21138Captain( or Admiral?)
21138Do you chance to have read, in the Life of Charles Dickens, how fond he was of taking long walks in the night and alone?
21138Do you suppose that this is part of its necessary economy, and that a swallow could not catch flies unless it lived in a hole?
21138F. Samet- Hennle-- Velvet( silken?)
21138Has it not been sung by every knife and fork,''L''extravagance culinaire à l''Alderman,''at York?
21138How exclusively, do you suppose, he really belongs to us?
21138How long, do you think, it would take him, if he flew uninterruptedly, to get from here to Africa?
21138In moving straightforward( under water?
21138In what parts-- how far-- in what manner?
21138It is still left to question, first, what is meant by a wet depression?--does the bird actually sit in the water, and are the eggs under it?
21138Minster- walker?)
21138Rufigena, I suppose, blushes herself separate from Ruficollis of Gould?
21138Secondly, is the floating nest anchored, and how?
21138Sparrows, or pigeons, or partridges, what does it matter?
21138T. Tropazarola?
21138T.?
21138Then they go south in the winter, for food and warmth; but in what lines, and by what stages?
21138There is a problem for you, students of mechanics,--How does a swallow turn?
21138What do you suppose it is?
21138What does it do with one wing, what with the other?
21138What will it build with?
21138and, if not, how is the water kept out?
36504What is a variety?
36504(?
365041.?
365043, 4(?
365045.?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504?
36504After_ Ephydatia meyeni_, p. 108, add:-- Ephydatia fluviatilis,_ auct._?
36504Does extreme heat have a similar effect on aquatic organisms as extreme cold?
36504POLYZOA:-- 1.?
36504TYPE,(?)
36504TYPE--?
36504TYPE?
36504This(?)
36504[ Footnote I:"What characters are of systematic importance?"
36504_ Lophopus_(?_ Lophopodella_), sp.
36504_ Plumatella repens_, van Beneden(?
36504_ S._(?
36504_ S._(?
36504_ Spongilla friabilis_?, Carter(_ nec_ Lamarck), J. Bombay Asiat.
36504and the kindred questions,"What is a subspecies?"
36504and"What is a phase?"
36504calcuttana*, nov.?
36504|+---------------------------------+----------------------+--------------+|[_ Bimeria vestita_]|?
36504|||+---------------------------------+----------------------+--------------+|[_ Membranipora lacroixii_]|?
29839Ai n''t he the livin''image of Jim?
29839And will you swear, too?
29839But I thought as how ye would n''t kill anything?
29839But how do you know there are sixteen or twenty beaver in my pond?
29839But tell me, why did you bring me away out here to_ this_ pond, to tell me all this, when you could have done it just as well at_ my_ pond?
29839But what do_ I_ care about_ trapping_ beaver?
29839But why do n''t you_ shoot_ the poor little beggars? 29839 But, father,"protested his wife, in a doubtful voice,"how kin I leave Lidy an''Joe here alone?"
29839But,continued Jabe,"what would ye say would most upset the beaver and make''em careless?"
29839Did ever you see the likes of it, father?
29839Hain''t I never set for hours in the wet ma''sh, never movin''a finger, waitin''for the geese?
29839Hain''t I never sneaked up on a watchin''buck, or laid so still I''ve fooled a bear?
29839Hardly seems fair to take them that way, does it?
29839If we take away their guns, what''s the good of making them swear?
29839So?
29839The children?
29839What are you going to do with them, Jabe?
29839What do you mean by that? 29839 What do you mean?"
29839What is it?
29839What size do you use for the beaver?
29839What''s it mean, Kid? 29839 Why-- where''ve they all gone to?"
29839You do n''t, hey, sonny?
29839You understand? 29839 An''what''s kep''you? 29839 And are you sure you could keep still long enough to see anything?
29839And why did n''t Dave speak?
29839And will you take oath, also, that you will never, in any way, try to get even with either him or me for having downed you this way?"
29839But what''s wrong here?
29839Can I have him, Unc''Joe?"
29839Had he any special business with us, do you suppose?"
29839How were they going to keep this unwelcome visitor from betraying them?
29839IF ANYBODY WANTS TO SAY, WHY NOT?
29839Now, supposin''you was goin''to trap, where would ye set the traps?"
29839See?"
29839That''s quicker for both, and just as easy for you, ai n''t it?"
29839Then he said:"That was a mighty slick shot of yourn, d''ye know it?
29839Then why had she not come?
29839What could it mean?
29839What will you show me?"
29839What''s all this blood all over ye?"
29839Where''s she gone to?"
29839Where''s your camp, men?"
29839Will you do as I ask you, or shall I go and get them?"
29839what''s happened to him?"
3031A what?
3031How''s things on the Perico?
3031Is n''t this terribly cold? 3031 Nigh about chuck time?"
3031What, you did n''t shoot?
3031Where did you run across him?
3031You did n''t have no reefreshments along?
3031And why had such a notion never come till the Pussywillow Moon?
3031And yet when, long afterward, I told this to one skilled in the occult, he looked grave, and said,"Bingo always turned to you in a crisis?"
3031But why sometimes alone?
3031Could it be of any use?
3031Could it be possible that he had really killed the widow''s sheep?
3031Could it be possible?
3031Did every grave give up its little inmate at the magic word?
3031Driven off thrice with gunshots, would she make another try to feed or free her captive young one?
3031For weeks afterward I was almost daily accosted by some anxious shepherd, who asked,"Have you seen any stray OTO sheep lately?"
3031Had she no head of game for this her only charge, or had she learned to trust his captors for his food?
3031Had the keen huntress failed at last?
3031Have the wild things no moral or legal rights?
3031How came he to know that that would please?
3031How was it to end?
3031I took charge of the horses, vastly relieved, and with an air of assumed unconcern, asked,"All right?"
3031If we were to abandon a yaller dog, a greyhound, and a bulldog on a desert island, which of them after six months would be alive and well?
3031Indeed?
3031SILVERSPOT, The Story of a Crow I HOW MANY of us have ever got to know a wild animal?
3031Should I ever again see him alive?
3031Sometimes his inspection produced only an air of grave attention, as though he said to himself,"Dear me, who the deuce is this?"
3031The scornful reply of his owner was,"Why do n''t you try to buy one of the children?"
3031Was it the drumming, or the tell- tale tracks of their snow- shoes on the omnipresent snow, that betrayed them to Cuddy?
3031Was it the wild, clanging cry that moved them, or was it solely the inner prompting then come to the surface?
3031Was she begging for mercy-- mercy from a bloodthirsty, cruel fox?
3031What did it all mean?
3031What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow- creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
3031What satisfaction would be derived from a ten- page sketch of the habits and customs of Man?
3031What should he do?
3031What sleepless angel is it watches over and cares for the wild animals?
3031What would become of me now?
3031Whence now came the strange wish for someone else to admire the plumes?
3031Who can tell what his horror and his mourning were?
3031Who does not know it and feel it?
3031Who now can say that there is nothing in omens?
3031Why did I let my brother go away alone?
3031Why does a happy boy holla?
3031Why does a lonesome youth sigh?
3031Why not forever with his Brownie bride?
3031Without stirring I said,"Bing, do n''t you know me?"
3031Would she?
44729Hello, dad,cries a voice in my ear,"what are you up to?
44729CHAPTER XIII What Became of the Wild Pigeon?
44729If these flocks were pigeons, where have they been hiding all these years?
44729Such being the case, can any blame be given an Emmett County jury if they required evidence direct and to the point before convicting?
44729What are you hustling around so for with your old shot pouch and powder- flask?
44729You may ask, What did you do with so many pigeons?
38516What are they aiming at, what are they trying for?
38516Are there the same differences among the bees, perhaps, as among ourselves, some of them being gossips, and others not given to talk?
38516Has a council of bees been summoned to consider whether they really must go?
38516Is she commanding or imploring?
38516Is she hastening their departure, or trying to prevent it?
38516Is she the cause of all this emotion, or merely its victim?
38516Is this so certain?
38516Need we wonder, then, if our knowledge is still somewhat limited?
38516Oh bees, we wonder, why all this toil and suffering?
38516Oh little city, so full of faith, and mystery, and hope, why do your thousands of workers sacrifice themselves so cheerfully?
38516What happens then to the old queen?
38516What is this"spirit of the hive"--where is it to be found?
38516What would the bees do, if we, by force or by some trick, were to bring a second queen into the city?
38516Who is it selects from the crowd those who shall stay behind, and dictates who are to go?
38516Why, one asks, do they show this amazing zeal; what makes them so cheerfully abandon all their present happiness?
38516Why, we ask ourselves, why do they give up their sleep, the delights of honey, the leisure that their winged brother, the butterfly, enjoys so gaily?
38516Would the mere sight of our movements, our buildings, machines and canals, give him any very real idea of ourselves?
38516You may ask, perhaps, what does it matter to us whether the bees have or have not a real intelligence of their own?
38516You will wonder, can these be the same friendly, hard- working bees that you have so often watched in the past?
44056100?_ Mus.
44056322?_ In Mus.
440563?
440567. p. 314._ M. nigra?
44056Anterior feet small, slender, imperfect, the tarsal joints?
44056Are we therefore to refrain from characterizing or naming them, because their relative value can not, in the first instance, be ascertained?
44056Family,?
44056Family?
44056Is there no one, in all our vast Oriental territory, to record something of the feathered inhabitants of the Eastern World?
44056Is there not, throughout India, even_ one_ of our countrymen, imbued with the spirit of a Wilson, a Levaillant, or an Audubon?
44056_ Rufous- necked Weaver._---- Family Fringillidæ?
40000(_ Leguatia gigantea_,_ Porphyrio( Notornis?)
40000* 1783(?)
400001852, p. 19(?).
400002._ Outline of Dodo( and Pelican?)
400003._ Outline of Dodo( and Pelican?)
40000?
40000B. N. Zealand II p. 125?
40000B. p. 430) says:"In the collection from the Glenmark Swamp, South Island, are bones that scarcely differ, save in size, from the dimensions(?
40000Botany Bay( 1783?)
40000Habitat: Lord Howe''s Island(?).
40000London 1860, p. 381(?
40000NECROPSITTACUS(?)
40000One stuffed specimen( Type) and one skeleton in Paris, one skeleton in Florence, and one stuffed specimen in Liverpool( an species diversa?).
40000The bill of the supposed female?
40000VI., p. 31,( 1854?).
40000_ Nesomimus trifasciatus_ Charles?
40000_ Notornis?
40000_ Ocydromus?
40000_ Sittace?
40000_ Strigiceps leucopogon_ Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant 1840(?
40000_ Totanus_(_ Tryngites?_)_ cancellatus_ Gray, Cat.
40000_?
40000in Frans Franckens(?)
40000{ 123} HYPOTAENIDIA(?)
40000{ 164} ALECTROENAS(?)
40000{ 62} NECROPSITTACUS(?)
40000{ 71} BUBO(?)
42282But why do beaver need or want the pond which the dam forms?
42282Could these mud houses stand this?
42282From these varied and conflicting prognostications, how was one accurately to forecast the coming winter?
42282Had an agent been sent to invite these colonists, or had they come out of their own adventurous spirit?
42282How did they know the situation of the colony in the willows, or that it had escaped fire, and how could they have known the shortest, best way to it?
42282How does he sink it to the bottom?
42282How long does a beaver live?
42282How would the Moraine Colony handle theirs?
42282Why had this and several other large aspens been left uncut in a place where all were convenient for harvest?
42282Why were they cutting this dead wood, and why a dam across a rocky flat,--a place across which water never flowed?
42282Would a new house be built this fall?
42282Would these energetic people starve at home or would they try to find refuge in some other colony?
42282Would they endeavor to find a grove that the fire had missed and there start anew?
45597Proboscis unarmed(?).
45597_ Elasmopus brasiliensis_ Dana?
45597rubricata_ Montagu(?)
44096(?)
44096(?)
44096(?)
440965.--Miltogramma mestor?"
440966.--Sestra humeraria,_ var._(?)
440969.--Pteromalus(?
44096Closely allied to this species is_ Dasycolletes purpureus_(?)
44096_ Dasycolletes hirtipes_(?)
44096_ Miltogramma mestor_(?)
44096_ Oxyethira albiceps_(?)
45044And is it you?
45044Have you forgotten?"
45044In the end the lure of life in the open won; or was it the old militant alley and chummy gutters?
45044Is it against all religion that God might perhaps let such a pagan bundle of unrepentance into Somewhere?
45044Surely"the boys"had deceived her in regard to having taken the cat across the river, or how could this marvel be?
45044That the meek appealing eyes Haunted by strange mysteries, Find a more extended field, To new destinies unsealed?
45044You do Not Suspect Us of Having Seen Any of Your Birds This Morning?"]
45044You do not suspect us of having seen any of your birds this morning?"
45044[ Illustration] The cat tails spring up in the hollow But where can their late owners be?
10617A fish lying thus on its side would have one eye buried in the sand, and quite useless, would it not?
10617Have you ever found their empty eggs on the sea shore?
10617Have you ever watched those little sailing- vessels which go a- shrimping?
10617How are Coral- reefs formed?
10617How are flat fish usually caught for the market?
10617How can he do this?
10617How could you tell the Sea- lion from the real Seal?
10617How do the Sting- fish and Sting Ray defend themselves?
10617How does the Angler- fish catch its prey?
10617How does the Greenland Whale eat its food?
10617How does the Octopus capture its prey?
10617How does the Octopus escape its enemies?
10617How does the Plaice escape its enemies in the sea?
10617How does the Sand Goby anchor itself?
10617How does the Sand Goby build its nest?
10617How does the Sea- stickleback build his nest?
10617How does the Sponge obtain its food?
10617How does the Sword- fish attack its prey?
10617How does the Thresher Shark hunt its prey?
10617In what ways are the Sea- horse and Pipe- fish alike?
10617In what ways are these rock- pool fish so well fitted to live in such places?
10617In what ways is the Sea- horse so different from most other fish?
10617Inside the great mouth the_ Remora_?
10617Of what use are Sharks?
10617SEA FURZE] How does the Sponge animal cause this current; and how is it made to follow a certain path?
10617The Octopus belongs to an order of molluscs with a long name, which only means_ head- footed._ Why is he called head- footed?
10617The bitter cold of their northern home is nothing to them, for are they not snug in a deep blanket of blubber?
10617Were they to be classed as animals or as vegetables?
10617What are the eggs of the Skate and the Dog- fish like?
10617What could be better for a fish that lies flat on the ocean floor?
10617What creatures prey on the Cuttle and Octopus?
10617What food do the Sperm and Greenland Whales eat?
10617What food does he find?
10617What guides them?
10617What happens there in the springtime?
10617What is Coral?
10617What is a Sardine?
10617What is a"Whitebait?"
10617What is a"drift- net,"and how is it used?
10617What is the Saw- fish like?
10617What is the food of the Plaice?
10617What is the food of the Skate, and how is it obtained?
10617What is the meaning of the words"mollusc"and"octopus"?
10617What mortar can he find in the sea?
10617Where are the Seal"rookeries"?
10617Where are they going, and why?
10617Where is he to get all that food?
10617Where would you find the Sand Goby, the Pipe- fish, and the Sea- stickleback?
10617Why are there no Coral- reefs in our seas?
10617Why do they go_ this_ way and not_ that_ in the vast ocean?
10617Why is the Sea- elephant so named?
10617You would expect them to be kept in a hole amid the nest, would you not?
10617[ Illustration: THE WHITE RAY] What is this fierce fellow doing so near our coast?
44191Can he see me?
44191Does he merely do this as a bluff and then recede from the attack?
44191How big is he?
44191How could any one requite such integrity with anything unkind?
44191How does the victim escape?
44191Is it best to fire into the black shadows, or to wait for his attack?
44191Is it wrong that I should requite such devotion and fidelity with reciprocal emotion?
44191Moved by such conviction, who could fail to pity that poor, lone captive, in his iron cell, far from his native land, slowly dying?
44191Or does he follow it up and seize his victim, tear him open and drink his blood as he is supposed to do?
44191What becomes of all those that are attacked by this fierce monarch of the jungle?
44191What becomes of the assailant?
44191What does he intend?
44191What is his exact pose?
44191Who lives to tell the tale?
44058---- SPECIFIC(?)
4405843, f. 4?_ Mus.
44058743?__ Trichoglossus hæmatodus.
44058GENERIC(?)
44058Genus(?)
44058Genus(?).
44058Genus----?
44058Lucanus?
44058Sw._ Genus----?
44058_ Aberrant_, Pammon, Drusius?
44058_ Sub- Typical_(?).
44058_ Sw._ Genus----?
44058_ Swains._ GENERIC(?)
44058b.?_ Helicodonta.
46362Close to the hindermost vas efferens is seen a body which resembles a rudimentary segmental tube(_ rst?_).
46362Connected with the foremost one is seen a body which looks like the remnant of a segmental tube and its opening(_ rst?_).
46362On each side of it are a pair of short papillæ( aborted feet?)."
27887Ai n''t he a beauty?
27887Could we not save the Buffalo as range- cattle?
27887Did you never meet a Grizzly or a Mountain Lion?
27887Do n''t you draw any color line?
27887Harry, wo n''t you come out and let me take you back to mamma? 27887 If I come in a fur coat, will you treat me?"
27887Now what_ did_ I catch you for?
27887Say, bar- keep, who''s to pay?
27887What is that?
27887What is the meaning of this?
27887What the---- is the---- meaning---- of this----?
27887Where is my gun?
27887Who owns wild beasts? 27887 ***** And afar in Livingston what did the fur dealer care? 27887 As we neared camp he turned on me suddenly and said:Now, Mr. Seton, what_ is_ the meaning of this?
27887Could any simpler, smaller pleasure than his be discovered?
27887Did he take alarm and run?
27887Do any of you want a F- I- G- H- T----!-!-!?"
27887Do n''t you see I''ve made Elk medicine and got her hypnotized?
27887Harry, do n''t you know your mother?
27887How''ll you swap that quirt for my rifle?"
27887How?
27887How?
27887It was a great prize-- or the banker?
27887My wife sat up and exclaimed,"Is n''t it glorious?
27887Now I had him, what was I going to do with him-- kill him?
27887Now what is the meaning of it?"
27887Of what use are courage and strength when one can not reach the foe?
27887THE BADGER THAT RESCUED THE BOY And little Harry, meanwhile, where was he?
27887THE MOST WONDERFUL FUR IN THE WORLD What is the Silver Fox?
27887THE POACHER AND THE SILVER FOX How is it that all mankind has a sneaking sympathy with a poacher?
27887Then I said to my wife,"Have n''t_ you_ got nerve enough to help with this box?
27887What had he to fear-- he the little lord of all things with the power of smell?
27887Which is the one?"
27887Who can tell the crack of a small rifle among the louder cracks of green logs splitting with the fierce frost of a Yellowstone winter''s night?
27887Who cares?
27887Who knows?
27887Who''s your friend?"
27887Why did he not carry that little gun?
27887Why did he not realize?
27887Why should travel- worn, storm- worn travellers wake at each slight, usual sound?
27887Why this difference?
27887Why?
27887Wo n''t you please look this way?"
27887You see that pile of logs over there?
27887do n''t you know me?
27887he got his five hundred, and mother found it easy to accept the Indians''creed:"Who owns wild beasts?
27887said one of the cowboys,"would n''t a little fresh milk go fine after all that ptomaine we''ve been feeding on?"
27887what?"
27887you want to see a real old- time Elk fight?
4399147(?
43991DISTRIBUTION.--Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Paraguay(?
43991To what influence in their surroundings can all these variations be ascribed?
43991_ Ateles vellerosus_(_?_)( nec Gray), Scl., P. Z. S., 1871, p. 478.
43991_ Lagothrix olivaceus_, Spix,?
43991_ Saimaris sciurea?_( nec Linn.
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
43991_?
38675Ai n''t yer got enough fresh meat in this''ere cow I''ve foraged fer ye? 38675 But what was that noise we heard, along about an hour back?
38675Did ye think to bring anything to eat with ye?
38675Do ye want to be left to the b''ars and the h''a''nts, in the big black woods, all by yer lonesome?
38675How fur, would ye say?
38675Or would ye rather be et, good an''decent, an''save ye a heap o''frettin''?
38675So ye''re goin''to be Mary''s ma, eh?
38675What did I tell ye?
38675What ye doin''here, sonny? 38675 What''re ye gruntin''about, Tom?"
38675Whatever would we have done without Mary?
38675Which is nearest,queried Jackson,"Conroy''s Upper Camp, or Gillespie''s, over to Red Brook?"
38675Who''d ever''a''thought any bull elk could lick a painter_ that_ quick?
38675But something seemed to tug suddenly at his arm-- or was it at his heart?
38675But what did he care for the disapproval of the sorrel horse?
38675Could he check himself before reaching the brink?
38675Did you shoot anything?"
38675Hain''t yer got no consideration for Mary''s feelings?
38675How long, he wondered, would the sentinel remain tireless?
38675How was it possible that such an awful sound should come from those unmoving wings?
38675Or how long would those ravening watchers remain obedient to the authority that denied their hunger relief?
38675Then he came and glared up at McLaggan, as much as to say:"Did you see that?
38675What d''ye want fer her as she stands?"
38675What d''ye want o''me, anyhow?"
38675What if one of the misguided birds should foul his propeller or come blundering aboard and snap a stay or a control wire?
38675What was the chill and lonely wilderness to him, a dog?
38675What was the great owl trying to get at, when the precious fish were all spread out before her?
38675What''ll ye take?"
38675What, then, was in the basket?
38675Why did not the fugitive stop and make ready some defense?
38675Why should he not climb up and help himself?
46416But what about the white breast of this bird, which marks it out at long distances against the dark rock or water?
46066One can be interesting and easy even in writing on the driest scientific subject,--why not then give ease and grace to our museum specimens?
46066This much being decided, it at once occurs to the beginner, What kind of a weapon shall I get?
46066Thus if you are unable to determine the sex satisfactorily, say so by drawing a line through the sex mark and substituting a query(?).
43496797 Notodonta 3 Notodontæ?
43496802 Dimorpha 3 Notodontæ?
43496804 Ptilophora 3 Notodontæ?
43496816 Arcturus 6 Lariæ?
43496And again, may not minor centres typify those beings on whom HE has been pleased to bestow a marked superiority over those around them?
43496From this position, then, a further and still more important question arises,--What is the type of Lepidoptera?
43496Have we not already experienced the greatest difficulty in finding three good approaches, the smallest number which a sub- class can possess?
43496Let us ask, To what does all the arrangement tend which has here been so lavishly bestowed?
43496Now, is this applicable to Papilio?
43496Such a heterogeneous group, then, is Neuroptera: its characters as given,[27] I believe, perfectly correct; and can any one say they are sufficient?
43496The next species I am acquainted with seems to be Rumia cratægaria, and after it the Thorn moths, as they are termed( Crocallis?
43496What term can then be applied to designate the real value of this species of approach?
43496Where this is the case, what can definition avail?
43305?
43305?,_ Cuneus vittatus_,_ D.
43305?,_ T.
43305Buccinum 10?
43305Corbula 22, 23?
43305Devon?, Guernsey, R. as Brit.
43305INTERMEDIA?,_ Sowb._--Perhaps only the young of_ L.
43305Medit., Brit.?
43305OVALIS?,_ Sowb._--_M.
43305Odostomia 1, 8, as_ plicata_, 9, as_ plicata_, 10?, 12.
43305arenaria_,_ pellucida_?, and_ d._--Exmouth, Lerwick, etc., R. Ribbed and spirally striated.
43305cornea_?,_ T.
43305dilatatus_?,_ M.
43305littoralis_?
43305obtustale_?
43305pallidula_?
43305patula_ var.?
43305pellucidus_?
43305pusillum_, var.?
43305seminulum_?, T. 22.
460551) has another rendering of the superstition, thus:"But now how stands the wind?
46055Into what corner peers my Halcyon''s bill?
46055See, how stand the vanes?
46055To the East?
40334''Little beggars,''thought I,''do you really imagine you are going to get a penny out of me?''
40334Does it end five miles south of Charing Cross, at Sydenham, or ten miles further afield, at Downe?
40334How does it happen that there are so many of these strays in London?
40334How many cats are there in London?
40334Is it permissible to ask for whose advantage this large number of ducks is reared and fattened for the table at so small a cost?
40334It is a very big town, a''province covered with houses''; but for the ornithologist where, on any side, does the province end?
40334Or, looking north, do we draw the line at Hampstead, or Aldenham?
40334Seeing that I was observing their antics, one shouted to the other,''Say, Bill, got a penny?''
40334To begin with, what is London?
40334Was this Kensington raven, it has been asked, a wild bird, or a strayed pet, or an escaped captive?
40334Why does he stay?
40334Wo n''t yer share my''umble''ome?
40334Would it not be better to leave it to Nature in the parks, too, to do her own killing in her own swift and secret manner?
40334_ Why_ was it destroyed?
40334she''s got a load, ai n''t she, Bill?''
46590And what is the explanation of such bizarre signs as the spectacle or the eye- spot on the hood of the Indian Cobra?
46590In the first these vestiges are reduced to a single bone( ilium?)
46590May not this marking be in some way correlated with sensory organs, like the apical pits on the scales of the body?
46590The reported occurrence of this snake in Bulgaria is based on a specimen labelled"Bulgaria(?)"
26014Waterton says--''The atmosphere of spirit of turpentine will allow neither acarus nor any insect to live in it: Do you believe this?
26014When doctors differ, who shall decide?
2601420 is the next, and I fancy I hear some reader exclaim,"What on earth has a goffering- iron to do with taxidermy?"
26014After washing it sufficiently they anointed those parts with sheep''s butter(?
26014Again, what can this teach?
26014Are these to be entirely eliminated from the collection?
26014Could human perversity and bad taste go much further?]
26014For what entomologist dare tell me that he has no mites in his cabinet?
26014I said at once,"You have been using quantities of arsenic, and probably dry?"
26014If it possesses the chief advantage claimed for it, why use camphor in museums under the idea that it drives away moths?
26014In which division are we to place this?
26014Is it likely to have a mate?
26014Is it real science-- or what is it-- which would label syenite a"Leicestershire"rock?
26014Is it the user of camphor, of creosote, of phenic acid, or of corrosive sublimate?
26014Is the crest to be erect?
26014May I ask if anyone can define a"local"bird from a"British"bird, or a"British"bird from a"foreign"bird?
26014May I look around?"
26014May it not have been a product distilled from the actual cedar tree( one of the coniferae) similar to our oil or spirit of turpentine?
26014Moonlight nights are, as a rule, blank ones for the"sugarer"--(Do the moths fly high to the light?)
26014My readers will say, How is the necessary lantern held all this time?
26014Natron(?
26014Need I warn the reader against such flights of fancy and works of art?
26014Now this insect has been taken three times( perhaps more?)
26014Now, what is natron?
26014Pennant mentions that the Saxon King Ethelbert( who died in 760) sent to Germany for a cast of falcons to fly at cranes( herons?).
26014Put this in, or leave it out of the"local"division, and what does it teach?
26014Taking the list of vertebrates of any midland county, how many of them do we find could be collected if we left out of count the"accidentals?"
26014The question again arose, What could such a"model"system as this teach?
26014What do you propose?
26014What is the consequence of this to the user of wet or dry arsenical preparations?
26014What is the sum total of this?
26014What is to be done then?
26014What, then, can this teach?
26014What, then, is our way out of this difficulty?
26014Why, then, should valuable space be wasted for three birds, simply to perpetuate an error in working out a crotchet?
26014Why, then, this foolish prejudice against the high- set?
26014Will it nest here?
26014Will this bird be likely to stay if unmolested?
26014Would it not be readily absorbed through the hands into the system?
46849I said to two countrymen, who were standing by,''How was it that these Toads escaped Saint Patrick?''
46849Why has he come up?
46849[?
31847Does the dog belong to you?
31847What do you think of that, my dog?
31847What does he want now?
31847What does that dog want?
31847Why, Thomas,said I,"what''s the matter with Rose?"
3184724, 1892._] Will you allow me to record in the_ Spectator_"another dog story"?
318477, 1885._] Have you room for one more dog story, which resembles one lately reported in a French journal?
318478, 1894._] May I be allowed to offer to your readers yet another instance of the faithfulness and sagacity of our friend the dog?
31847ARE DOGS"COLOUR- BLIND"?
31847An old servant was present, and when I had given her directions about an errand on which she was going, I said,"You will take Dido with you?"
31847And why did the chicken prefer the cat''s companionship to that of its fellows?
31847Could any human being have indulged in a more rankling jealousy?
31847Could_ homo sapiens_ have done more?
31847DO DOGS UNDERSTAND OUR LANGUAGE?
31847Did Guy follow him?
31847Did he die before his master, or has some one adopted him?
31847Did not Luther and Wesley believe in the resurrection of animals?
31847Did not this prove a distinct power of consecutive reasoning?
31847Do not these stories adequately show that the dogs reasoned and drew new inferences from a new experience?
31847Does Bunny make no mess in the house?
31847HAVE ANIMALS A FOREKNOWLEDGE OF DEATH?
31847How did an apparently friendless dog know where to go for surgical aid?
31847How did he recognise the Sloane Square Station, for he had had only those two opportunities of glancing out?
31847How does the pointer know where the line runs, and how does Wallace know when he is safely across it?
31847How will she know the one you want, and how can she get it away from the flock by itself?
31847I called out,"Who''s there?"
31847INSTINCT, OR REASON?
31847If we could be secured against their imitation, it would be pleasant to ask our own domestic pets the problems:"What do you think of that, my cat?"
31847Is it stale him?
31847Is there any precedent for such close intimacies between animals so widely separated in kind and habit?
31847Might not a few sagacious canine members be a useful addition to the Royal Academy Hanging Committee?
31847On my return, it jumped to greet me as usual, and I said,''Have you been a good little dog while you have been left alone?''
31847R. P. S.[_ May 3, 1884._] How do we know that in inviting dogs to the use of words Sir John Lubbock is_ developing_ their intelligence?
31847Speaking of cats, can any one say what has become of the late Pope''s black cat, Morello?
31847The Italian dog did not, like a savage, say,"What is the use of copper to me, I can not eat it?"
31847Was the idea of compensation in the cat''s mind?
31847What can have been a dog''s reason for burying frogs alive?
31847What good can they be to him?"
31847What more natural than that it should go to its old home?
31847Wordsworth''s little girl of eight knew less than her dog, if she had one, for, says the poet,"what could she know of death?"
31847You did not steal him, I hope?"
31847[_ July 7, 1888._] The following instance of dog instinct( or reasoning?)
31847[_ June 18, 1892._] If you think this little anecdote of canine friendliness worthy of the_ Spectator_, will you insert it for me?
31847[_ March 3, 1888._] Are animals able to think over and carry out a plan?
31847[_ March 9, 1895._] Does the following dog- story show a sense of humour?
31847would I stale anythin'', yer honner, an''me the poor milk- boy?
38003104+ 6?
38003= 304.?
38003= 304a.?
38003= 713?
38003= 713c?
38003INTRODUCTION HOW TO LEARN A BIRD''S NAME"How can I learn to know the birds?"
38003It may be asked, Why give names to these geographical races?
38003Range-- Lower California( Cape Region only?)
38003Range.--"Alaska Territory; casually?
38003Range.--Arid western United States; east to western portions of Great Plains, north to Montana and eastern Washington(?
38003Range.--Atlantic coasts of tropical and subtropical America; resident( breeding?)
38003Range.--Bahamas and( eastern?)
38003Range.--Coast of Alaska, from Cross Sound to Prince William Sound( to Cook Inlet?
38003Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from northeastern Mexico( but not in Florida?)
38003Range.--Formerly, the coasts and islands of North Atlantic, south on American side to Florida( in winter?
38003Range.--Middle and eastern Texas( except along coast?
38003Range.--North America: breeds from Virginia and the highlands of South Carolina, Kansas, and Oregon, north to Labrador and southern Alaska(?
38003Range.--North America; breeds within Arctic Circle; winters from British Columbia(?)
38003Range.--Northern South America, north through Central America, Mexico and Greater Antilles( except Porto Rico?)
38003Range.--Pacific coast from northern Lower California to Washington( and British Columbia?
38003Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from Oregon north to British Columbia( and eastward in humid regions to Montana?
38003Range.--Pacific coast; breeds in western Oregon( and north?
38003Range.--Rocky Mountain region; breeds from Colorado and northeastern California(?
38003Range.--Southwestern parts of Kansas and western Indian Territory, western( and southern?)
38003Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; breeds In Gulf States,( Lower California?
38003Range.--West Indies; coast of southeastern Texas( and northeastern Mexico?).
38003Range:--North America; breeds in interior from eastern California, Utah, Yellowstone Park, Minnesota(?)
38003Shasta?
38003The questions Why use all these Latin terms?
38003What is the significance of this third name?
38003Why not call Eastern, Western and Southern Robins by one name,_ Planesticus migratorius_, without regard to their climatic variations?
38003Why not call the bird"Robin"and be done with it?
38003With back always(?)
38003_ Notes._ Call, a petulant, complaining_ whang_; song, a broken, rambling recitative"you see it-- you know it-- do you hear me?--do you believe it?"
38003_ Notes._ Call, a scolding_ cack_; song like Red- eye''s but richer, more deliberate,_ see me_;_ I''m here_;_ where are you_?
38003_ Notes._ Calls, varied, often harsh and scolding; song, an emphatic whistle_ who are you, eh_?
38003or_ what''s that you say?_, and a low medley often including imitations of the notes of other birds.
38003|| WHAT BIRD IS THAT?
45063And what is their reward?
45063As this date is about the period of breeding in slightly lower latitudes, may not this writer have been somewhat hasty in expressing his opinion?
45063But would the plan be feasible?
45063Do you perceive the stately, deliberate gait, the sideward glance, the statue- like repose?
45063Does she hesitate?
45063Such being so, what is there to prevent the introduction of them into our yards?
45063The sense of hearing being well- developed, may not this function be called into requisition at such times?
45063Was this arrangement the result of blind chance, or were the rags placed there for some special purpose?
45063What would our worthy friend say should he meet with another just like the one we have described?
45063Whence come these birds?
45063While this is going on, the male bird busies himself with the food- matters?
46825I am quite prepared for the question, however,"But why did you not include such and such a bird?"
46825I say this because I have been asked so often the question, Why do the Storks behave in this curious way?
46825The question is asked and asked, but no very distinct answer comes, why are the birds so tame in Egypt?
46825Was it ever common in ancient Egypt?
46825What is it, then, that the Swallows and Martins do to make their nests adhere?
45086What bird_ was_ that? 45086 But ask of anyone, How is it done? 45086 How are they fixed to the skeleton? 45086 How is it done with such incredible speed and accuracy? 45086 How is it that birds ever came to such a pass? 45086 How should one describe the wing of a bird, as one sees it in flight? 45086 What bird can beat him, or even match him, in the art of doubling back on his tracks? 45086 What were theirnobler traits"?
45086Who could mistake the goldfinch for any one else but himself?
45086Who needs to be told that birds fly?
45086Why did that giant razor- bill known as the great auk become flightless?
45086Why do they not fly all abreast?
45086Why does the woodcock invariably drop after a charge of shot, even though not a pellet has touched it, while a snipe pursues its way?
45086Why is it that ducks and geese commonly fly either in Indian file, or in a roughly V- shaped formation, with the apex of the V forward?
45086Why then, did the penguin suffer the loss of the use of his wings for flight?
43992''Well, did you find them?''
43992-- Apheliscus+--------?
43992-- Bathrodon+--------?
43992-- Hipposyus+--------?
43992-- Mesacodon+--------?
43992-- Sarcolemur+--------?
43992-- Stenacodon+--------?
43992Homocentrus+---------- 1?
43992[? 45.
43992_ Cercopithecus ascanias_(?
43992_ Cynocephalus niger_(?
43992_?
43992_?
43992_?
43992_?
43992_?
43992_?
43992_?
43992|--|--|?
42277What can it mean?
42277What will Ben do?
42277Why, Johnny and Jenny,I said,"why do you do this?
42277A small boy instantly asked,"What do you do to be good to bears?"
42277But is the grizzly bear ferocious?
42277But what killed the cow?
42277Did he intend to assault me, or was he overcome with curiosity because of my unusual actions and trying to discover what they were all about?
42277Did the grizzly know we were unarmed?
42277Did the grizzly know what this shadow- thing was, and was all this just jolly make- believe?
42277Had these bears gone to explore, to see the opportunities of a new region?
42277Let those so minded ask themselves the question, If promiscuous interbreeding were to take place, what would become of the species?
42277Often his expression, his attitude, indicated that he was saying to himself:"What was that?
42277Or had they returned to old territory which they knew, perhaps to obtain some particular kind of food, or just to have an outing?
42277The topography of the country traveled had some bearing on the common route taken, but why were they traveling together?
42277Were they, I wondered, heading for a new home, or was this an annual foraging affair?
42277What are those strange shadows running from, and how can they move without a sound?"
42277What caused it?
42277What is the grizzly''s condition in the spring after months of fasting?
42277What shall I do with you?"
42277What were his intentions?
42277What, too, are his feelings over the increased friendly interest in his species all over the nation?
42277Where did that noise come from?
42277Where does he make his first home?
42277Why is the young grizzly so small?
42277Will the Grizzly be Exterminated?
42277thought Adams,"help me or join his own kind and also attack me?"
40035And who knows but the mechanism of these creatures is set to respond to the swiftly traveling ions which make wireless telegraphy possible?
40035Can there be an instinctive fear of anything that crawls, or is not this fear taught us by unthinking persons?
40035Can you imagine a male and female calling to each other through the long and winding passageways beneath the ground?
40035Can you imagine an insect daring enough to brave the stings of the thousands of workers in a bee''s nest?
40035Did the Pharaohs, I wonder, or their wise men, seeing this, model their mummy cases after those which the butterflies make?
40035Did they go as far as evolution could go when it leaves the male out of account?
40035Does this picture represent, I wonder, one of the nightmare visions which haunt the dreams of baby flies?
40035Have you ever found a butterfly hanging beneath a leaf on a cold summer morning drenched with dew and stiff with cold?
40035Have you ever seen one trying to cross a field in a rain- storm and observed it vainly attempting to navigate the conflicting air currents?
40035How comes it that these forms of life have changed so little in a million years?
40035Is it any wonder then that men should be puzzled to know just what the true grasshopper hears?
40035Is this, I wonder, an insect make- believe, a caterpillar mask, as it were, to frighten away enemies?
40035The puzzle is, where do they come from so suddenly?
40035There is something fascinatingly strange to me in the babies of the winged butterflies, and I wonder why so many people have an aversion for them?
40035These long- horned wood borers do not themselves bore into the wood; how could they with their long antennæ?
40035This is supposed to be its ear, but what it hears and what it does not hear, who can tell?
40035Whence came our aversion to the spotless, winged grasshopper as food and our fondness for the flesh of the wallowing swine?
40035Where are the males, those representatives of society, those voters of our human colonies?
40035Where do they come from and what becomes of them?
40035Where do they roost at night and on rainy days?
40035Why did the ants, with their marvelous instincts, fail to conquer the world?
40035Why have they stood still for thousands of years after they had perfected their social organization?
40362Among a host of animals that present so many differences, how do we determine what shall be considered as belonging to one and the same kind?
40362Are we to suppose that animals which possess a Trochosphere larva are all descended from one common ancestor?
40362But how do we know when a number of animals are all of one kind?
40362But how many, and how nearly related?
40362But if they are skin- structures, how come they in the mouth and throat?
40362But_ why_ do variations occur?
40362Do they entirely resemble these, or is there a difference somewhere?
40362Do we see a family of the poorest class clever, and industrious, and refined?
40362Do we see young people rude and stupid?
40362How does the Starfish know where it is going?
40362How does the_ Murex_ get its living?
40362How is this supplied?
40362How often does the clerk, tied to his desk, fail in health and die?
40362How often does the young mountaineer, less agile than his fellows, come by a violent death?
40362How then do these adaptations take place?
40362How, then, is the animal to be fed?
40362Is each Hydroid of the colony an animal, and the jelly- fish another animal?
40362It will naturally be asked, how does this living filter work?
40362Now comes a puzzling question-- Which part of this family group shall we select and call it an"animal"?
40362Of late years it has occurred to scientific men to apply this principle in the case of human beings, and to ask,"What can the baby teach us?"
40362The name often puzzles the beginner, who asks, bewildered,"But do Bivalves ever have any teeth?"
40362This is when the animal is lying quiet at the bottom of the water, but when it moves about what effect will the presence of the holes produce?
40362What is the kind of degeneracy that overtakes the family of the brain- worker?
40362What is the outcome of all this sorting of the animal kingdom?
40362What name must we give to the units, so curiously connected with one another?
40362When the specimens arrive, what is to be done with them?
40362_ Firstly_, how does he obtain the raw material for his work?
48031HAVE YOU HEARD OF REICHERT''S FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPE?
48031Lumbriconereidæ_ Lumbriconereis erecta_(?)
48031On July 28 two of the genus_ Hermissenda_ and one_ Spurilla_(?)
48031This interesting form was taken from a large mass of the tubes of_ Vermetus_(_ squamigerus?_)( gasteropod).
14701What authority have you?
14701Afraid of a snake?
14701And Mux?
14701And did the squirrels_ remember_ that the nuts were in there, or did they_ smell_ them through the rubber?
14701And the fish- hawks?
14701And what mink would?
14701And where do these millions sleep?
14701And who was he but_ Procyon lotor_--_Procyon_"the washer"?
14701As we went from cage to cage, he said he had read how boa- constrictors eat, and would n''t I show him how these snakes eat?
14701But did he?
14701But how could I feed them?
14701But is it not perfectly legitimate and gentlemanly to shoot such a woodchuck to save one''s peaches?
14701But suppose the tree does die?
14701But the dragon in the swale-- ought I to tolerate him?
14701But the redbirds, bluebirds, rabbits?
14701But what were oysters for if not to be washed?
14701But where will they go to escape the sparrows?
14701But who could cast his pearls, or, to be scientifically and literally correct, his mothers of pearls, before such a swine?
14701Can hate and fear show there?
14701Can he?
14701Can the leopard change his spots or the racoon his habits?
14701Come; do you hear?"
14701Could she be so love- blind as not to see what they were and not eat them?
14701Dat a coon?
14701Did he know a frog?
14701Did they mark the light at Marblehead?
14701Did you ever wait with a gun until a woodchuck came out of his hole?
14701Do n''t you see this awful monster swelling, swelling into this hideous hump?
14701Do the blackbirds nest here for the protection afforded by the presence of the hawks?
14701Do they come for the crumbs which fall from these great people''s table?
14701Do you mean out in Finsbury Moor, Father Chaucer?
14701Even had they been the same size, did I think the old three- colored cat could be fooled?
14701Had I seen or simply imagined something?
14701How high would it rise?
14701If the leaves go and the nights change, what of that?
14701If they made trouble, whose fault was it?
14701If we could happen upon the mud- turtle mad with love, I am sure we should find that he had a voice-- a"soft, sibilant croak,"who knows?
14701Is he songless, sooty, uninteresting, vulgar?
14701Is there even now a spot into which the bumptious, mannerless, ubiquitous little pleb has not pushed himself?
14701It was during the days, I think, of my"probation,"and into his anxious heart had come the thought, Was I"running well"?
14701Might not two of these be spirited away, far away; the two squirrels substituted, and the old cat be none the wiser?
14701Now, why should the sparrows of the roost prefer King''s Chapel Burial Ground to the Old Granary, a stone''s throw up the street?
14701Or did something get stuffed into the top of the boot after the nuts were dropped in?
14701Or is it the excellent opportunity for social life offered by this convenient apartment- house that attracts?
14701Shall he?
14701Was it mischief that led them to gnaw through rather than go down the top?
14701Was the shining dome of the State House a beacon?
14701What did it matter that they had long tails and were squirrels?
14701What suggestion of grace or swiftness about them upon the ground?
14701What was I that dared remain abroad in the marsh after the rising of the moon?
14701What was that?
14701When the day''s hunt is over and he turns back to his bed, why not race it out with his neighbors?
14701Would he sell his birthright?
14701Would it let me through to the mainland if I waited for the flood?
14701Would she be fishing again this morning?
14701Yes, but what if other woodchucks should seek other roof- trees in the peach row?
14701and how guided?
14701little Hyla, are you still out?
14701that dared invade this eery realm, this night- spread, tide- crept, half- sealand where he was king?
14701that she might not know a kitten of hers from some other mother''s-- squirrel?
14701with a snow- storm brewing and St. Nick due here to- morrow night?"
47924Is she really gone?_[ Illustration:"A sidelong, inquiring posture of the head,... Is she gone?"]
47924Is she really gone?_[ Illustration:"A sidelong, inquiring posture of the head,... Is she gone?"]
47924Sweet Science, this large riddle read me plain: How may the death of that dull insect be The life of yon trim Shakspere on the tree?
48196But for what purpose?
48196CHAPTER XX REPTILES-- MONARCHS OF THE MESOZOIC WORLD What is a reptile?
48196How did these huge chelonians get to these islands?
48196Is it to illuminate the surrounding water so as to perceive, or to attract prey, or is it to avoid foes?
48196One judges from his observations that they are mainly the expression of fleeting emotions-- but who can read the emotions of a lizard?
48196Whence came it?
33434And what can he find to eat under ground, I should like to know?
33434And where does this mole live?
33434Be quiet children, will you?
33434How could she? 33434 Now what harm can there possibly be in trying to jump on to this keg, I should like to know?"
33434Well, lad,whispered Harvey,"what dost see now?"
33434You impertinent young scamp,said he,"what do I care about your tusks, or whether they grow or not?
33434And do n''t_ you_ lay up any store of provisions for the winter, then?
33434And how did poor Harvey escape?
33434And now, my dear kind mistress, will you not fulfil your promise, and give me my liberty?
33434And so Mrs. Brush is confined, is she?
33434And what do you live upon, when you_ are_ awake, if it is n''t an unfair question?
33434And what else have you heard about me, Mr. Greateyes?
33434But let me see, what were we talking about?
33434But what are you laughing at, Bill Stacey?
33434But what do you think Gotobed told me just now, as I came up the tree?
33434But what has all this about soldiers to do with the poor prisoners in the oak tree?
33434Did that wild cry of despair reach the ears of the hunters?
33434Do you believe this?
33434Do you suppose that Brush and his family spent the whole of the summer in frolicking and feasting?
33434Do you think everybody is as deaf and as stupid as yourself?
33434Do you think this book has been written for your_ amusement_ only?
33434How can a day be passed more pleasantly?
33434How could I write a tale about animals that could neither speak to each other, nor understand what was spoken to them?
33434How many has she got?
33434However, here the rascals are; and what do you think they have been endeavouring to do ever since they came?
33434I believe you are called Mr. Touchmenot, are you not, Sir?
33434Let me see, where was I?
33434Never saw me before, eh?
33434Now what other tales have you heard about my doings?
33434So you have heard that ridiculous story, have you?
33434So_ that''s_ the name they give me, is it?
33434Tell you about the elephants again?
33434That I_ think_ is an enemy?
33434Well, Master Brush, what do you want with me now?
33434Well, and what harm?
33434Well, but as I was saying, what do you want with me this evening?
33434Well, now you have examined me pretty well, who d''ye think I am, eh?
33434What business has_ he_ got to be flying about now, I wonder?''
33434What d''ye want?
33434What do you jump up into the tree for?
33434What fool told you that?
33434What has all this nonsense to do with the serious conversation you wished to have with me about the children?"
33434Who was this adopted stranger?
33434Will you believe it?
33434a little addition to your family?
33434and"whoever saw fruit growing on a beaten path?"
33434having once seen them how could he possibly mistake their terrible glances?
33434little fellow, is it only you?
33434what d''ye stare at?
33434what d''ye think of that, eh?"
33434what''s the matter now?
33434you are in a terrible rage now, are you?
4768.HOW DOES HE DO IT?
4768.WHAT ARE THEY?
4768.WHAT ARE THEY?
4768How about molds and casts of footprints of ancient animals?
4768How are fossils formed?
4768How do you identify specimens?
4768What Do I Have?
4768What is a mineral?
4768What to take?
4768Why?
42739***** CHAPTER V ORIENTATION AND ROUTE FINDING The question, How do birds find their way?
42739Are the few passing stragglers noted all that go by this route in fair weather?
42739Are we not merely guessing at the real aerial conditions by the movements near the earth at the time of the departure of the birds?
42739Are we yet in a position to say that birds do not make direct use of certain winds?
42739Birds marked at Tyrone have been found so far apart as Cornwall, Harrow and Inverness; what route for the Irish birds can be guessed at?
42739But what does he mean?
42739CHAPTER II CAUSE AND ORIGIN OF MIGRATION The question-- What makes Birds Migrate?
42739Do we really know the force and direction of the winds at a high altitude during these movements?
42739Even this reputed scarcity may be error, for how many reliable watchers are there compared with the immense length of this wave- indented coastline?
42739Favourable to him as an observer or to the goldcrests?
42739How did he observe the obscured sky?
42739How else, is still asked, can weak- winged species cross the sea?
42739Is it possible that some of these collapses of passing birds are due to more than mere physical fatigue?
42739May they not actually have travelled on the"good side"of the cyclonic system, with these very winds carrying them towards Fair Island?
42739What do we find?
42739What is their normal course when no great migration wave or"rush"is observed?
42739What then would happen to a bird leaving Brighton for say the Spanish Peninsula?
42739Will our young July thrush remain in England or will it join one of these streams, and if so which?
44057( VULSELLA?)
44057----?
440571.?_---- The birds composing this natural but intricate group, have hitherto been found only in America.
44057338, f. 8.?
440574,----?
440575. radix?
4405783, f. 1?
4405793._---- Lycimnia?
44057Elongata(?)
44057Family----?
44057Imperialis, Scapha(?)
44057Querula?
44057Quills blackish, with white and grey margins._ Figuier à tête noir de Cayenne?
44057Sub- genus(?)
44057Yet what has resulted?
44057_ Aperture_ effuse, and closed by an operculum?
44057_ Lam._ Sub- genera?
44057_ Nob._ GENERIC(?)
44057_ Nobis._ Type, Voluta musicalis?
44057bullata?
44057p. 143, female?
44057papillaris, elongata(?)
44057rupestris, dubia?
44551(_ Aspilates(?)
44551(_ Cidaria(?)
44551(_ Gonodontis_(?)
44551(_ Larentia(?)
44551(_ Ptychopoda_(?)
44551), and_ Muhlenbeckia_(?).
445511197(?).
445511761.?
44551758.?
44551EUPLOÆ---- sp?
44551Food- plants:_ Aristotelia_,_ Leptospermum ericoides_,_ Rubus_(?
44551Male?
44551_ Amilapis_(?)
44551_ Aspilates_(?)
44551_ Caustoloma_(?)
44551_ Chlenias_(?)
44551_ Epirrhanthis_(?)
44551_ Euchlaena_(?)
44551_ Fidonia(?)
44551_ Fidonia_(?)
44551_ Helastia eupitheciaria_, Gn., E. M. M. v. 95.?
44551_ Hemerophila_(?)
44551_ Larentia(?)
44551_ Selidosema_(?)
44551_ Zanclognatha_(?)
44551_ Zanclognatha_(?)
40459As the nest was perfectly full, how could the dam come at her litter respectively, so as to administer a teat to each?
40459But to proceed: On one occasion, while investigating the nature of some large, transparent, spore- like elliptical cells( fungal?)
40459But what did the next?
40459But what way out of the difficulty was found by the clever insects?
40459Can it be contended that such insects are not able to determine by reasoning powers which is the best way of doing a thing?
40459Can one believe that no kind of reflection is here necessary?''
40459Can_ you_ approve of it?''
40459He adds,''How is it that members of this family have learned that all men, white and black, are fond of honey?
40459How had the goose learned that the force of the rush was needful to give the hook a sufficient toss?
40459Must there not have been something akin to the reasoning faculty in the breast of an animal who could thus for ten days carry on such a struggle?
40459Need I interpret all this for the experienced sportsman?
40459Next she must reason, by''the logic of feelings''--If a hand can do it, why not a paw?
40459Now, in this mode of procedure what is the kind of activities which may be regarded as indicative of mind?
40459The corn, of course, was the attraction, but in what manner did they mark the time?
40459The question, of course, immediately arises, How is it conceivable that the fact, if it is a fact, can be explained?
40459To what cause, then, may we attribute the singularities of the cuckoo?
40459Was Leo suffering from hydrophobia?
40459Was not this a case of reason and good sense_ overpowering_ natural instinct?
40459Was not this something more than instinct?
40459Was she to be a prisoner all day?
40459Was this reason or instinct?
40459What could be the matter with the dog?
40459What did he do?
40459What was Mori to do?
40459Why?
40459Would the animal fly at her throat?
40459[ 135] The same naturalist says of the alligator, These little incidents show the timidity and cowardice(?
40459mystacina_?
40459xix., page 496, says:-- Can we conceive any human being reasoning more correctly than a dog did in the following instance?
20426Can the organisation of vertebrated animals be referred to one uniform type?
20426?
20426?
20426Again, how can a need be"felt"by a nervous fluid?
20426All vertebrate skulls are originally alike; in all( save_ Amphioxus_?)
20426And why, again, should the germs of the same kind of creature always go through the same stages?
20426Are certain bones always developed primarily from cartilage, while certain others as constantly originate in membrane?
20426But how does he reconcile this essentially vitalistic conception with his strictly materialistic philosophy?
20426But if it is itself only a result of the movement of nervous fluids?
20426But is the simplest explanation always the truest-- especially when dealing with living things?
20426But what then is the true relation between the variety of development and the variety of adult structure?
20426Does the ground of organic processes lie in the whole organism or in its elementary parts?
20426Does the skull in its development show any signs of a composition out of several vertebræ?
20426How does it happen that two individuals"degenerate"just in the right direction and to the right stage so as to be capable of breeding together?
20426How else could there be a"natural method"of classification?
20426How explain above all the fact that the centres are the same in number and relative position in all these groups?
20426How is it that one does not find intermediate links between species?
20426Is function the mechanical result of form, or is form merely the manifestation of function or activity?
20426Is it conceivable, says Butler, that the embryo can do all these things without knowing how to do them, and without having done them before?
20426Is it the cell rather than the organism that is the immediate agent of assimilatory processes?
20426Or could you deduce from the existence of frontal horns that the animal ruminates?
20426Such forms there may be, but in finding them the real problem is not even resolved a single stage; for from whence was their repetition derived?
20426The bones developed in relation to these cranial elements can be classified as follows:--(1) the basioccipital, exoccipitals( paroccipitals?
20426The relation of the invertebrate to the vertebrate nervous system being thus fixed, can the nervous system of Invertebrates be reduced to one plan?
20426What general principle can be applied?
20426What is the essence of life-- organisation or activity?
20426What then does morphology owe to Aristotle?
20426Which of the two conceptions is to be adopted in biology?
20426Which of them is right?
20426Why did most morphologists join with him in belittling the organism''s power of self- transformation?
20426Why is this feature retained, and by what means has it been conserved through countless generations?
20426Why then did he not go a step further and admit that the animal could by its own subconscious efforts form entirely new organs?
20426[ 167]_ De formato foetu_,?
20426[ 456] Why, we may ask, were morphologists so unwilling to admit the creative power of life?
20426[ 461]"Les Ancêtres des Marsupiaux étaient- ils arboricoles?"
20426|| r l||||| P|\_________________________/||> m|\/|| i r|_ Amoebæ_?
60718Does it not arise from the difficulty of several females associating together, and finding a male ready to undertake the office of incubation?
60718There was no retreating from this_ impasse_, and the momentous question,"Shall I slay my brother boa?"
60718Why Turkey?
48122(?).
48122(?).
48122(?).
48122(?).
48122(?).
48122(?).
48122(?).
48122_ Mitra lowei_ Dall(?).
48122_ Ovis canadensis nelsoni?_ C. M. Merriam.
48122_ Polynices recluziana_ Desh(?).
48122_ Vitrinella williamsoni_ Dall(?).
56206Are you a"crabby"little person?
56206BY THE LOBSTER You have eaten lobsters, have n''t you?
56206BY THE SALMON Did you ever go fishing?
56206Copyright 1916 WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY BY THE STAR FISH Do you know why I am called a"Star Fish?"
56206Did you ever catch a Salmon?
56206Did you ever see a picture of a"salmon leap?"
56206Have any of you little chaps knives with handles made of mother of pearl?
56206[ Illustration:( whale)] BY THE OYSTER Do you like oysters?
46607As a matter of fact, these reflex waves do not occur; and the question is, why do they not?
46607For what does it prove?
46607How many of us who live for most of the year in the fog and dust of large towns enjoy with the greater zest our summer''s holiday at the seaside?
46607Now, where are these nerve- centres situated?
46607WHAT IS ELECTRICITY?
46607What, then, is the nature of the structural change which has taken place?
46607What, then, should we expect to be the result?
46607Where, then, are these centres?
46607in accordance with our previous hypothesis, to the alternate exhaustion and recovery of the excitable tissues?
2284Ca n''t you feed her? 2284 Dead?"
2284Look at that eye, those wings, and did you ever see such a breast? 2284 Luk at thot, would ye-- but ai n''t he a Little Warhorse?"
2284Oh, Mr. Director, can not you persuade him to sell that beautiful creature?
2284Shure now, an''wo n''t you make it tin, sor?
2284That so?
2284What''s the good? 2284 Where''s that thar onsurpassable, fearless, scaired- o''-nort Tarrier?"
2284Who''s dead-- where are you? 2284 Why not have him expressed to Mendoza?"
2284Wonder if old Dignam is going to enter Minkie this year?
2284A genial glow without from the bath, a genial sense of triumph within, for had she not outwitted three of the big Terrors?
2284Ai n''t that foine?"
2284All?
2284And Duskymane?
2284And now what?
2284And the Dogs-- were they closing the gap of start?
2284And the Little Warhorse-- where was he in all this?
2284As the meeting broke up he whispered to Axel Tanberg:"Is his own name on that paper?"
2284But how did he get there before himself with his speedy Horses?
2284But old Sveggum could neither read nor write: how should he know?
2284Did he hang around in doubt?
2284Did he hesitate?
2284Did he hesitate?
2284Did he turn?
2284Everything had been fair so far, and who can say that what followed was unfair?
2284He was in despair, when his eye lighted on the Chickens about the stable; but what''s the use?
2284Hello!--are ye all dead?
2284Honest and straightforward, what could he do against this far- reaching machination?
2284How could she take a back track that she never saw?
2284How is it done?
2284How much is that?
2284It was the Wolf- hunter who broke silence:"That''s Badlands Billy; ai n''t it a voice?
2284It would find no food; what more natural, he thought, than take the living prey lying there so helpless?
2284King had lived in Goat country, and now in Goat language he exclaimed:"You bet, ai n''t that an old Billy?"
2284Loo?
2284Margat?"
2284May I ask you to stand a little aside?
2284Now which way would he go, up or down the cañon?
2284Now''Royal Dick,''or''Royal Sam,''''ow''s that?
2284Oi say, Sammy, wot''s the noime of that island where ye wuz born?"
2284Peering from his gold- rimmed glasses, first at a lot of papers, next across the roofs of the city, waiting, watching, for what?
2284The Dogs run two or three times a day; why not the Jack?"
2284The arena?
2284Then what?
2284Then,"Who is it?
2284Thor?"
2284What fiend was it tempted a gunner in June to lurk on that hill by the margin?
2284What was faster than that for forty miles?
2284What was it?
2284Where was he?
2284Which seemed likelier to decide the nation''s fate, the earnest thinkers indoors, or the ox- like sleeper without?
2284Which shore?
2284Who can look into the mind of the Wolf?
2284Who can show us his wellspring of motive?
2284Who was to take the canoe?
2284Why not send the Slum Cat to the show now coming on?
2284Why paint the despair of a brave little heart in sight of the home he had craved in vain?
2284Why should a timid creature running for his life thus proclaim to all the world his name instead of trying to hide?
2284Why should he do this?
2284Why should he still cling to a place of endless tribulation?
2284Why tell of the race that followed?
2284Why this unkind change?
2284Wolf?
2284what devil directed his gaze to the twinkling of white that came from the blue to the northward?
2284will Corney never come?"
444229--''Will the Unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
44422Canst thou bind the Unicorn with his band in the furrow?
44422Could the wing of a bird, covered with feathers, do this?
44422How could the fondest mother love 100,000 little ones at once?
44422How have they been produced, and where do they come from?
44422IS THE UNICORN FABULOUS?
44422IS THE UNICORN FABULOUS?
44422If, then, we have a case of chemical boring in these worms, is it not probable that many Molluscs are similarly assisted in their excavations?
44422In reply to"Who dug his grave?"
44422Many of the profiles of quadrupeds have only one leg before and one behind: why, then, should they show two horns?
44422May it not be, asks Mr. Sowerby, that they do not require an entomological bag- net?
44422Might he not have given the name_ Pengwyn_ to the bird?
44422Some Bats are said to feed upon fruits: have they the same delicacy of hearing, feeling,& c., as others?
44422The question being asked,''How can the stylet be procured to satisfy curiosity?''
44422Were the insect prey of these antediluvian Ant- eaters correspondingly gigantic?
44422Who, after reading so many instances, can doubt that fish hear?
44422Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great?
44422and Caligula himself, who was not worth so much as his horse?
44422by absorption?
44422by ciliary currents?
44422could''st thou be guiltless?
44422or by rotatory motions?
44422or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
44422or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?''
17567A royal pair, eh?
17567A thorn- bush-- what matter the precise name?
17567And alone?
17567And the bees?
17567And then?
17567And who should know it if not he, since it was the voice of his wife?
17567And why had it touched up Prickles as if with a live wire?
17567And why?
17567And, anyway, who can blame her?
17567And, by the way, you know the gnu, of course,_ alias_ wildebeest?
17567Another trap?
17567Anyway, the thrush on the lawn was a lady, and-- well, what would you?
17567At least, she had n''t for an hour and a half; but, then, what''s an hour and a half to a cat?
17567Besides, how about the squirrel overhead?
17567But do you think that made any difference?
17567But how was Blackie to know that, little owls being a comparatively new introduction into those parts?
17567But what is size, anyway?
17567But what the fangs and claws was she doing here?
17567By what?
17567Did she, indeed, ever love anything?
17567Did that ratel quit quick?
17567Did yer ever see th''like?"
17567Do n''t you?
17567Do ratels ever quit an unbeaten foe?
17567Got in among the trees-- yes, but dead- beat, and-- to what end?
17567He knew that it would hurt any one to attack him; the cat knew it; all rabbits in their senses knew it; but was that mother- rabbit in her senses?
17567He would have outdistanced you or me easily in no time, but it was not you or I that came, and who could tell how fast that something might travel?
17567His blood was up, and had not all who ever fought him allowed that he was the pluckiest beast on earth?
17567How could one tell?
17567No honey- guide?
17567Now, what is one to make of such a bird?
17567Now, what is one to say of such a cat?
17567Perhaps he saw, too, the gleam of hunger, the wild, cruel gleam that forgets all else, in her eyes; but who am I to say whether he understood it?
17567Pharaoh, old cat, are-- are you in there?"
17567Probably, quite probably, he had met Gulo the Indomitable before, and-- was not that enough?
17567Safe?
17567She certainly did her duty by it; but what was the use of setting up to be a queen, anyway, if she could not do that?
17567Sixteen feet to the ground he bounded, and twenty- two feet out from the bole of the tree he landed, and-- well, what d''you think of that?
17567Something?
17567That was all, but it was enough; was n''t it, boys?
17567The only difficulty was, who was going out first, and who alive, and who dead?
17567The wolf?
17567Then what?
17567Thousands upon thousands of wood- pigeons were asleep above his head, come from Heaven knows where, going to-- who could tell in the end?
17567VIII THE WHERE IS IT?
17567Was he ever anything else than on the war- path if he moved abroad at all?
17567What else did you expect?
17567What meant this unseemly disturbance of_ Phasianus''s_ domain?
17567What''s in a name, anyway?
17567What''s that?
17567What''s that?
17567What''s that?
17567What?
17567What?
17567What?
17567What_ could_ make any difference after_ that_?
17567Where had the old"varmint"gone?
17567Who can tell how much a cat sees, anyway?
17567Who can tell?
17567Who dares check the will of the king''s son?"
17567Who knows?
17567Why should they?
17567You know the size of pythons?
17567You know the ways of a pig?
17567You think it was a battle of patience?
17567from that of a gentleman of the same breed; or, perhaps-- but how do I know?
17567he said very quietly, quickly, gratingly, and tersely; and then, as if expecting an answer, added,"Eh?"
10962But how will it know,asked Beharilal,"by whose hand its mate died?"
10962But,pleaded Beharilal,"is there no escape?--if a man goes away by the railway or by water?"
10962How can a cobra not have a mate?
10962How many times more true is all this in the case of the moral sense? 10962 The fort is a jungle, and where else should a''bag''take refuge but in a jungle?"
10962Then what will it do?
10962Why should I come?
10962And I said,"Little Bird, what do you know of the coconut?"
10962And how many confectioners and shop girls are there whose idea is no broader?
10962And if he did not see these things which were on the surface, what could he know of matters that lie deeper?
10962And what would he do without them?
10962And whence did the profits come?
10962And who can say that there is not a connection between this difference and other developments?
10962And who shall recount a tithe of its other uses?
10962And why do they not turn to meet the sounds that come from different quarters?
10962And why go back so far?
10962But how about scratching?
10962But if you must go by wriggling, then what is the use of legs to knock against stems and stones?
10962But what bearing has all this on the case of birds?
10962But what four- footed thing can see like a bird?
10962Does a lyre bird submit to its tail-- wear it under protest, so to speak?
10962Has it a mate?"
10962How does the_ Shamrock_ sail?
10962How is it done?
10962I have not seen them, and why should I look for them?
10962If real toddy spirit can not be had, what of that?
10962If you ask him where the Seth has gone, he replies,"Who knows?"
10962In a word, why do the people chew betel nut?
10962In short, what is the true inwardness of a tail?
10962Is it any wonder that the coconut has become an emblem of fertility and prosperity and all good luck?
10962Is that not so?"
10962Nagoo replied with pious simplicity,"How can I tell by what means it knows?
10962Neptune first struck his trident on the ground( or was it on the waves?
10962The action was indescribably comical, but what would it have been if her nostrils had been situated among her ribs?
10962The bird can not rebel, but does it not acquiesce?
10962Then what did she intend?
10962To these two occupations the snake- charmer adds that of a medicine man, for who should know the occult potencies of herbs and trees so well as he?
10962Was the whole race in each of these cases subjugated, or exterminated, and that by uncivilised man with his primitive weapons?
10962We have pounded its head properly, so it will not return to you,""But what of its mate?"
10962What choice has a woman as to the style of her hat?
10962What did these men mean by keeping their own counsel and setting an infernal machine for their enemy?
10962What is a nose?
10962What is the bill of a bird and what does it mean?
10962What is the inwardness of the thing?
10962What is the meaning of these repulsive instruments, and how does that strange beast catch sparrows?
10962What place have they filled in the scheme of things?
10962What should we do without them?
10962What was their purpose and mission?
10962What will happen now?"
10962What would all the boats do that traverse the backwater, or lie at anchor in the bay, or line the sandy beach?
10962What would be the gain of having higher susceptibilities and keener perceptions if they only aggravated the triumph of the insulting flea?
10962Wherewith would he bind the rafters of his hut to the beams, or tether the cow, or let down the bucket into the well?
10962Why does he send for me now?"
10962Why have the seals hung back?
10962Why should every schoolboy be taught that Watt was the inventor of the steam engine?
10962Why should it be recorded that Cadmus invented letters?
10962Why should we inquire who first made gunpowder and glass?
10962Why?
10962[ Illustration: WHO CAN CONSIDER THAT NOSE SERIOUSLY?]
10962he cried,"for what demerit of mine has this ill- luck befallen me in my old age?
10962treasures up and the Anglo- Indian hastens to throw away?
31269Canst thou copy in verse one chime Of the wood bird''s peal and cry?
31269Is that the veery?
31269Oh, did you?
31269And how did the terrible"brigand"treat his neighbors?
31269And still more strange,--how can one leap squarely against the same fence, and run right up to the top?
31269And was the trouble with their material or with their situation?
31269But what excuse can there be for bringing the"Darling of the Spring"to this woeful end?
31269But why are they so shy of exhibiting their talent?
31269Can it be that they are just developing their musical abilities?
31269Could it be because I knew their secret?
31269Could the most bloodthirsty shrike desire a more commodious larder?
31269Could these things be true?
31269Could we not?
31269Did I ever assert that the chat is shy?
31269Did both belong to one pair, or was that little dame peeping into her neighbor''s house?
31269Does he consider his brilliant ruby dangerous to the safety of the nest, and so deny himself the pleasure as well as the pain of family life?
31269Does he selfishly desert outright, and return to bachelor ways, when his mate settles herself to her domestic duties?
31269Has he reason to do so?
31269Have we not seen her prototype in the human world?
31269He rested on the bottom of the cage where he was placed, and looked at me with eyes that said,"What are_ you_ going to do with me?"
31269How can one possibly walk several steps down a perpendicular board without falling headlong to the ground?
31269How could he be satisfied with a slow manner, while thrushes and bluebirds took one at a gulp, and were ready for more?
31269I began to be anxious; could it be too cool for song?
31269I recognize the fact that, from his point of view, chipmunks must live, and why should they not have eggs for breakfast?
31269I wonder what sort of a bugaboo he made me out to be?
31269Now how should one interpret that little family interlude?
31269Now, if the truth is what we are seeking, is it not desirable to see for ourselves, or, as Emerson puts it,"leave others''eyes, and bring your own"?
31269One could heartily say with another bird- lover across the sea,"If he has not a soul, who will answer to me for the human soul?"
31269One spoke in a complaining tone, as if it said,"Why do you treat me thus?"
31269Or does the pugnacious little creature herself decline not only his advice and counsel, but even his presence?
31269She did; she was most obliging,--may I venture to say friendly?
31269Should I have to rescue them?
31269Should I some day find the nest broken up or destroyed?
31269Then the question that interested me was, Were there two nests, or one of two stories with babies of different ages?
31269Was he the singer?
31269Was it feathers or fur or a bit of old rag?
31269What else could so quickly answer the mother''s purpose?
31269Where was the"instinct"of the birds whose hopes thus perished?
31269Where, then, could be those youngsters, less than a week old, who four days before were blind and bare of feathers?
31269Where, then, was the larder of this family?
31269Who can describe the song of a bird?
31269Why do they make such a secret of it?
31269Why is it that solitude in the depths of the forest has so mysterious an effect on the imagination?
31269Would a fall kill the delicate birdlings?
31269Would she tell?
31269Would those short, wide, duck- like beaks ever become the needle- shaped probers of flowers?
31269Would wings ever grow on those grub- like bodies?
31269[ Sidenote:_ WHAT DID IT ALL MEAN?_] Occasionally my presence caused a domestic scene not easy to interpret.
31269and so near a house that one could look into it from a window?
31269or too late?
47028Dr. Walter P. Taylor( 1912) describes a peculiar nuptial(?)
47028He was not a market hunter but a gentleman(?)
47028In a few stomachs I also found fine indeterminable remnants of plants( Algae?).
47028In the ecstasy of the mating season a single bird may indulge himself(?)
47028Is not this pragmatic rather than rational philosophy which they possess, the weakness most in favor of the gunner who hunts shore birds with decoys?
47028It also has been observed or taken on the islands of Barbados( September 20 and 22, year?
47028It has a sweet and pleading character and seems to say_ wull yer?
47028It has been detected a few times in Lower California, La Paz( date?
47028The waters of the pool teem with a minute reddish crustacean(?)
47028Two males(?)
47028Who knows where to look for woodcocks?
47028With such excessive shooting all through the fall, winter, and spring, is it to be wondered at that the snipe have decreased in numbers?
47028were evidently pursuing one female(?
11758And the boy?
11758And were you always repaid for your tramp?
11758And where''s Moose Jones now?
11758And why not?
11758And you miss him very much?
11758And your mother does not like him, and thinks it would be best not to keep him now?
11758Any one here?
11758Are you in some trouble about him? 11758 Congress?"
11758Do n''t you think it would be easier for you outside, where there are not so many physical discomforts to be considered?
11758Do you believe,said a low, faltering voice beside him,"that-- that Baldy could lead?
11758Do you think she''ll ever learn,asked George rather hopelessly,"that a sled dog''s got no use for little stunts like that?
11758Do you-- don''t you think you could use Baldy?
11758Have you any one in mind, Ben?
11758Hello, boys, where are you?
11758I expect it''s pretty near''s important t''git the right wheel dogs as''tis a leader, ai n''t it, George? 11758 If there''s enough, Dan, do n''t you think an ice- cream cone''ud be fine; or do you think he''d ruther have some peanuts an''pop- corn?"
11758Irish and Rover?
11758Is n''t he fine?
11758Is n''t he pretty young for that position?
11758Lincoln is to be your model, then? 11758 Looks like a Sweepstakes team through the wrong end of the opry glasses, do n''t it?"
11758Mr. Allan, would you like to buy Baldy?
11758Oh, Ben, what is it, what is the matter?
11758Oh,''Scotty,''ca n''t you do something for poor Wolf?
11758Open those tins of dog feed, will you, Rydeen? 11758 Rex and McMillan in the wheel, like we''ve been usin''''em, I suppose?"
11758So one must work hard for his affection, eh? 11758 So you were interested in what the lawyers had to say?"
11758Some dog, Baldy o''Golconda, ai n''t he, Mart?
11758We''ll show''em some day we was worth while, wo n''t we, Baldy?
11758Well then, leaving out Mego, what dogs shall you use besides Kid, Tom, Dick, Harry, Spot, and McMillan? 11758 Well, at least they ca n''t blame the loss of_ that_ race on you, can they, Jack?
11758What are you waiting for? 11758 What do you say,"she asked Allan,"to a spin over to Mary''s Igloo?
11758What do you want for him, Ben?
11758Why not Jemima? 11758 Why not try Tom?"
11758Will you withdraw the entry?
11758Would n''t that jar you?
11758Would ten dollars be too much?
11758Allan?"
11758Besides, you have had Tom in the lead a few times, have you not?"
11758But I came to- day to ask you if you will let Ben go on a trip to the Hot Springs with us next week?
11758But who is Black Mart?"
11758Could humility go further in making amends?"
11758Do you think that twenty- five dollars would be fair, considering that we are in on the ground floor?"
11758Guilty, or not guilty?"
11758How many were there?"
11758International difficulties, the Fall of a Monarchy?
11758Is that it?"
11758Just water the dogs and see that they''re all right, will you?"
11758May we see him?"
11758Suffrage?
11758The Tariff, Panama Canal news, and graft prosecutions?
11758Then what?"
11758Then, eagerly,"Baldy?"
11758Was the leader you spoke of, Mukluk, stubborn too, in the race you won with him?"
11758What do you s''pose she wants now?"
11758What was he doing in the snow, in the bitter cold, soaked in blood, and with his team beside him?
11758What was the use of a Black Past, if it did not protect one from such unwelcome familiarities?
11758Where did you find him?"
11758Where was Kid?
11758Why do n''t you get a couple of reindeer from the camp just below?
11758Would you believe that they used to frighten naughty children by telling them that Jack was out looking for them?"
11758she demanded;"and why Congress?"
60000It may well be asked, Which of the many species of wild cats mentioned above is the ancestor of our domestic cats?
60000The shepherds(?
60000Turning at last to his favourite, he said:''To whom is it I am going to yield thee up?
60000We wonder why?
60000What could be more diverse than the movements of these creatures, whose structure is nevertheless so much alike?
43417(_ Lutum?_ mud.)
43417(_ Terebra_, an augur?)
43417----?
43417----?
43417122. f. 1124.?
434171620, brevispinosus?
43417AGINA----?
43417AMARULA----?
43417AMPHIBOLA----?
43417AMPULLINA----?
43417Achatina?
43417Auct.?
43417Bithinia, Gray?
43417CYCLOSTOMA?
43417Callia?
43417Cutellus----?
43417East and West Indies, North Africa, South America,& c. AMPULLARINA----?
43417Gray?
43417Gray?
43417Gray?
43417Gray?
43417Gray?
43417Gray?
43417L.?
43417ORTHIS?
43417PENTAMERUS, Sow.?
43417SOLENELLA, Sow.?
43417Schum.?
43417Schum.?
43417Schum.?
43417Sow.?
43417Spisula?
43417Sw. A genus of the family"Ovulinæ,"Sw. composed of cylindrical species of Ovulum?
43417Sw.?
43417TRIGONIA?
43417Thallicera, Sw. Ampullarina?
43417The septa are united in the greater number of instances and pierced by one or more(?)
43417Tropical America only?
43417_ Fam._ Cardiacea?
43417_ Fam._ Purpurifera?
47326A pa- pa, is it?
47326How many eggs are you sitting upon this season, Aunt?
47326One of them same what?
47326Six,meekly said Jenny, who had heard about that brood scores of times,"we thought-- we thought--""Well?"
47326---- If my nose and legs were not so long, and my mouth such a queer shape, I would be handsome, would n''t I?
47326---- Who knows the joy a flower knows When it blows sweetly?
47326Bird''s wing and flower stem-- Break them, who would?
47326Bird''s wing and flower stem-- Make them, who could?
47326Can I beat the drum with my bill, as the four- toed Woodpeckers do?
47326Chicken feathers or straw, what does it matter?"
47326Do you love me?"
47326Fly?
47326How does that argue for humane education?
47326How many eggs are under you?"
47326I wonder if that is the reason we are called Spoonbills?
47326May not the eleven young Bluebirds mean a hundred next season, and is not the possessor of the missing egg guilty of a dozen small lives?"
47326Shame, is n''t it, when there are silk, and ribbon, and flowers in the world?
47326The inanimate shell, however lovely in color, what is it?
47326What more has been said in prose of the song of the English Nightingale?
47326What strength does that fact contain as an argument for humane education?
47326Who knows the joy a bird knows When it goes fleetly?
47326exclaimed Walter,"what are those big balls covered with skin on each side of its head; and when will it look like a bird, mama?"
47326impatiently,"you thought what?"
4203Who would give a hundred and twenty dollars to know about the birds?
4203And are not the rarest and most exquisite songsters wood- birds?
4203And what is a bird without its song?
4203But how is this?
4203But what are those two luminous spots?
4203But why bear to the left at all, if the lake was directly opposite?
4203Cruel?
4203Do such books as mine give a wrong impression of Nature, and lead readers to expect more from a walk or a camp in the woods than they usually get?
4203Do the males separate from the females at this time, and go by themselves?
4203Do we not wait for the stranger to speak?
4203Does he travel by easy stages from bush to bush and from wood to wood?
4203For this I am duly grateful; why say more?
4203Had the old pine- trees food delicate enough for him also?
4203Have you heard the song of the field sparrow?
4203I can not answer with much confidence the poet''s inquiry,--"Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?"
4203Indeed, had I not committed some fatal mistake, and left that trusty servant behind, and had not some wizard of the night stepped into his place?
4203Is a deer''s track like a sheep''s or a goat''s?
4203Need the reader be told what they were?
4203Only a few feathers and a half- musical note or two; why all this ado?
4203Or but a wandering voice?
4203This bird is a warbler, plainly enough, from his habits and manner; but what kind of warbler?
4203Was he a prince in the olden time, and do the regal grace and mien still adhere to him in his transformation?
4203Was he the same lithe, merry- hearted beau then as now?
4203Was there ever any other fish so fastidious as this, requiring such sweet harmony and perfection of the elements for its production and sustenance?
4203We occasionally light upon it, but who, unaided by the movements of the bird, could find it out?
4203Were our eyes and ears so dull, then?
4203When do these creatures travel here?
4203Where did the bobolink disport himself before there were meadows in the North and rice fields in the South?
4203Who has heard the snowbird sing?
4203Who has seen the partridge drum?
4203Who saw them come?
4203Who saw them depart?
4203Why build only where boys can climb?
4203Why need wings be afraid of falling?
4203or has that compact little body force and courage to brave the night and the upper air, and so achieve leagues at one pull?
4203shall I call thee bird?
4203what mystery is here?
61981Is that a British butterfly?
61981Are they like birds''eggs?
61981Could it not evolve a method of securing its eggs so that the young caterpillars might have a fair chance of survival when ushered into the world?
61981He could fly over it?
61981I wonder what his name might have been had he been common north of the Tweed, and not known in the South?
61981It''s clever, though, is n''t it?
61981The Small Tortoiseshell is a hibernating species, but why does it not deposit its eggs in the autumn, and go the way of all flesh and butterflies?
61981What would be the fate of these eggs if laid in the autumn?
61981Who can tell?
21266A family of birds may also be described, as if they were persons,--and are they not?
21266But if our supposition were realized, if every fin and gill were to disappear from the waters of the globe, what would be the result?
21266Can you tell why?
21266Do birds travel at night, during their migrations?
21266Do robins raise more than one brood in a season?
21266Does any woman imagine these withered corpses( cured with arsenic), which she loves to carry about, are beautiful?
21266Does he ever carry material, or does he simply act as escort?
21266Does he ever protect his mate from other birds?
21266Does it consist of many or only a few notes?
21266Does it sing?
21266Does it walk, hop, or run upon the ground?
21266For example-- Is it courageous?
21266Hast thou named all the birds, without a gun?
21266Have birds individuality?
21266Have essays written upon the following subjects:-- Are there birds that do not sing?
21266How could it be otherwise?
21266How did they characterize him?
21266How long could the ravages of insects be stayed were the birds gone?
21266How many toes upon each foot, and which way do they point?
21266If so, do they use the same nest twice?
21266If they raise two broods, what becomes of the first, while the mother is sitting upon the eggs for the second?
21266Is any country too cold, or any too warm, for birds?
21266Is it cheery, like the robin''s, or tuneful, like the thrush''s, or rollicking and rapturous, like the bobolink''s, or a Romanza, like the catbird''s?
21266Is it inclined to fight?
21266Is it not worth while to do something to protect the birds and prevent their destruction before it is too late?
21266Is it quarrelsome?
21266Is it selfish?
21266Is its flight even and steady, or bounding?
21266Is its tail square, or notched?
21266Is the blue jay wicked?
21266Is the woodpecker''s drumming, and apparent listening with the side of his head turned to the tree, all for fun, and nothing for reward?
21266Is woman cruel or only thoughtless?
21266Loved the wood- rose and left it on its stalk?
21266Loved the wood- rose, and left it on its stalk?
21266Of its back?
21266Of its breast?
21266Of its throat?
21266Of its wings?
21266Of the underparts of its body?
21266Ought the"government to own"the birds?
21266Place the following questions upon the blackboard:-- THE ENGLISH SPARROW How long is this bird from the tip of its beak to the end of its tail?
21266Suppose we were asked which is of more use to man, the fishes of our waters or the birds of our forests and fields?
21266Sweet science, this large riddle read me plain:-- How may the death of that dull insect be The life of yon trim Shakespeare on the tree?
21266The smallest?
21266What birds have you heard sing at night?
21266What birds walk?
21266What can afford a stronger tendency to describe than the attempt to report observations that have been made with interest, even with delight?
21266What does it cost, this garniture of death?
21266What does it eat?
21266What does the other bird do?
21266What happens afterwards?
21266What has been the effect of the extensive killing of them for ornament, and the equally cruel practice of securing their young to be kept in cages?
21266What is my name?
21266What is the attitude of other birds to the owl?
21266What is the color of its head?
21266What is the color of its legs and feet?
21266What is the difference in appearance between the male and female?
21266What is the largest bird of North America?
21266What is the length, shape, and color of its bill?
21266What laws has your state made about birds?
21266What ones are masons or plasterers?
21266What ones are tailors, in the construction of their nests?
21266What sounds does the bird make?
21266What states have established a Bird Day by law?
21266What would Emerson have thought when he wrote that matchless bit-- Hast thou named all the birds, without a gun?
21266When is the greater number of new birds seen, in the morning or in the afternoon?
21266Which bird takes the lead in building?
21266Why are these and other brightly colored birds so shy?
21266Why should not a man love a bird?
21266Will you please make another one that no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one shall kill us to get them?
21266_ Its common name._--Why given?
21266_ Nest._--Where placed, how made?
21266_ The kinds of nests._--What birds are weavers?
21266_ This bird in literature._--What writers have described, what poets have immortalized him?
21266_ Time of arrival and departure.__ Character._--Is it trustful, or shy and retiring?
47649A lesson?
47649Am I never to be rid of that stupid thing?
47649How did it happen?
47649I brought the first sticks, my dear,he answered mildly,"and did n''t I do all the house hunting?
47649Of course, of course,assented her mate,"whoever heard of a Wren raising a second brood in the same nest?
47649What is so rare as a day in June? 47649 You naughty boy,"exclaimed Mrs. Wren, turning to the crest- fallen Pierre,"did I not tell you to take care of your brothers and little sister?
47649---- Another Woodpecker?
47649And is May much better?
47649And why should they not be?
47649But, still, what are perfect days?
47649Can I drum?
47649Can you repeat it?"
47649Do you ask what his name is?
47649Have you observed the Robin in the early spring?
47649His wife is a beauty, he''s fond of her, too; He calls her his"Judy;"I like it, do n''t you?
47649How many days,"so calm, so sweet, so bright, the bridal of the earth and sky,"come in May?
47649Is the love of a bonnet supreme over all, In a lady so faultlessly fair?
47649Mr. E. P. Jaques, asks, in_ Field and Stream_,"What has become of our Waterfowl?"
47649The Father takes heed when the Sparrows fall, He hears when the starving nestlings call-- Can a tender woman_ not care_?
47649he flung across to the blushing Woodpecker,''stay away the next time, if you do n''t fancy being converted into a beast of burden?''"
7404''Is the master at home?'' 7404 _ Not see Sir Walter Scott_?"
7404''Pray, sir,''said the man of golden consequence,''is this a letter of business, or is it a mere letter of introduction?''
74041797(?)
7404And why should the would- be murderers use a knife when they had guns?
7404Did remote prairie cabins in those days have grindstones and carving knives?
7404Had not his wondrous pen penetrated my soul with the consciousness that here was a genius from God''s hand?
7404He retorted,''What the devil did I know about birds?''
7404With her was I not always rich?"
25973How could you be led astray by so familiar a song?
25973A recent writer, in describing"A Buzzards''Banquet,"asks a couple of pregnant questions:"Is there anything ugly out of doors?
25973And what did they say?
25973And who or what are Brewer''s blackbirds?
25973And would the feathered visitor feel a constriction in his chest and be compelled to gasp for breath, as the human tourists invariably do?
25973And would you believe it?
25973Are such ways usual among birds, or did we chance to see and hear an unusual thing?"
25973But poor Turpentine, what of him?
25973But what could this minstrel be?
25973But what was the bird which was singing so blithely a short distance up the slope?
25973But what was the cause of this particular bird''s intense solicitude?
25973But what was the meaning of a sharp, insect- like buzzing that fell at intervals on my ear?
25973But where was that important personage, the little husband?
25973But where were their nests?
25973But would you believe it?
25973Can the ardent, sympathetic lover of nature ever find her unlovely?"
25973Could I ever drag myself up to the next bend in the track?
25973Could a better hook be contrived for enabling the bird to clamber up the trunks and branches of trees?
25973Did that bandit intend to rob her of both her husband and her children?
25973Did the pipits accompany you to the summit of the peak?
25973Do those on the western side of the mountains travel over the towering summits from the eastern plains?
25973Does the avi- fauna of the Rocky Mountain district differ widely from that of the Eastern States?
25973Does the bird- lover ask what species dwell on a treeless mesa like this?
25973Does the lining of the juvenile green- tail''s mouth change from red to yellow as he advances in age?
25973Had I mistaken some other bird for the mountain song- sparrow?
25973Has mention been made of a few house- finches that were seen in Georgetown?
25973Have other bird students observed it?
25973Have you ever ridden a burro?
25973How do they reach this immured Eden at the time of the spring migration?
25973Must a peak be over fourteen thousand feet above sea- level to meet their physiological wants in the summery season?
25973One of the signal- station men asked a friend who had just come up from the plain,"Is there anything green down below?
25973Or do they come up from their southern winter homes by way of the valleys and plains west of the range?
25973Or was the Buena Vista bird the common song- sparrow which had gone entirely beyond its Colorado range?
25973Somewhere I had heard such minstrelsy-- but where?
25973Suppose an eastern blue jay should be carried to the top of Pike''s Peak, or Gray''s, and then set free, how would he fare?
25973That little feathered Sphinx-- what could he have been?
25973Then what does he do?
25973Was it a bird, or only one of those playful little chipmunks that abound in the Rockies?
25973Was it fancy or was it really true?
25973What birds select such steep places for a habitat?
25973What could the gay little minstrel be?
25973What could this wonderful haunter of the sky be?
25973What do the birds find to eat in these treeless and shrubless altitudes?
25973What is the tune they whistle?
25973What regimen did they adopt in that exigency?
25973What was the bird?
25973What was there to keep him in a birdless place like this?
25973What was this haunting song that rose from a thick copse fringing one of the babbling mountain brooks?
25973What was this little square- shouldered bird that kept uttering a shrill scream, which he seemed to mistake for a song?
25973What was this wonderful bird?
25973What were these tenants of the dry and piney mountain side?
25973Where did the robins build their nests?
25973Who can deny the evidence of design in nature?
25973Who can tell?
25973Who was the little waif that had chosen this sky- invading summit for its summer habitat?
25973Whose song was this ringing from one of the larger trees a little farther down the glade?
25973Why did not this birdlet remain within the bounds set by the scientific guild?
25973Why do not the magpie and the long- crested jay come east?
25973Why does the hardy and almost ubiquitous blue jay studiously avoid the western plains and mountains?
25973Why is the yellow- shafted flicker of the East replaced in the West by the red- shafted flicker?
25973Why should a bird student tarry here?
25973Why the Rocky Mountain region changes the lining of the flicker''s wings from gold to crimson-- who can tell?
25973Would he give two way- worn travellers a place to sleep beneath his roof?
25973Would the muscles and tendons of his wings have sufficient strength to bear him up in the rarefied atmosphere?
25973or was that only imagination too?
25973what were these active little birds, hopping about on the street and sipping from the pool by the village well?
49206And I,said Lucy,"have much wished to ask whether the_ snake- stone_ ever was a shell?
49206And are you quite sure that they are without a shell? 49206 Are you not students in those useful languages?
49206Have not slugs the characteristics of the_ Mollusca_ class?
49206How can that genus be mixed with the_ Conchifera_?
49206Is not this genus reduced by other authors?'' 49206 Look carefully at those three shells: do you perceive much resemblance between them?
49206Now, Charles,said Mr. Elliot,"do you clearly comprehend the verse that you have just repeated?"
49206Oh, who gave you those nice shells?
49206So the_ Pinna_ is a bivalve; but what has_ Venus_ to do with the matter?
49206Tell me what genera remain to be noticed among the univalves of Linnæus?
49206What can you want so many little shells for?
49206Why do you both look so serious?
49206*****"The family_ Macrostoma_ contains,_ Sigaretus__ Helix_?
49206Charles is silent; what says Lucy?"
49206I hope your purchase did not cost much, for they are not rare shells?"
49206I know the difference between a cowry and a cone; but I am not yet acquainted with a multivalve shell-- will you show me one?"
49206Lucy, do you know a univalve shell?"
49206asked Lucy,"and how do you know the names?"
37787And that''s what you died of? 37787 And when they were out of the drey did you teach them to run about in the tree, and jump from one branch to another, and pass from tree to tree?"
37787Are you speaking seriously? 37787 Do you see a man sitting by the fire looking at us?
37787There''s no one else-- what am I to do? 37787 What asketh man to have?"
37787What do you mean, woodpecker? 37787 When was that, squirrel?"
37787Where was that, squirrel?
37787Who are you and what are you doing there?
37787Why did they put us here?
37787Why do you hate me, squirrel?
37787Yes, are they not beautiful?
37787''And how are you?
37787Answer me, why did they put us here?
37787Are the hundred years over so soon?"
37787But my critic dropped by chance into something better, when he went on to ask,"Why should n''t the heaven''s blue make us love flowers?
37787But who that has any knowledge of what goes on in the collecting world does not know that the guarded birds would be the first to vanish?
37787Could such a thing happen?"
37787Did it hurt you, squirrel?"
37787Did it hurt you?"
37787Do n''t you see it coming, squirrel?
37787Ha, ha, ha-- who''s the yaffler now?
37787Have you got it up?
37787He then asks:"What does blue suggest to a sailor?
37787How does it taste?"
37787How was I to disclose all this to him?
37787Is n''t this a fine day?
37787Say, was thy little mate unkind, And heard thee as the passing wind?
37787That''s new, is n''t it?
37787The question arises: Does he continue all his life long repeating this egregious blunder?
37787The question is sometimes asked, What is the charm which you find, or say you find, in nature?
37787Then he added:"A dozen, did I say?
37787Well, when I was bidding good- bye to my friends at home I said,"Do n''t you envy me?
37787What did he mean?
37787What shall this dream be?
37787What shall we do, what shall we do?
37787What, I asked myself, could be the reason of their sudden alarm, when my previous visits to the wood had not excited them in the least?
37787What, then, is the charm of the wood wren''s song?
37787When will you come home, wild geese, in your thousand strong?...
37787Where did you find red agarics?
37787Who that ever listened to Carlotta Patti does not remember sounds like these from her lips?
37787Why do n''t you answer me?
37787Why do you hate me?"
37787Why, then, I asked, if they were so destructive, did not his master go out and shoot them at once?
37787Will this committee recommend the one and only way to put a stop to the continuous destruction of our rarer birds?
37787squirrel, what are you doing there?
40869How big is this ere brown bear, Squire?
40869How do you know it is a grizzly?
40869How much reward can I offer?
40869Is that so?
40869Where is it, Ed?
40869Why do n''t you come on, I say, and help me catch him?
40869Why do n''t you eat him?
40869Would you undertake to get a genuine grizzly in this State?
40869*****"Are there any true grizzly bears in California?"
40869And do I know him?
40869And what became of Sil Reese?
40869And what became of the big black twin babies?
40869And what became of the boy?
40869And where is he now?
40869But how does a bear die?
40869Can you not see how it is?
40869Could he?
40869Do you know why a beast, a bear of all beasts, is so very much afraid of fire?
40869Dog?
40869He sat down on the grass, and, wearily wiping his forehead, he said to Monnehan,"Mr. Monnehan, how big was the bear that you saw?"
40869How will you have him-- dead or alive?"
40869Is he the representative of another genus?
40869Lie down and be eaten up while you lie there and kick up your heels and enjoy yourself?
40869Now, do you think you could find them?"
40869Or is he the Sloth Bear,_ Prochilous_( or_ Melursus_)_ labiatus_?
40869Pretty women are to be preferred; but pretty men?
40869The boy?
40869Were they running away from a thunder- storm?
40869What did it all mean?
40869What had become of this strange little army of silent brown boys?
40869What made these ugly rows of scars on my left hand?
40869What next?
40869When he had completed his investigation and stood once more before Monarch''s cage, he was asked:"Well, what is he?"
40869Where are they?"
40869Where had they gone and what did all this silent mystery mean?
40869Why ca n''t they live up in the chaparral, as they did before we came here to plant trees and try to make the world beautiful?
40869Why do n''t you come, I say, and help me catch him?"
40869Why do n''t you come?
40869Why not have the little black fellows fight a duel also?
40869Why not set the dog on him?
40869Why, if they''re so blasted dangerous, how did your missionaries ever manage to drive them up here from Mexico, anyhow?"
40869Will he?
40869Would he come any farther?
40869Would he?
40869Would n''t that be a fix?"
40869You like?"
40869You want to know what the boy is doing?
45873Do you see the Cranes of Ibycus?
45873Accustomed to hear little more than the words,''I am ill,''when asked,''How are you, Parrot-- how are you?''
45873Are not these little republics models of peace and concord?
45873But what is this object which catches his sight?
45873Can we impose a like distribution on birds?
45873Does this disturb him?
45873For example, where is the link which unites the Crow to the Swallow or to the Humming- birds?
45873How can the Quail, for instance, with its short wing and plump body, traverse the Mediterranean twice in the year?
45873Is it, then, to be wondered at that these birds have been eagerly sought since their introduction into Europe?
45873It continually repeated the cries which the poor child uttered when he saw his mother rush at him with the rod in her hand--''What for?
45873It jumps on the table;--can it be the same?
45873No doubt it is edible; but where is the consumer of such to be found?
45873We have heard the same of a small Boa- like Serpent(_ Chilabothrus?_) in the West Indies, which is said to prey upon the formidable_ Crotalidæ_.
45873What say the great philosophers to it, who refuse this faculty to animals?
45873What, indeed, can surpass the brilliancy of the King- fisher as it suddenly darts along some murmuring brook, tracing a thread of azure and emerald?
45873What, it will be asked, is there so characteristic about it?
45873When will man make up his mind to understand his true interests?
45873Who besieges him with its clamours?
45873Who discovers the Owl during the day?
45873Who pursues him with unintermitting blows of his bill?
45873Who rouses the whole tribe of small birds against the nocturnal tyrant?
45873and does not man find in them salutary examples of disinterestedness and affection?
45873what for?''
41357Would the fusion of epiblast and mesoblast also receive its explanation on this hypothesis? 41357 ( 2) Is any part of it present in the ovum at the commencement of segmentation? 41357 ( 2) Part of the intermuscular connective tissue(?). 41357 ( 2) What meaning has it in the development of the ovum or the embryo? 41357 ( 2) where is it situated in relation to the embryo? 41357 7,_ r.st_? 41357 8,_ r.st_?). 41357 : How do these nuclei originate? 41357 And who can say whither he might not have reached had he lived, and his bright young life ripened as years went on? 41357 Are the hæmal arches, the ventral parts of which are thus formed by the coalescence of the ribs, homologous with the hæmal arches in Elasmobranchii? 41357 Are the roots in question to be regarded as proper roots of the vagus, or as ventral roots of spinal nerves whose dorsal roots have been lost? 41357 Are they formed by the division of the pre- existing nuclei, or by an independent formation? 41357 Close to the hindermost vas efferens is seen a body which resembles a rudimentary segmental tube(_ rst?_). 41357 Connected with the foremost one is seen a body which looks like the remnant of a segmental tube and its opening(_ rst?_). 41357 Does this larva retain the characters of an ancestral type of the Spongida, and if so what does its form mean? 41357 Does this layer come from an ingrowth from the thickened edge of the blastoderm, or does it arise from the formation of new cells in the yolk? 41357 Each of them is formed of( 1) a large, often angular, nucleus, filled with deeply staining bodies( nucleoli? 41357 How comes it then to be formed of lower layer cells in Elasmobranchii? 41357 How has it come about that there are nerves passing from the central nervous system to all parts of the skin, and also to the muscles? 41357 In Teleostei and Ganoidei(?) 41357 Is it credible that the mouth and anus have become changed, the one for the other? 41357 Is it the remains of the first formed vitelline membrane? 41357 It had ringed antennæ, seventeen(?) 41357 On each side of it are a pair of short papillæ( aborted feet?).
41357The first- named species(_ Mustelus_ sp.?)
41357The points which require to be cleared up are,( 1) what is the nature of the primitive cumulus?
41357The posterior opening formed from the blastopore is elongated, being dilated in front and continued back as a narrow slit(?)
41357The question which first presents itself is, how far does this distinction hold good for other Fishes?
41357The question which we propose to ourselves is the following:--What are the homologies of the parts of the Avian urinogenital system above enumerated?
41357There is_ one_ outgrowth from the alimentary tract in Synapta;_ two_ in Echinoids, Asteroids and Ophiura;_ three_ in Comatula, and four(?)
41357They have around them a dark contour line, which I can only interpret as the commencement of the membrane( zona radiata?
41357This opacity is due in each case to a proliferation of cells of the hypoblast, and, perhaps, of the epiblast(?).
41357Two questions about it obviously present themselves for solution:( 1) What are the conditions of its occurrence with reference to impregnation?
41357What then becomes of the originally continuous outgrowth?
41357What were the steps by which this remarkable process took place?
41357What, then, is the explanation of the widespread derivation of the mesoblast, including the muscular system of the body, from the hypoblast?
41357Whence does this layer arise?
41357or is the protoplasm present_ throughout_, being simply_ more concentrated_ at the germinal pole than elsewhere?
41357|1st head cavity|||?
45596Is it a rare insect, then?
45596Why?
45596Are all these three used to conduct the juice of flowers into the butterfly''s body?
45596Are ants simply friends of the plant- lice, as thought the ancients?
45596But how can it come out of the silky prison which it has itself built?
45596But how can they drag out the dead body, which is often very heavy?
45596But how do the ants manage to get the plant- lice to allow themselves to be, as we may say, milked?
45596But how, one will ask, was it possible in a large public room to see this wonderful sight?
45596But what could they want of the plant- lice?
45596But with all this, where is the organ of song?
45596How could we provide our horses and oxen with provender, if they required each day their own weight of hay and grass?
45596How do these insects manage to make themselves understood in such various ways, asking for help, giving advice, giving invitations?
45596How does it manage to bore through the often very solid walls of this second prison, so as to regain its liberty?
45596How is it that small bumps arise on the part that is stung?
45596How is it then that so small a wound does not heal at once?
45596Is a man not as much a domestic animal as a dog?
45596Is not the Empress Si- ling- chi a mythical person?
45596Is there not here, in the first place, a true and excellent reasoning, then an act, an operation, a work, executed as the result of this reasoning?
45596Man is proud of his works; but what are they, after all, in comparison with those of the ant, taking the relative heights into consideration?
45596Of what use then can stemmata be to insects also provided with compound eyes?
45596Of what use to it is this dirty and grotesque fancy dress?
45596What becomes of its disguise, and how does it manage to walk?
45596What do they do?
45596What is the use of the antennæ, resembling as they do, feathers, saws, clubs,& c.?
45596What parts produce the sound?
45596Who does not admire the extraordinary splendour, the vivacity, the prodigious variety of colours of these brilliant inhabitants of the air?
45596Who would suppose that one of the causes which render the centre of Africa difficult to be explored is a fly not larger than the house- fly?
45596Will it enlarge its old coat, or will it make itself a new one?
45596a sort of Chinese Ceres, to whom, under the title of goddess of the silkworm, they then raised altars?
45596or have their visits some selfish object?
37735What musician would n''t be conscious of his own powers,he seems to challenge us,"if he possessed such a gift?"
37735Who is my neighbor?
37735You see it-- you know it-- do you hear me? 37735 --_Edith M. Thomas._ Could a dozen lines well contain a fuller description or more apt characterization of a bird than theseTo a Nuthatch"?
37735And what does he say, little girl, little boy?
37735But why should the poets be so silent?
37735Could there be a more tragic ending to the glorious note of the gay songster of the north?
37735Did you ever receive a gift of brook- trout by express?
37735Do you believe it?"
37735Do you know the edelweiss of our own matchless arbutus after you have merely analyzed and classified them?
37735Does any bird excel the robin in the great variety of his vocal expressions?
37735From what does the hornet make its paper?
37735How could his little brown lady- love fail to be impressed with a suitor so gayly dressed, so tender and solicitous, so deliciously sweet- voiced?
37735How do the tiny parents contrive to cover so many eggs and to feed such a nestful of fledglings?
37735How do they pay their way in the rigid economy of nature?
37735How do they survive?
37735How does it happen that this little tropical jewel alone flashes about our Northern gardens?
37735How does the bulb of the common fawn- lily[1] get deeper and deeper into the ground each year?
37735How does the chimney- swallow get the twigs it builds its nest with?
37735If one could number all the trees of the forest and all the leaves upon the trees, what would it profit him?
37735Is it one of the unwritten laws of birds that the smaller their bodies the greater their activity?
37735Love, contentment, anxiety, exultation, rage-- what other bird can throw such multifarious meaning into its tone?
37735Need description go further?
37735Need more be said for him?
37735No animal cares to touch this plant if it can be avoided; but have the birds themselves no sense of smell?
37735Of what birds is this true?
37735Or but a wandering voice?"
37735So active, so friendly and cheering, what would the long northern winters be like without this lovable little neighbor?
37735The scientific value which attaches to your knowledge of the names of their parts or of their families-- what is that?
37735What do they do?
37735What will the farm- boy date from?
37735Who is honestly able to give the shrikes a better character than Dr. Coues, just quoted?
37735Why are mud turtles so wild?
37735Why do nearly all our trees have a twist to the right or the left-- hard woods one way, and soft woods the other?
37735Why do oaks or chestnuts so often spring up where a pine or hemlock forest has been cleared away?
37735Why does lightning so commonly strike a hemlock tree or a pine or an oak, and rarely or never a beech?
37735Why does the bolt sometimes scatter the tree about, and at others only plow a channel down its trunk?
37735Why does the bumblebee complain so loudly when working upon certain flowers?
37735Why does the honey- bee lose the sting when it stings a person, while the wasp, the hornet, and the bumblebee do not?
37735Why does the wild ginger hide its blossom when nearly all other plants flaunt theirs?
37735Why has it not called forth such verse as the English poets have lavished upon the nightingale?
37735Why is our common yellow birch more often than any other tree planted upon a rock?
37735Why is the excrement of the young of some birds carried away by the parents, while with others it is voided from the nest?
37735Will she never learn that after her clear- white eggs are laid and her brood raised he will relapse into the savage and forget all his tender wiles?
37735shall I call thee bird?
58660Do you not admit that"instinct"will no longer answer as a name for intelligence in what you call the"brute"animals?
58660Have they"no end in view,"and is this done"without deliberation?"
58660Have you ever seen a healthy animal oppress a sickly one?
58660How often do you find these traits in the human being?
58660Is it not a daily, nay, hourly occurrence?
58660Is there anything more wonderful in man''s talking than in a bird singing, save that speech is a higher order of utterance?
58660Now, if these definitions are correct, and you choose to accept them as being so, what becomes of the"language"of the deaf and dumb?
58660Tell me how frequently you have known a man of influence, power, riches or strength, to oppress and take advantage of a feebler or poorer one?
58660What shall that quality of mind be called?
58660Why should she tread so carefully?
47280A- a- what?
47280Do you think so?
47280Have you walked beneath the blossoms in the spring? 47280 How is this murderous vanity of women to be overcome?"
47280O little bird of restless wing, Why dost thou sing so sweet and loud? 47280 The precious little thing?"
47280Well, we are watching you,they chorused, as he spread his wings and flapped them a number of times,"why do n''t you go?"
47280What story?
47280---- FEATHERS OR FLOWERS?
47280A mean trick, was n''t it?
47280And what does he bring home?
47280Beneath the apple blossoms in the spring?
47280Has it not, Mama?"
47280Have I heard what this tiny passenger has to say while it flits thus from tree to tree?
47280In the spring?
47280Is not the coming of the Fox- colored Sparrow something more earnest and significant than I have dreamed of?
47280Is that a name, too?
47280It does sound odd to hear a bird of my size talk about flying, does n''t it?
47280It is a new bird-- or merely one forgotten?
47280It may be questioned, what is the new method, and what its value?
47280It''s sorra crathers we''d both be without''em, wudn''t we, birdie?
47280Lucky, is n''t it?
47280My legs?
47280My, what a lovely little creature it is?"
47280The Song Sparrow and the transient Fox- colored Sparrow, have they brought me no message this year?
47280When the pink cascades are falling, And the silver brooklets bawling, And the Warbler bird soft calling, In the spring?"
47280Why dost thou sing so strong and proud?
47280Why dost thou sing?"
47280Would n''t you?
46614The group may be defined as Monorrhines with a continuous(?) 46614 The question now is this: Are the fishes of this water system the same throughout its extent?
46614What was this primitive function? 46614 (? A pair of spines occurs in the pectoral region.) 46614 = Gill, 1896.=--The group to which_ Palæospondylus_ belongs may be defined as Monorrhines with a continuous(?)
46614And if this were its primary purpose, how shall we explain its remarkable variability?
46614Are these formed, like the unpaired fins, from the breaking up of a continuous fold of skin, in accordance with the view of Balfour and others?
46614Do you either know or believe this to be so, and, if possible, where are the eggs conceived and how do they get into the mouth?''
46614Family_ Holoptychiidæ?__ b._ Dermal plate of_ Asteraspis desideratus_ Walcott.
46614In the head- shield the postero- lateral angles formed by the marginal plate(_ Phlyctænaspis?_), the occipital border concave.
46614Is that which remains sufficient to demand the hypothesis of a former shore- line connection?
46614It is a large number undoubtedly, but what does it come to?
46614Like the shark there then exists no unpaired fin; the gill- slits( five?)
46614Or again, as supposed by Kerr, is it a modification of the hard axis of an external gill?
46614Or do they differ in different stations along its course?
46614Or is the primitive limb, as supposed by Gegenbaur, a modification of the bony gill- arch?
46614What have these waters in common that the coral reefs, the lava crags, and tide- pools of the tropics have not?
46614What is the origin of paired limbs?
46614Yet if the bladder is necessary to any fish as an aid in swimming, why not to all?
46614cranium, a median nasal(?)
46614cranium, a median nasal(?)
39979A bad night this, strangers; how came you to be along the fence? 39979 And where is it?"
39979And why to- morrow, Mr. Audubon? 39979 And why,"answered I,"have you left your quarters, where certainly you must have fared better than in these unwholesome swamps?"
39979Are you hurt, sir?
39979But how are we to get them out?
39979How much?
39979How, sir?
39979My wife and I teach them all that is_ useful_ for them to know, and is not that enough? 39979 No?"
39979Pray, friend, what have you killed?
39979There,said he,"did not I tell you so; is it not rare sport?"
39979Toby, come back; do n''t you know the stranger is not up to the woods? 39979 What now?"
39979What now?
39979All this raised my curiosity to such a height that I accosted him with,"Pray, sir, will you allow me to examine the birds you have in that cage?"
39979But what is description compared with the reality?
39979Can he swim well?
39979Can you see the poor toad kicking and flouncing in the water?
39979Do you paint, sir?"
39979Have they told you that this boat was used, after the tedious voyage was ended, as the first dwelling of these new settlers?
39979I nodded, and he continued,"What the devil do you know about birds, sir?"
39979If our Congress will not allow our traders to sell whiskey or rum to the Indians, why should not the British follow the same rule?
39979Now ought not this subject to be brought before the press in our country and forwarded to England?
39979Now who will tell me that no animal can compete with this Fox in speed, when Harris, mounted on an Indian horse, overtook it in a few minutes?
39979Shall I ever have the pleasure of seeing that good, that generous man again?
39979Shall I speak to him, and ask him the result of this first essay?
39979Shall I tell you that I have seen masses of these logs heaped above each other to the number of five thousand?
39979The Indians, who were quite numerous, clustered about him, and asked him what the bird came to him for?
39979The loss proved too much for him; he called his wife, and, after telling her what a faithful husband he had been, said to her,"Why should we live?
39979Thirty, or thirty thousand?
39979What do you think, reader, as to the number of Cod secured in this manner in a single haul?
39979What sort of bed can you fix for them?"
39979What''s that?
39979Where now are the bulls which erst scraped its earth away, bellowing forth their love or their anger?
39979Who could have heard such a tale without emotion?
39979Who could not with a little industry have helped himself to a few of their skins?
39979Who is he of the settlers on the Mississippi that can not realize some profit?
39979Who knows but I may shoot a turkey or a deer?
39979Who''s there?
39979Who, in this world, man or fish, has not enough of them?
39979[ Andrew?]
39979all we cared for is taken from us, and why not at once join our child in the land of the Great Spirit?"
39979ay and Ravens too?
39979for to say,"What have you shot at?"
39979what do you mean?"
39979why did you kill so many Crows last winter?
39979you''ve played us a trick, have you?
13325Then again how are they disabled by the wasp, and yet not injured so as to cause their immediate death? 13325 & V._? Priacanthus Blochii,_ Bleek_. 13325 & V._? ramak,_ Forsk._ opercularis,_ C. 13325 (? Blævis,_ iGray_, in Index Testaceologicus.) 13325 (?) 13325 ), the kangewena, or unicorn fish(_ Balistes?_), and a number of others, are more or less in bad repute from the same imputation.] 13325 *? relictus,_ Wlk_. 13325 ----? 13325 9-maculata,_ Fabr_.? 13325 ? Thynnus affinis,_ Ca nt._ Cybium Commersonii,_ Lacép._ guttatum,_ Schn._ Naucrates ductor,_ L._ Elacate nigra,_ Bl._? n. 13325 ? Thynnus affinis,_ Ca nt._ Cybium Commersonii,_ Lacép._ guttatum,_ Schn._ Naucrates ductor,_ L._ Elacate nigra,_ Bl._? n. 13325 ? Uranoscopus guttatus,_ C. 13325 ? hebes,_ Wlk_. 13325 ? panops,_ Wlk_. 13325 Amsacta? 13325 Camptorhinus,_ Schön_.? 13325 Can it be that the latter avoid the path, on discovering this evidence of the proximity of recent passengers?] 13325 Can it be that they thus assemble in groups in the hills for the sake of accumulated warmth at the cool altitude of 4000 feet? 13325 Can this have reference to the peculiarity of the stomach for retaining a supply of water? 13325 Cimex,_ Linn._ lectularius,_ Linn._? 13325 Crysophrys hasta,_ Bl._? Pimelepterus Ternatensis,_ Bleek_. 13325 Cucujus? 13325 Debaani?,_ Jek_. 13325 Do they, too, take asummer sleep,"like the reptiles, molluscs, and tank fishes?
13325Dussumieri_?
13325Forficula,_ Linn._------?
13325Gymnoplistia?
13325Hemiteles?,_ Grav_.
13325How then does the enclosed fly always select the right end, and with what secretion is it supplied to decompose this mortar?"]
13325Ichthyology of Ceylon, little known Fish for table, seir fish Sardines, poisonous?
13325Is it a fact that, in America, pigs extirpate the rattlesnakes with impunity?]
13325Is the sense of smell sufficient to account for this display of instinct in them?
13325Ixodes...?
13325Lumbricus...?
13325Nephila...?
13325Oribata...?
13325Osorius?
13325P-- n. s.][ Footnote 2:_ Gelasimus tetragonon_?
13325Peneus...?
13325Steaopus...?
13325TENEBRIONIDÆ,_ Leach._ Zophobas,_ Dej._ errans?
13325Tachina?
13325Thalamlta...?
13325There are many other species of the Coccus tribe in Ceylon, some( Pseudococcus?)
13325Whence do they re- appear?
13325[ 1][ Footnote 1: Rhinolophus affinis?
13325[ 2][ Footnote 1:_ Culex laniger?_ Wied.
13325[ Footnote 1: A Singhalese variety of the_ Rana cutipora?_ and the Malabar bull- frog,_ Hylarana Malabarica_.
13325[ Footnote 2:_ Pentaceros?_]_ Sea Slugs_.--There are a few species of_ Holothuria_, of which the trepang is the best known example.
13325_ Alpheus_...?
13325_ Cardisoma_...?
13325_ Dromia_...?
13325_ Grayii_?
13325_ Porcellana_...?
13325_ Squilla_...?
13325affinis,_ N.S.__ Crangon_...?
13325ambiguus,_ Sch_.?
13325annulipes_?
13325compressum?
13325cucullata?
13325extensicollis,?
13325goudotti?_ Bennett.]
13325histrio,_ Fabr_., var.?
13325lateralis,_ Fabr_.?
13325longicollis?
13325molossus?
13325or is it aided by special organs in the case of the others?
13325punctiger?
13325semipunctatus,_ Fabr._ Platysoma,_ Leach._ atratum?
13325transmarinus,_ Herbst_.?
27463But could he not go to another part of the jungle and join some other herd of elephants who do n''t_ know_ that he is a rogue?
27463But if he had not repented?
27463But if the culprit keeps turning round, so that the president can not get behind him?
27463But if the lion can not leap very far, how does he catch his prey at all?
27463But if the prey turns in time and faces the tiger with its horns?
27463But was he not ill- treated before? 27463 But what about the alligator?"
27463But what is the best way of leading the herd through the jungle?
27463But why do different kinds of leopards have different ground colors?
27463But why is the lion a member of the Cat Tribe at all?
27463But,you may ask,"why ca n''t the other elephants behind him also stop and eat up all the leaves on the trees near them?"
27463Does n''t_ he_ need to cultivate some gift to escape his enemy? 27463 How will it be punished?"
27463Is it enough at last?
27463Is it enough?
27463Is not that needless cruelty?
27463Then how do people in India get their ivory, if they never kill an elephant?
27463Then how must he lead the herd so as to find water, as well as food?
27463But can you see in what qualities the lion is_ different_ from all other felines?
27463But if the prey is too large to carry, such as a bullock or a buffalo?
27463But suppose the leader can not find such a place?
27463But when the tiger and tigress are both away from the den in search of food, are the cubs quite safe in the den?
27463But why do different kinds of leopards have different kinds of spots?
27463But why does she do so?
27463CHAPTER VII The Tiger Cubs''Lessons Do tiger children have lessons?
27463Can you guess?
27463Can you tell why?
27463Can you think how the tiger does that?
27463Could they reach the trees in time?
27463Do you know that in the United States every man, woman, and child on an average throws away every year seven dollars''worth of food_ on the plate_?
27463Do you know why people are at all able to use elephants in a circus, and give you pleasure by making them do tricks?
27463Does not that seem wonderful?
27463Have you ever noticed that?
27463He looked around with bleary, bloodshot eyes; he thought,"Can I not yet escape?"
27463How can the spots on the leopard''s skin be_ useful_ to him?
27463How can you tell the difference between the Cat Tribe and the Dog Tribe?
27463How could they know that?
27463How do they know that?
27463How does he know that?
27463How does she do it?
27463How does she tell them that?
27463How is that?
27463How long does this punishment last?
27463How long is that?
27463How many_ men_ would do that?
27463How?
27463If he should get unruly and commit a crime once more, would he be punished just the same?
27463Is not that a very clever method of providing both food and drink for the herd?
27463Is not that very wise?
27463Is there no enemy that tries to eat the alligator in his turn?"
27463She wondered if it could be the_ lavender_ that he loved, and not the handkerchief itself?
27463So what did the leopard do?
27463So, how could he stop Mukna from murdering the six men?
27463So, what happened?
27463Suppose one of the elephants suddenly went mad?
27463Suppose there is a river, but not enough food near the river?
27463Then did not Mukna''s keeper_ ever_ ill- treat him?"
27463Then he asked Mukna,"Is it_ now_ enough?"
27463Then how can the tiger cubs manage to seize the prey at all with their teeth?
27463Then what does a wise leader do?
27463Then what must he do?
27463Then what must the president of the neutral herd do?
27463Then why do people trust themselves with elephants?
27463Then why do people use elephants in a circus or in a procession?
27463What did that mean?
27463What does that mean?
27463When does that happen?
27463Who says that animals have no memory?
27463Why do they trust themselves with such large and strong animals?
27463Why does the leopard have spots at all?
27463Why is it necessary for a feline to be able to do both-- to draw in its claws, and to thrust them out?
27463Why is that?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463Why?
27463_ The Brand of the Rogue_ How would they find that out at once?
27463_ Tiger Cubs Learn to Catch Prey by Themselves_"But when do the tiger cubs actually learn to_ catch_ the prey?"
27463_ Wise Elephant Leader Avoids War_ Then what does the president of the first herd do?
45496(_ Lozotænia riteana_, Stephens?)]
45496And is it not still more singular, that they have the art of making a correspondence between cells of such reciprocal discrepance?
45496But how are the bees to carry out so heavy a burthen?
45496Do they anticipate the inconvenience which would attend any other mode of building?
45496Every garden is covered with caterpillars; and yet how few moths and butterflies, comparatively, are seen, even in the most sunny season?
45496Had we precluded the bees from all means of sustenance by removing the farina?
45496How can so many insects, occupied at once on the edges of the combs, concur in giving them a common curvature from one extremity to the other?
45496How can we account for instinct leading them to undo what they have executed with the utmost care?
45496How do they resolve on establishing cells so small on one side, while dimensions so enlarged are bestowed on those of the other?
45496Magnified Cells of_ Pyralis strigulalis_(?)
45496Must the grub, then, which inhabits the latter have less need of respiring air than the grub of the breeze- flies in a flesh- gall?
45496We recently met with a remarkable instance of this at Lee, in the cocoons of one of the larger ichneumons(_ Ophion Vinulæ_?
45496What would have been their astonishment had they observed that part of them are the result of calculation?
45496Why should not an insect be supposed to have a glimmering of the value of ornament?
45496Why should they?
45496[ BP][ Illustration: Magnified Cells of Pyralis strigulalis?
45496[ Illustration: Currant Gall of the catkins of the Oak, produced by_ Cynips quercus pedunculi_?]
45496[ Illustration: Leaf of the Monthly Rose(_ Rose Indica_), mined by Caterpillars of Argyromiges?]
45496[ Illustration: Leafy Gall of Dyer''s Broom, produced by_ Cynips genistæ_?
45496[ Illustration: Root Galls of the Oak, produced by_ Cynips quercus inferus_?
45496[ Illustration: Semi- Gall of the Hawthorn, produced by_ Cecidomyia_?
45496[ Illustration: Small berry- shaped galls of the oak leaf, produced by_ Cynips quercus folii_?]
45496and at home, what philosophers have done more honour to their country and to human nature than Ray, Willughby, Lister, and Derham?
45019( 1) The generative products of both sexes originate in the ectoderm( epiblast): Hydra, Cordylophora, Tubularia, all(?)
45019( 2) Are there any grounds for thinking that there is more than one line along which the Metazoa have become independently evolved from the Protozoa?
45019( 3) To what extent is there a complete homology between the two primary germinal layers throughout the Metazoa?
45019), and in many Hydrozoa and Actinozoa, and in Nemertea and Nematelminthes(_ Gordioidea?_).
45019), some Cladocera( Moina)(?).
45019190), the Tunicata, Petromyzon(?
45019212), Planaria polychroa(?).
45019According to Todaro there are further formed two small auditory(?
45019Aves, finally, appear to have become differentiated along a third line; since in their ancestors the anterior(?)
45019During the segmentation nuclei make their appearance spontaneously(?)
45019How did this connection originate?
45019How far do Marshall''s anterior and posterior roots of the cranial nerves exhibit these respective peculiarities?
45019How is this embryo to be treated?
45019How is this remarkable feature of the eye of the Chordata to be explained?
45019In Amphioxus they pass by dehiscence into the atrial cavity, and thence through the gill slits and by the mouth, or by the abdominal pore(?)
45019In Notodelphis ovipara the eggs are transported( by the male?)
45019In Rana the transverse ducts which pass off from the longitudinal canal of the Wolffian body, after dilating to form(?)
45019In addition to these gills, which are vascular processes of the mesoblast, covered, according to Götte, with an epiblastic(?)
45019Is it conceivable that the hypoblast in one species becomes the epiblast in a closely allied species?
45019Is such an element to be recognized in the head of the Chordata?
45019On the establishment of a bilateral symmetry the anterior part of the nervous ring gave rise(?)
45019The first type of delamination is found in the Ceratospongiæ, some Silicispongiæ(?
45019The larvæ of the Echinodermata and Actinotrocha(?)
45019The nervous system of the Platyelminthes( when present), of the Rotifera, Brachiopoda, Polyzoa(?
45019The question thus arises, is the peculiar modification of the mandibular arch of the Tadpole an_ inherited_ or an_ acquired_ feature?
45019These were first discovered by Braun in Reptilia, and consist in this group of a series of outgrowths from the primary(?)
45019_ Coelenterata._--Ctenophora(?).
45019_ Crustacea._--Cirripedia(?
45019_ Turbellaria._--Leptoplana(?
45019_ m._ mouth;_ an._ anus;_ sg._ supraoesophageal ganglion(?).]
45019_ m._ mouth;_ st._ suctorial(?)
45019_ op._ eye;_ ol._ olfactory pit;_ st._ suctorial(?)
45019_ op._ optic vesicles;_ br.c._ branchial clefts(?
45019_ vn._ ventral nerve- cord;_ am._ amnion and serous membrane;_ me._ mesoblast;_ me.s._ somatic mesoblast;_ hy._ hypoblast(?
45019to the supraoesophageal ganglia, and the optic organs connected with them; while the posterior part of the nerve- ring formed(?)
47757More mature birds(? 47757 Still more mature bird(?
47757); Semirara?
47757?
47757? Gerygone flaveola Guillemard, Proc.
47757Adult( sex?
47757Aleutian Islands?, northeastern Siberia, Kamchatka, China; Burma in winter; accidental in Lower California.
47757Are they then distinct?
47757Balabac( Everett); Palawan?
47757Balabac(?
47757Birds''Eggs( 1901), 1, 59; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- List( 1906), 8.?
47757Bongao( Everett); Meimbun( Everett?
47757Calamianes?
47757Calayan( McGregor); Camiguin N.( McGregor); Fuga( McGregor); Luzon( Whitehead); Mindanao( Mearns); Mindoro( Platen?
47757Calayan( McGregor); Luzon( Whitehead); Mindoro(?
47757In certain individuals( young?
47757In many specimens( very old males?)
47757Lempijius?
47757Leyte?
47757Luzon( Everett, Whitehead); Marinduque( Steere Exp.?)
47757Luzon(?
47757Male similar?
47757Megalurus ruficeps, not Megalurus?
47757Mindanao( Sonnerat?, Platen).
47757Mindanao?
47757Papers( 1894), 1, 11; Sharpe, Hand- List( 1900), 2, 43; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- List( 1906), 51.?
47757Ptilocichla(?)
47757Ptiocichla(?)
47757Sexes alike?
47757Volvocivora(?)
47757Why should it disappear in Samar and Leyte, to reappear in Cebu and Luzon?
47757Wing, 92.5[ 62.5?
4907Ai n''t it the prettiest thing?
4907Are you sorry?
4907Could n''t I wash off a little blood in the creek, and tie up my toe with a dock leaf and some grass? 4907 Did you ever see whiter white?"
4907Did you know them?
4907Do n''t they sting you? 4907 Is there a moth that colour?"
4907What do you want with their eggs?
4907Where did you learn it?
4907Why do n''t you get something sharp, and split the cocoons so they can get out?
4907''Would you be interested in them?''
4907But what of the millions of Nature Lovers, who each year snatch only a brief time afield, for rest and recreation?
4907Could he do anything?
4907Did n''t you know better than to open a box with moths in it outdoors at night?"
4907Do n''t they bite you?"
4907If the girl had asked,"Shall I go back?"
4907Protection from the rank leaves was not all the birds sought of these plants, for goldfinches were darting around inviting all creation to"See me?"
4907The dining- room then, with panelled walls and curtains of tapestry?
4907The farmer''s wife stuck her elbow into his ribs, and said,"How''s that for the queerest spec''men ye ever see?"
4907When may I come?"
4907Why not drop it all, and go where there were cool forests and breezes sighing?
4907Would I?
35513An''air ye sure it''s a good one-- good enough to drag us''way out here on?
35513An''why not?
35513And when air ye goin''to start?
35513But whatever did he want o''my mitts?
35513Did anybody see him this mornin''?
35513Did n''t ye, Tug?
35513Did the book agent try to make up to Sis Hopkins?
35513Do n''t you see he''s took to the water? 35513 Do you think I''m goin''to hand over the child to a perfect stranger, just because he comes and says he''s the child''s uncle?
35513Does this belong to you, Andy Stevens?
35513Ef_ you_ do n''t know, Tug,said MacDonald,"who_ kin_ know?"
35513Hain''t ye caught on to Jim''s signs yet?
35513Have a weed?
35513Hev ye got any kind of a_ reel_ clue, d''ye think, now?
35513Hev ye got any reel idee to come an''go on, Tug?
35513How dare you interfere between my nephew and me? 35513 How do ye know it''s yourn, Andy?"
35513If ye''re so skeered o''me as ye look,demanded Peddler, in a crisp voice,"why do n''t ye turn an''vamoose,''stead o''backin''an''fillin''that way?
35513Jim likes the bear, sir,_ does n''t_ he?
35513Most an albino, ai n''t he?
35513Mr. Blackstock, I presume? 35513 Oh, do you think so?"
35513Well,she demanded,"is n''t Harner''s Bend a good place to come away from?
35513What are ye goin''to do about it, Tug?
35513What are you doin''here?
35513What d''ye make o''that?
35513What d''ye suppose he''s found there?
35513What do I care about the old shop? 35513 What do you make of it?"
35513What do you mean by that foolin''?
35513What does that prove?
35513What if there should be a fire at the mill? 35513 What is it, Hawker?"
35513What''ll ye bet that ye''re not mistaken, the both o''yez?
35513What''re you all starin''at me fer, boys?
35513What''s bears to you? 35513 What''s makin''you so sore, Sam?"
35513What''s that bit o''paper ye found under him, Tug?
35513What''s that?
35513Whatever ye been doin''to Jim, Sam?
35513Where am I, Jim?
35513Where is he?
35513Where''s Tug Blackstock?
35513Where''s he gone to?
35513Who''s been lettin''loose the menagerie? 35513 Why do n''t ye search him, Tug?"
35513Why should_ you_ not want to think, Mary?
35513Will you be so good as to direct me to him?
35513Ye bloomin''fool,shouted Hawker, again growing excited,"ye do n''t s''pose he''d be carryin''it on him, do ye?
35513Ye was sayin''as how ye''d jest come up from Cribb''s Ridge?
35513You''d never go back on me, would you, Jim, no matter what I''d done?
35513_ Kr- rr- rr- eee?_he murmured softly, as if in sarcastic interrogation.
35513_ Where_ did you say that hole in the tree was?
35513Ai n''t that a title for ye?
35513An''where in tarnation is that b''ar?"
35513And if so, who?
35513And me a dress- maker?
35513But what I want to know is, what authority have you to demand the child?"
35513But what river- man would come to grief in the Run at this stage of the water?
35513But where was Black Dan, that''s what I want to know?"
35513But why should you thank me?
35513Did it ever strike you that way, Tug?"
35513Do I look like the kind of girl that_ would n''t_ come away from Harner''s Bend?
35513Do n''t it show ye right off the kind of book it is?
35513Do you think I could settle down to spend my life in the backwoods?
35513Do you think I have no dreams beyond the spruce woods of Nipsiwaska County?
35513Do you think I''d ought to have stopped there?
35513Do you think you could imprison_ me_ in Brine''s Rip?
35513Guess we''ll call it square, eh?"
35513Had any one been disagreeable to Woolly Billy?
35513He could see it was a small child''s jacket, but what was he expected to do with it?
35513I guess yer interestin''hipotheesis do n''t quite fill the bill-- eh, Andy?"
35513I s''pose you''re thinkin''about your shop while ye''re away?"
35513Now, what''s the price?"
35513Or hev I got the nightmare, mebbe?"
35513Ought n''t there to be more than one night watchman in such dry weather as this?
35513That there skunk- oil on Dan''s moccasins fooled_ both_ Jim an''me, good an''plenty, did n''t it?"
35513The crowd''s excitement was somewhat damped by this pronouncement, and Hawker''s exasperating voice was heard to drawl:"No_ evidence_, hey?
35513Was it, too, he wondered, coming to attack the terrified sausage, or to defend it?
35513What d''ye mean by foolin''about after woodchucks a time like this?
35513What proofs have you?"
35513Whatever I''ve done, it''s been for Woolly Billy''s own sake-- ain''t it, Billy?"
35513Where''s your wings, Dan?
35513Will ye come out quietly an''give yerself up, or do ye want trouble?"
35513Would n''t the whole village go, like a box of matches?
35513and"Did ye ever hear the likes o''that?"
26346Does the house wren always close its song with the rising inflection, as if it were asking a question?
26346A few days later I made my way to the hilltop, and do you know that the shrewd bird played me the same trick?
26346A query arises here: Did I see four different winter wrens during the winter, or only one in four different localities?
26346A question that disturbs all bird lovers more or less is this: Does the fine white vest of the jay cover a bad heart?
26346ARE BIRDS SINGERS OR WHISTLERS?
26346An important question, therefore, from more than one point of view is: Should we ever kill the blue jay?
26346And how do our feathered citizens solve this important problem in the cold weather?
26346And what do you suppose was the tune he executed?
26346And what was happening over in the field?
26346And what was the name of the little stranger who had introduced himself in so informal a way?
26346Are all of them parasites?
26346Are n''t you out of your proper latitude?"
26346Are they manufactured far down in the trachea, or only at its anterior opening?
26346Are they voice tones or flute tones?
26346Beautiful, is it not?
26346Besides, while still in the nest, they must have heard many other bird calls; why did they not acquire them?
26346But do you know that my most strenuous efforts-- and they_ were_ strenuous on a hot day like that-- resulted only in disappointment?
26346But have you never thought how many of the fine shot must wound some of the birds that fly away?
26346But how are these birds to be treated?
26346But how does he hold himself on his shaggy wall as he hitches head downward?
26346But the sweet, silvery roulade-- could there be anything more charming in the world of outdoor music?
26346But what about the song sparrows of Kansas?
26346But what is properly included in a bird''s foot?
26346But what is to be said of the screaming cowbird?
26346But what kind of nests do the rock nuthatches construct on their limestone walls?
26346But where is that modest little personage, his wife?
26346But who can blame him?
26346But, now, suppose the wing is closed, will not this cord make a cumbersome fold, flapping loosely in the angle of the elbow?
26346Did any one ever hear or read of such a performance in all the annals of birdland?
26346Do n''t you know that the man prowling about yonder will shoot little birds who betray their presence by singing?"
26346Do n''t you see how?
26346Does he wish to chisel a grub out of the bark of a tree?
26346Does it not look as if the forehanded nuthatch was laying by a supply of ants for a coming time of hunger?
26346Had the storm driven them to other climes where bland winds prevailed?
26346Have you ever been ill- mannered enough to watch the birds going to bed?
26346Have you ever heard the jay''s brief musical roulade?
26346How do the birds, in perching and roosting, retain their hold so long on a limb without becoming weary?
26346How do you suppose he went about it?
26346How does a bird produce the melodious notes that emanate from his throat?
26346How does he do this?
26346How may one study the birds intelligently?
26346How would you feel, my friend, if, as you were going along the street, a lot of hoodlums should take to gibing and hooting at you?
26346In such a case how could the parent birds distinguish between friend and foe?
26346Is he really a thief, a nest robber, or even worse, a cannibal, in plumes?
26346Is it not a wonderfully wise contrivance?
26346Is n''t he a dandy?
26346Is n''t that a stylish topknot, though?
26346Is not that cruel?
26346Is there such a thing as social ostracism in the bird world?
26346It may be asked, Why?
26346It was so large that he was choking; what should be done?
26346Might his motto be,"Little birds should be heard and not seen"?
26346Might the cause be physiological?
26346Might these hilltop eremites have committed some crime or some breach of decorum that effected their banishment from respectable avicular society?
26346Or were they simply of a sullen or retiring disposition, choosing seclusion rather than the company of their kind?
26346Quite stuck- up, ai n''t he?
26346Suppose we were compelled to be incessantly on the lookout for danger, should we ever have a moment of peace or joy?
26346They seemed to be saying jeeringly:"Is n''t that a funny way for a bird to build a house?
26346To begin at the beginning, let me ask: Who would expect to study the plants and flowers without a botany?
26346Were there ever birds with more dulcet tones, with finer voice register, or with a greater variety of tunes in their repertoire?
26346Were there ever such pesky, ill- mannered citizens as the English sparrows?
26346Were they so badly frightened because I was returning to their nest?
26346What are some of the proofs of his vandalism?
26346What billsome morsels did they find on the snow?
26346What did I discover?
26346What do I mean by that?
26346What had become of my feathered neighbors, my companions in every ramble throughout the winter?
26346What if the whim should seize him to pipe a trill or a quaver to the water witches of the meadow, as Master Song Sparrow so often chooses to do?
26346What in the world did it mean-- a man lying flat on the ground out there in the woods?
26346What is the reason of this difference between the eastern and western birds?
26346What more can the bird student desire for purposes of identification?
26346What part of the grape did he eat?
26346What tools are needed for acquiring bird lore?
26346What were they doing?
26346What were those two large black objects over yonder in the woods?
26346When you have found a plant or a flower that is new to you, what is your first task?
26346Who can tell what impelled her to make a living gem like this, as odd as it is beautiful?
26346Who can tell?
26346Who can tell?
26346Who has ever seen a pet bird in drinking try to lap like a dog, or take in long draughts like a cow or a horse?
26346Who has ever seen two cowbirds fighting a duel like the orioles, meadowlarks, and robins?
26346Who was his teacher?
26346Why add to their sorrows?
26346Why do they, of all birds, choose the highest mountain peaks for their summer homes?
26346Would he never be satisfied, the great, greedy, overgrown lubber?
26346You ask at once and in some surprise, Why not?
26346or the planets and stars without a treatise on astronomy?
26346or the rocks and fossils and the general structure of the earth without a reliable work on geology?
45018( 2) How is the one of these to be derived from the other?
45018( 2) What meaning has it in the development of the ovum or the embryo?
45018101,_ shs._) is soon formed, in which a chitinous plug may become developed( Paludina, Cymbulia?
450186), or they admit(?)
45018A large cephalo- thorax and well- developed tail(?)
45018Are the different phyla descended from the Nauplius direct, or have they branched at a later period from some central stem?
45018Do they represent stages in the actual evolution of the present types, or have their characters been secondarily acquired in larval life?
45018Does this larva retain the characters of an ancestral type of the Spongida, and if so, what does its form mean?
45018For some time the larva remains in the two- layered condition, but gradually canals(?
45018How many of these characters did the ancestral planula possess?
45018In Cephalopods the vascular system is formed by a series of independent(?)
45018In most Diptera, Hymenoptera and(?)
45018Insects supply the best known examples of this, but Piscicola, Bonellia(?)
45018Is it equivalent to the second pair of maxillæ of Insects or to the first pair of limbs of Insects?
45018It is essentially formed of a thickening of the peritoneal epithelium, and in Osseous Fish, Ganoids(?)
45018Its anterior section gives rise, according to Kowalevsky, to a dorsal(?)
45018May not these invaginations be really rudiments of the eyes as well as of the ganglia?
45018That the second pair of antennæ are biramous swimming feet with a hook used in mastication, and are innervated(?)
45018The dorsal organ(_ m?_) is placed on the oral face at the bottom of an elongated groove, in front of which is a bunch of long cilia or flagella.
45018The eggs of all Craniata( except Petromyzon(?))
45018The embryo becomes ciliated and begins to rotate; and the eyes, and somewhat later(?)
45018The embryo of the Cephalopoda agrees very closely with that of normal Odontophora in the formation of the mantle and(?)
45018The embryo thus becomes divided into four segments, of which the two foremost appear(?)
45018The following forms have meroblastic ova of the first type: the Cephalopoda,_ Pyrosoma_, Elasmobranchii, Teleostei, Reptilia, Aves, Ornithodelphia(?).
45018The formation of the permanent excretory(?)
45018The former opens(?)
45018The layer so formed serves as a covering for the embryo, regarded by Ganin as equivalent to the amnion(?
45018The majority of the Nemertea, including the whole(?)
45018The number of nutritive cells varies from two( one?)
45018The outer layer of cells( epiblast) becomes covered with cilia, and the inner is transformed into a non- cellular(?)
45018The point where they finally enclose it is situated on the ventral surface( Lang) at about the position of the mouth(?).
45018The young after hatching attach themselves to the body of their parent, on which they feed(?).
45018These areas would seem(?)
45018They are arranged in groups at one( the anterior?)
45018They are developed in pouches of the ovary which are lined by a flattened germinal epithelium, or sometimes(?)
45018This cavity, somewhat as in Ascetta, becomes filled up with a not clearly(?)
45018This is known as the type of Desor and is confined(?)
45018Two questions about it obviously present themselves for solution:( 1) What are the conditions of its occurrence with reference to impregnation?
45018Two questions arise from these considerations:--( 1) Which is the primitive, delamination or invagination?
45018Where this cord joins the apex of the præ- oral lobe between the two anterior bands of cilia a thickening of the epiblast(?
45018_ a._ blastopore;_ br._ branchiæ;_ inf.1_ and_ inf.2_ posterior and anterior folds of the funnel;_ g.op._ optic ganglion(?
45018_ m._ mouth;_ an._ anus;_ sg._ supra- oesophageal ganglion(?).]
45018_ m_(?)
45018_ m_(?)
45018_ vn._ ventral nerve cord;_ am._ amnion and serous membrane;_ me._ mesoblast;_ me.s._ somatic mesoblast;_ hy._ hypoblast(?
45018dorsal organ;_ st._ stomodæum(?
45018groove above dorsal organ;_ Ph._ dorsal organ;_ st._ stomodæum(?
45018proboscis;_ ms._ muscular layer(?
45018|||+------------------------+---------------------+----------------------+| 4th""|(?)
27277Bobolinks?
27277Oh, what have I to do with time? 27277 What bird is that?"
27277What is it?
27277Where did you find that stuff?
27277( What should one say to a squirrel?)
27277A chapter, did I say?
27277And where was that much needed personage?
27277Are bobolinks always this jolly, delightful crowd?
27277Are they never quarrelsome?
27277But if one is not a poet, must he then suffer and enjoy in silence?
27277But may there not be two sides to the story?
27277But the bluejays?
27277But where was the mother?
27277But who was she?
27277Can the goldfinch wooing be a sort of Comanche affair?
27277Could it be a cuckoo baby we had heard?
27277Could it be that the sons and daughters of this warbler family outrage all precedent by wearing their grown- up dress in the cradle?
27277Could this bird, to his mate so thoughtful and polite, be to the rest of the world the bully he is pictured?
27277Did he prefer to be on good terms with his peppery neighbor?
27277Did he think her capable of managing her own affairs?
27277Did he wish to experiment with some theory of his own on another''s baby?
27277Did his heart fail him, or, perchance, his footing give way?
27277Did, then, the daughters of the house meekly fly, without preliminary study of the world from the door?
27277Do you know what it is to be under robin surveillance?
27277Does he drop his part of poet, of reveler of the meadows, I wonder, and come down to the sober prose of stuffing baby mouths?
27277Does not our own native poet say:--"Who speeds to the woodland walks?
27277Had I unwittingly picked some of his special treasures, some rare exotic which he had cultivated with care?
27277Had he driven her from his nest?
27277Had he, perchance, been bereaved of his own younglings, and felt moved to bestow his parental care upon somebody?
27277Had the poor birds carried off the babies?
27277Had there been an accident and were these the survivors?
27277Had, then, an owl paid a twilight visit, and could a redstart be surprised?
27277How could I miss so good a chance to see that tawny youngster, when I knew I should not lay finger on it?
27277How shall one put into words the delights of the woods in June without"dropping into poetry?"
27277How should she know that it is wrong to eat chickens; or that robin babies were made to live and grow up, and crow babies to die of starvation?
27277How were this pair distinguished from each other, since there is no difference in their dress?
27277If he were a chestnut- sided infant, how did he come in a redstart nest, and what had the redstart to do with him?
27277If he were a redstart, why did Mamma refuse help in her hard work, and why did the chestnut- sided insist on helping?
27277Indeed, had more than one infant reached maturity?
27277Is the little bride won by force?
27277It had all the airs of ownership, and its colors were olive and yellow; had, then, the roguish redstart deceived me, after all?
27277It was a redstart nest without doubt, but who owned the baby?
27277Must we then conclude that the dignity of a bird depends upon the length of his tail?
27277No doubt she could sing, and perhaps she does,--who knows?
27277Of my shoes I will not speak; shall we not have souls above shoe- leather?
27277Or could it be_ sotto voce_ remarks of the bird himself?
27277Or could, perchance, a squirrel have stolen upon him unaware?
27277Or had, perchance, another nest tragedy occurred?
27277Or is she, perchance, like some of her sisters of larger growth, who require a"scene"of some sort to make them"name the day"?
27277Peace from a kingbird?
27277The water lapped softly against the shore; but who can"Write in a hook the morning''s prime, Or match with words that tender sky"?
27277To birds and trees who talks?
27277To whom, then, did the nest belong?
27277Was anything worth while, indeed, except to dream and muse, lulled by the music of the"laughing water"?
27277Was ever a pair so quiet?
27277Was he a charity- mad personage, such as we sometimes see among bigger folk, determined to benefit his kind, whether they would or no?
27277Was it a new bird with this unbird- like cry?
27277Was it derision, complaint, or a mere neighborly call?
27277Was it his aim to coax that young redstart to desert his family and follow after the traditions of the chestnut- sided?
27277Was it his mate answering, or criticising his music?
27277Was it the first note of his newly- fledged offspring?
27277Was it worth while to go on?
27277Was some tramp mother hidden behind the bushes?
27277Was the troublesome brawler a spoiled"only child"?
27277We can not have you in our fields;--but, after all, is n''t the morning delicious?"
27277Were there, perchance, no daughters?
27277Were they busy in the grass with bobolink babies?
27277Were we the cause of the calamity?
27277What ails the warbler?
27277What business had I, an interloper in his dominion, to interfere with his rights, or to say whether he should dine off birds or berries?
27277What can you make out of that?"
27277What could be his motive?
27277What could it be?
27277What did it matter that I should find my bluejay?
27277What sort of a father is the gay singer?
27277When he puts aside the leafy portière and enters the cool green paradise of the trees, must he be dumb?
27277Where shall we keep the holiday?
27277Who can guess what mysteries shall be disclosed, what interesting episodes of life shall be seen about that charmed spot?
27277Who could tell what the next turn might reveal?
27277Who knows but he was experimenting to see if this simple, wide- open cradle would n''t do as well for oriole babies as for kingbirds?
27277Who''s that?"
27277Why can I not delight in a bird or flower, knowing it by what it is to me, without longing to know what it has been to some other person?
27277Why have we such a rage for labeling and cataloguing the beautiful things of Nature?
27277Why should he spend his time hunting insects?
27277and did they enjoy the music as keenly as I did?
27277and was she complaining?
27277and where had they nested?
27277as who should say,"Can such things be?"
27277or was it because with her it would be a war of words, while if he entered the arena it must be a fight?
27277said I, exultingly,"are your little folk in there?
55583''Whatever has happened to you?''
55583Above all, at what distance could he kill?
55583And did men travel fast?
55583And now her leg was utterly useless, here was Kahwa a helpless cub: what was she to do?
55583And what of all the insects and smaller things that must be perishing by millions every minute?
55583And what of all the living things that had died?
55583And what should we find to eat in all this smoking wilderness?
55583Besides, what else were we to do?
55583But how about me?
55583But how could you expect me to be friendly to man after all that I have suffered at his hands?
55583But if she could not fight four men, could not we?
55583But what could we do?
55583But what was a bear doing abroad at high noon of such a day, and crashing through the bushes in that headlong fashion?
55583But what was the use of climbing a tree, when we had just seen the osprey killed on the top of one much higher than any that we could climb?
55583But what was the use, when it never got cold and my meals came every day?
55583CHAPTER VIII ALONE IN THE WORLD Have you any idea how frightfully stiff one is after nearly five months''consecutive sleep?
55583Could she not climb out?
55583Had the animals and birds that had passed us earlier in the day escaped?
55583How came man to be able to kill at such distances with it?
55583How far away, we asked, were the men?
55583If so, had they again, while we slept, dragged her off somewhere else?
55583Is it hours or days or weeks since you were last awake?
55583Kill him?
55583Was it an animal, or a fungus, or only a mound of earth?
55583We could easily have caught him had we wished to, but why should we?
55583Were those the ropes with which they had dragged Kahwa the night before?
55583What company were they to me?
55583What could any dog expect who dared to face such a bear as Wooffa fighting for her children?
55583What could it be?
55583What more could I have done had I had my freedom longer?
55583What was it?
55583What was to be done now?
55583Where should we go?
55583Why could not men live in peace with us as we were willing to live in peace with them?
55583Why does man do it?
55583Would it not be glorious, I asked?
59576But when?
59576Do they eat the edge of the sunset also?
59576How do you know that I am not a wolf?
59576If I am not a wolf, what am I?
59576Is the hunting better there than it is here?
59576Is there more game?
59576Today, or tomorrow, or when the moon is full?
59576What is the smell in me that is n''t wolf?
59576Where?
59576Who are the folk?
59576******* Did he go back to his people later?
59576Besides, were not his wolf- brothers all far out in the world?
59576But in the dark the odd feeling was still questioning:"If I am not a wolf, what am I?"
59576But what shapes were those coming down from the foothills-- those long, flowing shapes with tongues that lolled and eyes that shone?
59576But what was that driving furiously up the long steeps of the dawn?
59576Did he say good- bye to the wolf- folk for ever, and forget the ways of the Wild?
59576How should she, since the Great Spirit of the Wild had not told her?
59576If the wolf- brother went away and did not know that he was there, how would he carry a message to the rest of the pack?
59576Suppose some leader gave the signal for the entire pack to sweep down upon him and tear him limb from limb?
59576Suppose, after all, the Indians were able to hold their own?
59576Then, if he was not a wolf, what was he?
59576What was it?
59576What would they do?
59576Where had he smelt it before?
59576Who can say?
59576Why?
59576Would the wolves win?
59576Would they punish him for his impertinence?
59576[ Illustration: VERY DELIBERATELY AND SLOWLY, HE CAME DOWN THE SLOPE TOWARDS SHASTA AND SAT DOWN ON HIS HAUNCHES]"Shall we be brothers, you and I?"
59576[ Illustration: WHAT WAS THAT DRIVING FURIOUSLY UP THE LONG STEEPS OF THE DAWN?]
60659And ca n''t they climb?
60659Bully, ai n''t it?
60659But look here; we''re_ in_ something, if we did lose some sugar; we''ve got a bear cub, and my, ai n''t he a dandy?
60659Do you know where we are, Tom?
60659Guess we''re partners on this sugar making, ai n''t we?
60659It''s a panther, ai n''t it?
60659Oh, Tony, what if these bad men shoot_ our_ angel birds?
60659Oh, oh, what_ can_ we do? 60659 S''pose it climbs up_ before_ I get there?"
60659Say, what if the old bear comes back for her cub? 60659 Think he''ll come back?"
60659What for they get those angel bird feathers, Tony?
60659What is it?
60659What,_ that thing_? 60659 Where?"
60659Wo n''t we surprise the folks when we lug all this sugar home, and a bear cub too?
60659Ai n''t he just a corker?"
60659But from where?
60659Could it be that he had fallen down through the shaking beams to the floor below_ with_ the panther?
60659Did you ever chance to see a bat when it attempted to walk?
60659Had she been caught by the hounds?
60659Methuselah had not been asleep, however, so he just raised one cold eye and stared after the boys insolently, as much as to say,"Who''s afraid?"
60659My, ai n''t he the funniest little fellow?"
60659Say, why in creation did n''t you wake a fellow up?"
60659Then I wonder which one will come off the better, the badger or the hedgehog?
60659We never strike off quite so far east as this, do we?"
60659What could it be?
60659What could it have been?
60659What do you think of that?"
60659What if a beam should slip, and let him down below?
60659What would be their sad fate?
60659Where had Ned vanished?
60659Who is it that tells us the tortoise is so slow?
60659Would Tom never get the gun loaded and fire?
60659Would the great shell- fish never loosen its grip?
33936, the answer 2, although I had expected the answer 1; at another time I asked,How much is 16 less 9?
33936, twice in succession received the answer,3", and upon my question,"How much is 3 plus 4?"
33936,On which is the word''Stall''?
339363 times 3 is 8? 33936 And how often is two contained in six?
33936And there are always how many in each group? 33936 And where are your legs?"
33936But now, you were to add not merely 1, but 5; how much have you still to add to the 10?
33936How many are there?
33936How many balls are there to the left?
33936How many times two balls are there?
33936How many, therefore, are two times two?
33936There are now how many balls to the left?
33936What are the factors of 28?
33936What tone must be omitted to make it pleasant?
33936: was there a mixture of instruction and of training to respond to cues?
33936After Mr. Schillings had suffered this to occur three times he accosted the horse peremptorily:"And now are you going to answer correctly?".
33936All of the horse''s responses were correct, even the one answering the question:"How much is 7 times 7?
33936And now what was it that this wonderful horse could do?
33936And why should he not be willing to sell even a thinking horse, since he had become convinced that any other could be instructed in the same way?
33936At another time a picture of a horse standing at a manger was shown him and he was asked,"What does this represent?"
33936Besitzen die Tiere, speziell Hunde, Verstand oder nicht?
33936Busch?
33936But by means of which sense organ was it received by the horse?
33936C, d and e were given simultaneously and Hans was asked:"Does that sound pleasant?"
33936CHAPTER III THE AUTHOR''S INTROSPECTIONS In the preceding chapter we asked: What is it that determines the horse''s movements?
33936Do they call the blue, blue, and the red, red?
33936ETTLINGER, M. Sind die Tiere vernünftig?
33936FREUND, F. Der"kluge"Hans?
33936Gradually it became unnecessary to touch the foot or to point to the pins, and instead the question was introduced:"How many are there?
33936He could also answer such inquiries as this:"If the eighth day of a month comes on Tuesday, what is the date for the following Friday?"
33936His master asked him:"In which place are there two cloths?".
33936How many are still standing?"
33936How much must you add to the 9 to have 10?"
33936How was Mr. von Osten to know beforehand that every questioner, who might appear, would execute the same movements that he himself had used?
33936I asked the horse aloud"Which direction is left?
33936If an error entered into Hans''answer, he could nearly always correct it immediately upon being asked:"By how many units did you go wrong?"
33936If he carefully refrained from any movement whatsoever, and looking straight before him asked the horse,"Which direction is right?"
33936If we now ask:"What occurred in the mind of the questioners, while they were giving the signs?
33936Is it possible that such a man, one who had all the pride of gentle birth, would become a trickster in his old age, all for the love of money?
33936Later the cloth and pins were omitted and the question was asked:"How much is two and three?".
33936Mr. von Osten asked:"What is the position, counting from left to right, of the placard which has the word''aber''inscribed upon it?".
33936Mr. von Osten pointed to one of the men and asked:"On which of the slates is this gentleman''s name to be found?"
33936On still another occasion Mr. Grabow sang two tones-- the second being the fourth of the first-- and asked Hans:"How many intervals lie between?"
33936One time I received in response to the question,"What day of the week is Monday?
33936Or one might ask:"Hans, where is your head?
33936Pointing to the units of one group, the teacher asks:"There are always how many in the group?"
33936Possibly he understood also"trois"and"quatre"?
33936Stumpf?
33936That it was possible to ask such questions as:"How many times is 100,000 contained in 654321?
33936The command in this case was:"Jump", or the question was:"What do the horses do in the circus?".
33936The following were typical responses: Three tones were played and the question was asked,"How many tones were played?"
33936The horse was then asked:"Upon which placard is the word''Hans''?
33936The most important of these questions is,"Does the animal possess consciousness, and is it like the human consciousness?"
33936The opinion was expressed that"Hans was unable to answer the simplest question such as''What is two plus three?''
33936The test is: Do they, themselves, use them correctly?
33936The tones c, e, g, a,( 1, 3, 5, 6) were struck and the question asked,"Which tone must be eliminated to make the complex a chord?"
33936Then the question discussed was whether''tricks''were involved; now the question is: What is the mechanism of the process?
33936Thus Hans answered my question:"How many angles has a hexagon?
33936Thus I find in the record of the September- Commission that the question"How much is 3 plus 2?"
33936Thus he asked, e. g.,"2 times 2 is 5, is it not?"
33936Thus, Mr. von Osten in response to the question:"How much is 3 times 5?
33936Thus, what is the influence of the visual image upon the gestures for"up,""down,"etc.?
33936Thus, when I asked the horse:"How much is 2 plus 4?
33936Thus, when Mr. Hahn asked the question:"What is one- half of 10?
33936Thus, when to the question,"How many of the gentlemen present are wearing straw hats?"
33936To the question"Which of the two is the black one?"
33936To the question,"How much is 9 less 1?"
33936Upon being asked"What is this woman holding in her hand?"
33936What could have been his motive?
33936What was the genesis of these unnatural forms of expression?
33936What was the selective principle involved?
33936What was to be done, with this mass of conflicting explanations?
33936Who would work a child with such puzzling questions?
33936Why did they wait so long, if they had convincing proof for their position?
33936[ E]"How much is 2/5 plus 1/2?"
33936he answered,"3", and to"How much is 2 times 6?"
33936he tapped 6, and to"What is one- fourth of 36?"
33936or"Which way is upward?
33936or,"How many minutes has the large hand to travel between seven minutes after a quarter past the hour, and three quarters past?"
33936page 95)?
20547''What is it?'' 20547 And what has my colour to do with my danger?"
20547And what will happen if we choose the other pair of eggs?
20547And where is your own nest, O Great Blue Heron?
20547Are they-- good?
20547Are you never still?
20547But how do you find anything to eat in the winter- time?
20547But where is your red cap, and where is your white vest, and where is your black coat? 20547 But which shall we choose?"
20547But, chickadee, though you are so cheery and gay in winter, are you not really happier in the summer- time?
20547Could you?
20547Did you notice the little lane down which I returned to my tiny home?
20547Did you observe the dark brown lines on my head? 20547 Do feathers make a warm dress, mother?
20547Do n''t you see those black clouds above us? 20547 Do n''t your feet get very cold?"
20547Do you not see that bird perched upon the fence?
20547Do you stay here in the winter, then?
20547Fear?
20547How deep is it?
20547How does it happen that you are so fearless? 20547 How many have you now?"
20547I might have stepped on your nest?
20547Looking for a vacant house?
20547Must you go?
20547Now what can I do for him? 20547 Oh, did you come to my bird feast?"
20547On what shall you feed your little ones?
20547So you store away food?
20547That a bird''s nest?
20547Then you will sing for me again?
20547To- who? 20547 To- who?
20547We had eggs and--"Eggs?
20547Well, my friend,asked she,"where is your snow?"
20547Were you sorry to leave your safe high nest?
20547Wh- a- a- t--?
20547What are they up to?
20547What can be the matter?
20547What can he be doing?
20547What did you get for Christmas?
20547What is he doing?
20547What is that?
20547What is this strange plume stick?
20547What were you doing here?
20547Where did you get them?
20547Where did you spend the winter?
20547Where do you sleep?
20547Which eggs do you choose?
20547Who are you?
20547Who made it?
20547Why did you go into that hole to eat?
20547Why do you look toward the fence so often?
20547Why should I not be merry?
20547Will you build here in the apple- tree?
20547Will you have some of my berries?
20547Yes,Phyllis answered,"what is he doing there?"
20547You do not think your babies pretty?
20547You had eggs?
20547You remember how we used to sing in the spring? 20547 You?"
20547And the gray, greedy hawk said,"Where are you going, pretty lark?"
20547And the king said to the queen,"What shall we do for this little lark who has sung so sweet a song to us?"
20547And the sly fox said,"Where are you going, sweet lark?"
20547Are n''t you rather early?"
20547But that I do not mind, for will they not some day be as beautiful as I myself?"
20547Ca n''t you find the road to go Where''tis always May?
20547Did something tell him that his dear baby was in danger?
20547Did you ever see it?"
20547Did you not notice how I hovered near the grass- tops for a moment and then rose high into the air?"
20547Did you notice the white spot above each eye?"
20547Did your family leave you behind?"
20547Do n''t you find it hard to get Anything to eat?
20547Do n''t you know what a reaper is?
20547Do they make a warm winter dress?
20547Do you see how they are constantly dipping their bills into the water?
20547Have you not seen us flying about among the trees in the winter- time?"
20547How did you ever think of anything so lovely?"
20547How do you chance to be here in the winter- time?
20547Hungry little chickadees, Would you like some bread?
20547I do not fear for thee, though wroth The tempest rushes through the sky; For are we not God''s children both, Thou, little sandpiper, and I?
20547Jolly little chickadees, Have you had enough?
20547Oh, who are so happy as we?"
20547PREFACE Where can you find a lad who does not treasure among his secrets the nesting- place of some pair of birds?
20547Robins all have found it out, Wrens and bluebirds too, Do n''t you wish you''d thought to ask Ere away they flew?
20547Sorry little chickadees, Do n''t you know the way?
20547Tell me, did this last fish also stick in your throat?"
20547To what warm shelter canst thou fly?
20547To- who- ooo- oo- oo?"
20547To- who- whoo- oo- oo?"
20547WHICH WAS THE WISER?
20547What did you have for breakfast this morning?"
20547What shall I do when the thick snow flies and the winter winds cut like knives?"
20547What was it that made the farmer check his horses all at once?
20547When did you arrive?
20547Where can you find a child who does not watch for the first robin of spring- time?
20547Where can you find one who does not know when the wild ducks in the wedge- shaped flocks fly southward?
20547Which was the wiser, the raven or the robin?
20547Who is he, Jackie?"
20547Why do birds have feathers instead of fur?"
20547Why do you build so near our homes?
20547who was it called me short neck?''
48010And what name shall we give to those which, like the plover, render services which may be compared to medical attendance?
48010Are they coleoptera, as was for a long time, and perhaps correctly, supposed, or do they form a distinct order by themselves?
48010Are they parasites or messmates?
48010Are they parasites, pseudo- parasites, or messmates?
48010But what carnivore can habitually feed on the cheiroptera?
48010But whence comes it?
48010Can it be believed that such ideas were put forward by zoologists of the highest merit?
48010Did they come from within the bodies of certain insects which they have quitted, on account of the rain which had fallen?
48010Do not aphides also prevent the too rapid development of certain plants?
48010Do the cetacea generally live on fish, and do they become the prey of some aquatic carnivora?
48010Do we ever see her retrograde thus from a more 191 complicated organization to one more simple?"
48010Do we not find medical men prescribing the employment of leeches, and consequently calling in the assistance of certain parasitical animals?
48010Does not this animal fulfil in the egg of the sterlet, the same office as the histriobdella in the egg of the lobster?
48010Had the Ichthyosauri and the Plesiosauri worms in their spiral coecum like plagiostomous fishes, which resemble them so much in the digestive tube?
48010Has nature accustomed us to such profusion?
48010Have they fallen from the sky completely formed?
48010Have we not known the time when all maladies were supposed to yield to the action of leeches, and do we not see the good effects of their application?
48010How is it introduced?
48010Is it a mother and an enclosed daughter, as is the case with aphides, or is the ciliated envelope merely a cloak?
48010Is it a worm which lives in freedom here, and parasitically elsewhere?
48010Is it the same with worms and animals of other classes which are only known in the condition of parasites?
48010Is it then merely a messmate?
48010Is this a species of worm new to science?
48010Is this difference the result of the different kinds of food taken from the roots and the leaves?
48010Is this fish the messmate of the shark to which he is attached?
48010May I be permitted to state by what means we have arrived at the knowledge of the transmigration of worms?
48010Should an organ infested with worms be considered diseased, simply on account of their presence?
48010Should this worm be placed among messmates?
48010There exists also a river species; but have not different worms been confounded under this name?
48010This worm is evidently a_ Rhabditis_, but is it that which lives in the earth, or an allied species?
48010To whom do the manufacturers of Verviers or of Lyons, of Ghent or of Manchester, apply for their raw materials?
48010Under what conditions do those crabs, called by naturalists Pinnotheres, and which we do not find elsewhere, inhabit mussels?
48010We often ask ourselves what can be the use of these little creatures-- what good purpose can be effected by vermin which annoy everybody?
48010Were there cysticerci of different kinds in the peritoneum of the rabbit?
48010What is the part which it plays?
48010Whence came these_ Tæniæ cucumerinæ_?
48010Whence come they?
48010Who has not admired the ingenious construction of the beehive or of the ant- hill, or the delicate and marvellous structure of the spider''s web?
48010Who has not been annoyed by the flea, which abandons for an instant the dog, its natural host?
48010Who is there that does not nourish some acari, of the genus_ Simonea_, in the membrane of the nose?
48010and ought we to feel surprised that the theory of spontaneous generation was so long taught in the physiological schools?
7446What does it matter?
7446A long body, wonderfully slim at the waist, bright yellow legs and thorax, and a dark crimson abdomen,--what object can be prettier to look at?
7446And yet, to one acquainted with these lovers of brief phrases, what more intelligible answer could have been returned?
7446But how about the larger species, used as food, and which have had a longer and sadder experience of man''s destructive power?
7446Can it be believed that these late visitors to the Falklands were breeders in Patagonia, and had migrated east to winter in so bleak a region?
7446Can we not say as much of the horse?
7446Do they really breed in Patagonia?
7446Have all young birds a similarly discriminating instinct with regard to their enemies?
7446How does nature protect the skunk itself from the injurious effects of its potent fluid?
7446Is the female, then, without an instinct so common r-- has she no sudden fits of irrepressible gladness?
7446It is plain that these birds have been drawn from over an immense area to one spot; and the question is how have they been drawn?
7446It was not strange then that when I saw this small bird the question rose to my mind, what kind of nest does it build?
7446The question then arises, how did this unnecessary fear, so universal in swallows, originate?
7446The question then arises: Does the wild jungle fowl possess the same pernicious instinct?
7446They offered me a skin-- what more could I want?
7446What is the meaning of such an instinct?
7446Who that has travelled for eighteen days on a dead level in a broiling sun can resist a hill?
7446Why do these southern birds winter so far south?
27285But did n''t your father go to sea?
27285By this wing which I send you,she began,"can you tell me the name of the bird that owned it?"
27285Did he come over when you did?
27285Do you know why they call that Turkey Hill?
27285How old do you think he is?
27285Pigeons?
27285Sha n''t I take your coat?
27285The human nature of plants,--have I any reader so innocent as not to feel at this moment the appropriateness of the phrase?
27285There are more than that in Provincetown?
27285What do you call him?
27285What on earth can this crazy thing be shooting about my ears in this style for?
27285Who lives there?
27285Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness?
27285Why could n''t_ we_ have found those plovers, instead of that fellow?
27285Why did n''t you take it?
27285Your fathers, where are they?
27285), or the latest novelty in willows?
27285And what was the object of the male''s watch?
27285As I review what I have written, I am tempted to exclaim with Tennyson:--"And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?"
27285But he forgot one thing, and when his mother asked him, as of course she did, for mothers are all alike,"Did you thank the gentleman?"
27285But where?
27285But who could ever feel toward it as toward the gentian?
27285But who in New England has ever seen any grand army of them actually on the wing?
27285But, if so, why did I hear nothing from her, as I passed up and down?
27285Can the highest angel be as far above the lowest man?
27285Can there be one so favored as not to have some unmistakable thistles among his Christian townsmen and acquaintance?
27285Could anything be more characteristic of human nature than just such inconsistencies?
27285Could such truancy be habitual with the male ruby- throat?
27285Could that combination have been fortuitous?
27285Discard the golden- rod for the gentian, and in turn forsake the gentian for the twin- flower?
27285Do they straggle along so loosely as to escape particular notice?
27285Does he like this dog- day morning, with its alternate shower and sunshine, and its constant stickiness and heat?
27285For one instant I thought, Can it be the Philadelphia vireo?
27285Had I stumbled upon a regular route of swallow migration?
27285Had they moved away?
27285Had this strange thing happened?
27285Has the duty of non- resistance no exceptions nor abatements in the vegetable kingdom?
27285He had heard of the roost, apparently( how and where?
27285How can one expect to be famous unless he takes a little pains to keep himself before the public?
27285How could I doubt that Providence itself had set me a summer lesson?
27285How did it know I was to pass that way on Christmas afternoon, and by what sort of freemasonry did it attract my attention?
27285How early in the season does this nightly flocking begin?
27285How was it to be explained?
27285If his mate and nest were not within view from his ash- tree perch, what could be the meaning of his conduct?
27285If so, what mean congregations like that in the Ipswich dunes?
27285Is it a mark of strength or of weakness?
27285Is it a reminiscence merely, a final flickering of the candle, or is it rather a prophecy of life yet to come?
27285Is it then an unpardonable misdemeanor for a plant to defend itself against attack and extermination?
27285Is such a course of action habitual with male hummers?
27285It may have been the recreant husband and father, unable longer to deny himself a look at his bairns,--who knows?
27285Or are their grand concerted flights taken at such an altitude as to be invisible?
27285Or had my eyes deceived me?
27285Otherwise, how would the earth ever be clothed with verdure?
27285Otherwise, why had they never sought admission to the more imposing and, as I take it, more fashionable orthodox sanctuary?
27285That would be indeed a hard saying; for what would become of our universal favorite, the rose?
27285The majority is wiser than the minority, of course; otherwise, what becomes of its divine and inalienable right to lay down the law?
27285The thrushes have gone?
27285They are impatient to be gone, I say; but who knows how many of them are gone already?
27285Was I interested in humming- birds?
27285Was it a mere coincidence that these swallows, bluebirds, and robins were all crossing the valley just at this point?
27285Was the heron curious, as well as his pursuer?
27285What could I make of all this?
27285What could I say, having had an aching tooth before now myself?
27285What is beauty for, if not to be admired?
27285What knew he of the beauties of the picture at which I was gazing?
27285What means this strange revival of youth in age?
27285What shall we say of this habit of variability?
27285What should a man do?
27285What warbler could that be?
27285What was he doing?
27285What would winter be worth without the naked branches of maples and elms, beeches and oaks?
27285Where are the blue golden- winged warblers that sang daily on the edge of the wood opposite my windows, so that I listened to them at my work?
27285Where have you been so long?
27285Where shall we hear better preaching, more searching comment upon life and death, than in this same cathedral?
27285Where was his mate?
27285Whether they have any less sensuous motive for loving to wander over such heights, who will presume to determine?
27285Which is nobler,--to be true to one''s ideal in spite of circumstances, or to conquer circumstances by suiting one''s self to them?
27285Who could ask a better stimulus for his imagination than the annual southing of this mighty host?
27285Who knows but by lifelong fellowship with it I may absorb something of its virtue?
27285Who knows, I say, how many such summer friends have already left us?
27285Who shall decide?
27285Who shall forbid us to hope that what is true of the violet will prove true also of the man?
27285Who would have believed that an assembly of thousands could break up so quietly?
27285Why go to a mountain- top to look at warblers and thrushes?
27285Why not accept the pleasing invitation, which seemed meant on purpose for just such an idle pedestrian as myself?
27285Why should he be imposed upon, simply because he was small?
27285Why, then, should not here and there a man take up the business of walking, of wearing out shoes?
27285Wood is one of the precious metals on Cape Cod, and if oars are used for fence- rails, and fish- nets for hen- coops, why not laths for bean- poles?
27285Would he go back to his cradle for the night?
27285Would smoking be offensive to me?
27285Yet by what possibility could I have been so deceived?
27285that was where you got rich, was it?"
56507( 2 Genera?
56507( 3 Genera, 5 Species?)
56507( 52 Genera(?
56507(?
56507), Australia, New Zealand, and Chatham Island, with one species(?)
56507), Australia, Solomon Islands, and(?)
56507), Darjeeling in the winter,?
56507), Ethiopian and Oriental regions, Austro- Malaya, South America(?
56507), Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, with a species in the Ganges, in Siam, and(?)
56507), North and South America and Cape of Good Hope;( 220- 232? 234)_ Atticora_( 8 sp.
56507), the Neotropical region and?
56507)|(?
56507)|(?
56507)|--| 1|(?
56507)|--|--|(?
56507-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------||||| 1---- 4?
565074|-- 2?
565074|---- 3?
565074|------? 4|1.
56507Atlapetes| 1| Mexico| Nearctic?
56507DISTRIBUTION.--Rivers of the Oriental region, one species from Ceram(?).
56507Its position is uncertain, as it has affinities both with the Accipitres, through_ Polyboroides_(?)
56507Mugillidæ||(?
56507Phocidæ|--|||(?
56507Scienidæ|(?
56507Symbranchidæ||--||| Oriental, Australian,|||||(?
56507The genera of Catodontidæ as given by Dr. Gray are,_ Catodon_( 2 species?
56507The genus_ Nasua_, or the coatis( 5 species?
56507_ Cupidonia_?
56507_ Cynopithecus_(?
56507_ Halicore_( 2 species?
56507_ Hapalidæ_||--|(?
56507_ Myrmecophaga_| 1| Costa Rica?,&||| N.
56507_ Nesopsar_| 1| Jamaica|( Scolecophagus| 1| Mexico, Cuba?)
56507_ Potamochoerus_( 3 species?
56507_ Rhamphocinclus_--|--|--|--|--| 1| 1| Martinique and St.|||||||| Lucia_ Cinclocerthia_|--|--|--|--|--| 3| 3| Nevis to St. Lucia Mimus| 1| 1|--| 1|(?
56507_ Trochilus_| 2| The whole region| Mexico to Veragua|||(?
56507_ Xenurus_| 3| Guiana to Paraguay,||| Costa Rica?
56507||||||||_ Dulus_|(?
22129And are you aware of the amount of damage which you do to the poor, struggling farmer?
22129And father?
22129And you really like corn better than anything?
22129But hawks would never come near the towns?
22129But why on earth,I protested,"ca n''t you build a proper nest for yourself?"
22129Can Life be Indefinitely Prolonged? 22129 Could there be better method of defence?
22129Did you ever_ shriek_?
22129Do you know anything about sparrows?
22129Do you know what a_ clutch_ is?
22129Do you like mice?
22129Have you any clutches by you?
22129Have you any nuts?
22129Have you ever heard me sing?
22129I see,said I;"but what about the entrance being plastered up?"
22129Meaning?
22129Suppose the martins got the pull over the sparrows, do you think it would be better for things in general?
22129Well,_ one_ of you had to be the odd egg, I suppose?
22129What about the pheasants?
22129What bird would you prefer?
22129What did you have to eat?
22129What happened then?
22129What has happened then?
22129What of summer?
22129What on earth do you mean by that?
22129What think the caterpillars?
22129What was I saying when you interrupted me?
22129What was the nest like?
22129What''s pretty?
22129What, again, of weed seeds in general, and knotgrass in particular? 22129 What, awake?"
22129What_ is_ an odd egg?
22129Where is it?
22129Where is there tunnel- builder like myself? 22129 Who talks of burrows?"
22129Why did n''t you nibble the ends off?
22129Why load yourself with spines? 22129 Will you hear an amphibian?"
22129You can get corn all the year round?
22129You do really drive away the martins, I suppose?
22129_ Squeaked_, surely?
22129***** Better, after all, to have never finished the journey, and, yet, why should he complain?
22129And mother?
22129And the harvest mice?
22129And yet, do you know that there has been more ink spilt over sparrows than over any other bird?
22129Are trees the fashionable quarter just now?"
22129Brutal, was n''t it?
22129Can you grudge him a few paltry millions?
22129Could he block the hole?
22129Did n''t I tell you that I was the odd egg myself?"
22129Did n''t you make a store?"
22129Did two tunnels converge by chance?
22129Do you call that singing?"
22129Do you think every one spends their life grubbing after ground beetles?"
22129Even so, where should he rush to?
22129Had he not seen four of them combine and rout a weasel?
22129Had she made a nest?
22129Have n''t you finished moulting, hedgehog?"
22129Have you ever heard a cricket''s serenade?
22129Have you ever heard a tree- creeper talking to itself?
22129His colour?
22129His ears?
22129His eyes?
22129His feet?
22129His tail?
22129How did they take it?"
22129How have I survived it all?
22129How should they?
22129How would some of your plants get on if there were n''t enough insects to fertilize them?"
22129How would you recognize their remains, O sapient sparrow- shooters?
22129Nothing but a rat could have heard that; it was certainly a rat, but who?
22129Of himself, did I say?
22129Oh, it''s your first hibernation, is it?
22129One can understand the making of the first hole, but the making of the second?
22129Rats had done such things before now, but it was only deferring the evil hour, and what time would he have to do it in?
22129Should he make a rush for it before the enemy had regained courage?
22129Sooner or later she would find her way inside-- and then?
22129Suppose his leaf was torn from its socket and hurled a hundred yards into the field?
22129The vole was not so far wrong after all, for could anything, whose intelligence was otherwise than laughable, be in his present plight?
22129Was he likely to find an exit amid altogether strange surroundings?
22129Was he not the intruder?
22129What burrow is too small for it?
22129What do the people who write books know about sparrows?
22129What do you think of that?"
22129What had he said to her?
22129What is the one unfailing, all- sufficing trick?
22129What is to be the end of it?"
22129What made her change her mind at the eleventh tree?
22129What made him quit the water altogether?
22129What monster, think you, would an elephant, built for burrowing, be?
22129What rodent has a chance against them?
22129What says the water- rat?"
22129What_ good_ do you do?"
22129Whence had she come?
22129Where can you find fiercer courage than mine; where, bulk for bulk, more mighty strength?
22129Where would they come in against a hare?"
22129Which of you defies the fox or terrier in the open?
22129Who can thread the woods like me?
22129Who was she?
22129Why did that curved wire rattle about when he touched it?
22129Why does a dog naturally go for a cat?
22129Why is the spiral made?
22129Why not fly like me?"
22129Would you exterminate him because in your blindness you only note the debit side?
22129Would you like to know the truth of the matter?"
22129Would you pit yourself against me, hedgehog?"
22129[ Illustration: HIS EYES?
22129[ Illustration:"WHAT, AWAKE?"
22129[ Illustration:"WILL YOU HEAR AN AMPHIBIAN?"
22129and when was ever mercy accorded to such among four- footed things?
22129did they converge by design?
22129he cried,"is it time?"
22129or was the second made by some colossal rat, stretched at full length, and trusting his life to his superhuman hearing?
22129that associations have been formed to exterminate sparrows?
22129that laws innumerable have been passed concerning sparrows?
22129what matter whose?
35062And if so, where is it kept?
35062And leave them where any pilfering jay would be able to pick them out at his ease?
35062And what do we find?
35062And where the evidence of design is so convincing must we not believe that there was a Designer?"
35062Are chestnuts ever laid up for winter?
35062But first, in how many ways is it possible for a bird to use his tail as a prop?
35062But if a little is good, why are not all the pairs used as props?
35062But what is the use of all this work?
35062But where does so much tongue come from?
35062But why does he spend so much time in making holes?
35062Can the bird pick as well as he could with a sharp point?
35062Can we estimate the amount of work required to lay up one day''s food?
35062Did He wind it up like a watch to go till it should run down?
35062Did he always pick out the poor little one that had none the time before, I wonder?
35062Did not God make all kinds of creatures in the beginning?
35062Did she promise him?
35062Did you ever think what an inconvenience any tail at all must be in a woodpecker''s hole?
35062Did you ever wonder why they are as large at the bottom as at the top?
35062Do borers live in such straight little streets?
35062Do they take turns of equal length?
35062Do you say that a bird can not turn his toes about in this way?
35062Does it stretch like a piece of elastic cord?
35062Does one work more than the other?
35062Does the taste of the sap affect the taste of the fruit?
35062Does this look as if the bird were digging grubs?
35062First, how many shapes can any bird''s tail have?
35062For what?
35062Has God gone on a visit because these living creatures are looking out for themselves?
35062How can they go on being made without God?
35062How do I know that it was a sapsucker''s work?
35062How do songless birds express their emotions?
35062How does the woodpecker know that winter will come this year?
35062How far south is the habit kept up?
35062How long could he live on ten acorns?
35062How many kinds of birds have we that use their tails for a support?
35062How many must he gather for his winter''s needs?
35062How many must he lose by forgetting to come back to them?
35062How, then, is the woodpecker to do what we can not do?
35062II HOW THE WOODPECKER CATCHES A GRUB Did you ever see a hairy woodpecker strolling about a tree for what he could pick up?
35062Is he not both in his works and ways of working-- with the one exception of the Californian woodpecker-- more of a miner?
35062Is it observed beyond the limits of a regular and considerable snowfall?
35062Is it probable that he tries to raise a fine crop of grubs in this way?
35062Is the world a machine, or is it alive?
35062Is there a difference in the taste of the sap?
35062Is this theory true?
35062Might it not be a foot equally divided without reference to the number of toes?
35062Next, what variations in shapes do we observe among the woodpeckers themselves?
35062One point we have left unexplained: What is the advantage, if there is any, in the sharper curve to the tails of the arboreal woodpeckers?
35062Or did she find a gayer suitor?
35062Or is a part hidden somewhere?
35062Or is it merely a question of quantity?
35062Or put them in the track of every wandering squirrel?
35062Pick and drill, are they not?
35062Shall we believe it less because we find in the creatures about us intelligence and the power to care for their own lives?
35062Shall we grudge him a bone from our own abundance, or neglect to fasten it firmly out of reach of the cat and dog?
35062Suppose the nippers had one short jaw and one long one, would they then take as firm hold as they do with jaws of equal length?
35062That is, do the birds lay up their nuts in order to keep them out of the snow, or for some other reason?
35062Then came the question, is there any similarity in their use?
35062These are questions every one ought to ask, but-- did God leave his world after He had made it and go a long way off?
35062Was this sound bark?
35062Were they made less perfectly in the beginning because when new conditions surround them they are able to change to meet the strange requirements?
35062What are the miner''s tools?
35062What are the woodpecker''s?
35062What are their habits and what sort of tails have they?
35062What did he get?
35062What have we proved?
35062What is his object?
35062What is it that especially fits it for climbing?
35062What is the advantage of this compressed tip?
35062What shall we do with him, the only black sheep in all the woodpecker flock?
35062What should be the cause of such a remarkable change when all conditions of growth have remained the same?
35062What was he doing?
35062What was the essential point?
35062Where could the bird find half- grown grasshoppers?
35062Which positions bring most feathers into use?
35062Which shall we call the woodpecker-- a carpenter or a miner?
35062Who does not know how mice and chipmunks hide their food?
35062Who does not remember the articles his pet Jim Crow stole and lost to him forever?
35062Who has not watched the blue jay skulking off to hide an acorn where he will be sure to forget it?
35062Who knows how long they work before resting?
35062Who knows how many kinds of nuts the red- head eats?
35062Why are not the tips of the feathers stiffer?
35062Why did the bird dig these holes?
35062Why do the drilling woodpeckers have a perfectly straight bill?
35062Why is a flicker''s bill better for being curved also?
35062Why is it so rounded?
35062Why may not the two observed instances of the Lewis''s woodpecker be examples of a similar habit just beginning?
35062Why may we not suppose as a basis and a spur to further investigation that the others also are acquiring ways new and strange?
35062Why should it be strange if their minds were alike too?
35062Why should there not be such individuals among birds?
35062Would it not be better if the woodpecker''s tail had been cut square across and made of feathers equally rigid and ending in short stiff spines?
35062XVI THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN But if the birds are making themselves into new species, where is the place for God in the universe?
35062[ Illustration] How do I know that a bird caused it to fall?
35062he laughed; or"Are you all right, children?"
35062if they had a natural bent toward accumulativeness, and a natural desire to try new wrinkles?
35062or that it showed a far more skillful one, since he could make a living, self- regulating, adaptive watch?
9501''Et de quoi? 9501 For when I play with my cat,"says Montaigne,"how do I know whether she does not make a jest of me?"
9501And what more delightful word did ever Miss Repplier write than her description of a kitten?
9501And who knows, if he had spoken, what light he might have shed on what seemed to mere mortals as mysterious, abstruse, and occult problems?
9501Ca n''t you get me one?"
9501Can it be that Richelieu has been given credit for Colbert''s virtues?
9501Do you remember Arnold''s Scholar Gypsy?
9501Does this not suggest a charming glimpse of the poet''s English home?
9501Du rôti du roi?''
9501Have n''t you had breakfast enough?"
9501How better than by applying it to our cats can we demonstrate the truth of Solomon''s maxim,"A merciful man is merciful to his beast"?
9501How do cats tell the hour of day, anyway?
9501I knew Zara and Selima( Selima was it, or Fatima?
9501I was busy, and at first paid no attention to her; but she grew more persistent, so that I finally laid down my letters and asked:"What is it, Puss?
9501In a house full of birds Muff never touched one, although he was an excellent mouser( who says cats have no conscience?).
9501Is n''t this a truly horrible creature?"
9501Is not a soft, white- breasted maltese or tabby as attractive?
9501Lucifer seldom purrs-- I wonder if that is a characteristic of black cats?"
9501Our Scot was his feline equivalent.... Have you counted in Prosper Merimà © e among the confirmed lovers of cats?
9501Since long before Whittington became Lord Mayor of London, indeed, cats have been popular in England: for did not the law protect them?
9501The parrot, seeing its danger, said in a bass voice as grave and deep as M. Prudhomme''s own,''As tu dà © jeunà ©, Jacquot?''
9501What ails that old cat, anyway?"
9501What did she say?
9501Who has not read Agnes Repplier''s fascinating essays on"Agrippina"and"A Kitten"?
9501Who would not be a cat of Louis Wain''s, capable of creating ten minutes''sunshine in a childish heart?"
9501Why do n''t you fix it?"
9501Why, why was pigeon''s flesh so nice, That thoughtless cats should love it thus?
9501Would your cat do as much for you, I''d like to know?''
9501Yet why should he?
9501exclaimed one and another, until he sat up coyly and cocked his head one side as if to say:--"Oh, now, do you really think I look pretty?"
8729200,?
8729205,?
87295?
8729Are green and red distinguishable?
8729Are these statements true for the group of one hundred individuals whose distribution among the three classes of whirlers has been given?
8729Are we therefore to infer that it is less intelligent, that it is less docile, than the cat, the raccoon, or the monkey?
8729As might have been anticipated(?
8729At this point we may very fittingly ask, what sense data are necessary for the guidance of the series of acts which constitutes the labyrinth habit?
8729But what of the interpretation of the results in terms of Weber''s law?
8729CHAPTER IX THE SENSE OF SIGHT: COLOR VISION Is the dancing mouse able to discriminate colors as we do?
8729Can a dancer learn a given labyrinth path the more readily because it has previously had experience in another form of labyrinth?
8729Can a habit be re- acquired with greater facility than it was originally acquired?
8729Can the dancer distinguish white from black; light gray from dark gray; two grays which are almost of the same brightness?
8729Can the dancer learn a regular labyrinth path more quickly than an irregular one?
8729Cyon''s belief raises the interesting question, are the mice normal or abnormal, healthy or pathological?
8729Does it possess anything which may properly be called color vision?
8729Does the dancer follow the path by sight, touch, smell, by all, or by no one of them?
8729Does the dancer transmit to its offspring the tendency to whirl in a definite manner?
8729Does this law, in any form, hold for the brightness vision of the dancing mouse?
8729He asks, therefore, does this mean that the males lack a voice or that they are less sensitive than the females?
8729How shall we answer the question?
8729If so, what is the nature of its ability in this sense field?
8729If this were not true, how are the results of Table 16 to be accounted for?
8729Is re- learning easier than learning?
8729Is this to be accounted for in terms of inheritance?
8729The question is, can they, under favorable conditions of illumination, be perceived by the dancer?
8729The question which I asked was, can the dancer discriminate by means of this difference in visual form?
8729The question which the experimenter asked in connection with this test really is, Can a dancer learn to go to the white box and thus avoid discomfort?
8729Therefore we are still confronted with the question, can they see colors?
8729Was this due to inability to learn so complex a path, or to the fact that the method is not adapted to their nature?
8729What are we to conclude from this?
8729What do these records indicate concerning the influence of individually acquired forms of behavior upon the behavior of the race?
8729What does this mean?
8729What further evidence is to be had?
8729What is the role of sight in the dancing mouse?
8729in Change in Ears Auditory Reactions Litter Behavior Open Appear Disappear 152+ 151 5 13th day 14th day 14th day 16th day 152+ 15l 8(?)
16255''Ca n''t I shine up Bessie''s and the admiral''s cages?'' 16255 ''Do you like to go to school?''
16255''Have you a parrot, Jeannette?'' 16255 ''How do you do, my dears?''
16255''What''s your cat''s name?'' 16255 ''Why?''
16255''Would n''t his tail be sweet on a Sunday hat?'' 16255 ''You are not Johnny Morris''schoolmates, are you?''
16255Afraid of the god?
16255Air they getting scarce?
16255And did n''t you get any?
16255And the birdies too?
16255Beetles? 16255 Bugs?
16255But do you think as many are used now as formerly?
16255But supposing it was n''t a canary,said Polly hesitatingly;"supposing it might be a redbird, or a wren, or-- or----""Or a bobolink?"
16255But what would the wimmen do without bunnet trimmen''if we did n''t kill''em, hey?
16255But why are they so cruel? 16255 Can we never get away from this millinery exhibition of death?"
16255Did n''t I say I would n''t have it?
16255Did n''t I tell you?
16255Did she like you?
16255Did you ever see Johnny afterward?
16255Do n''t you feel sorry for it, Aunt Dorothy?
16255Do n''t you know that a hen that''s all the time skeered wo n''t lay?
16255Do you know that the redwing is equally as useful, and besides he is a delightful singer? 16255 Do you reckon it''s sick?"
16255Do you remember that line, colonel?
16255Do you suppose your father would know?
16255Do you think it is so very wicked to keep-- that is, to-- to deprive a bird of its liberty?
16255Fashion, what is that?
16255Fit for a king, eh? 16255 Goodness, child, is that the piece you want to read?"
16255Has he any men slaves?
16255He does?
16255His slaves are nearly always rich women, are n''t they?
16255How did you happen to get away from the Morrises?
16255How is it useful to him?
16255How many churches have you in these mountains?
16255I wonder if we are the geese?
16255I wonder what my good luck is going to be?
16255If a family consume a barrel of flour in nine weeks, what part of a barrel will they use in one week, Matilda?
16255If not the cat, what enemy is it?
16255If that youngster belonged to me for about twenty minutes, would n''t I give her something wholesome that she''d remember? 16255 If the chain is so heavy why do n''t they break it?"
16255Is it a bug or a beetle?
16255Is it anything like the scurfy- bark louse?
16255Is n''t it perfectly horrid for him to talk like that? 16255 Monopolize?"
16255Oh, Caleb, did you catch it?
16255Oh, Nell, do n''t you dislike to have anybody lecture you like that? 16255 So we have; but what avails our opportunity if our eyes are blinded so that we do not see it?"
16255Tuesday''s paper?
16255What about the slaves who rebel at first and afterward yield?
16255What d''ye suppose he is?
16255What is it?
16255What kind of resolutions?
16255What''s the use of keeping it? 16255 Where did you get acquainted with him, then?''
16255Who was he?
16255Why are they branded?
16255Women and dear little children our enemies?
16255Would they not use one- ninth of a bushel? 16255 Yes, tell us; what was it, pop?"
16255You like butterflies too, do n''t you, aunty?
16255You think the oriole too gay? 16255 You''re a drummer for a publishing house, I take it?"
16255''Are n''t you going to help to decorate?''
16255''How did you happen to select such names for them?''
16255''Will you make yourselves quite at home and help me to entertain these other visitors till Johnny comes in?
16255Among the inquiries was:"What is your greatest weakness?"
16255And a moment after, Alice met the bold, defiant look of the boy himself, which seemed to say,"Well, what are you going to do about it?
16255And what did I see?
16255And what would her hat look like without that bird on it, I''d like to know?
16255As she bowled along the friend asked enthusiastically:"Is it not splendid?"
16255But who could study on a morning like this, with the delicious warbling of the birds sounding in one''s ears?
16255Children, do you know there is a society whose members pledge themselves to protect the birds?
16255Did not all this prove her to be sweet and tender and loving and gentle and kind?
16255Did other people really prize squirrels and frogs and lightning bugs and such things?
16255Did you ever notice those borers at work, colonel?
16255Did you ever?
16255Did you want it for any special purpose?"
16255Do n''t you know that childish thoughtlessness on a subject as important as the needless taking of life argues tremendously against us?
16255Do they want to be regarded as irresponsible children forever?
16255Do you know papa pretends it''s wicked for women to wear birds on their hats or trim their gowns with feather trimming?
16255Had they no compassion for the feathered mother who had been robbed of her young for the sake of a hat?
16255How could they abuse it and take its life?"
16255How many would they use in one week?"
16255I notice that the Australian government is-- Do you girls know where Australia is?"
16255I suppose she could n''t think of anything new to say, so she observed:"''It''s a nice warm day for the first of September, do n''t you think?''
16255I wonder if Miss Harper knows?"
16255I wonder whether it really understands us?"
16255If women must have feathers, why ca n''t they content themselves with wearing ostrich tips and plumes?
16255If you ate a carload of watermelons in nine days, what part of a carload would you eat in one day?"
16255Instead of persisting, she only said reproachfully, as she put me back on my perch:"Dear Dickey Downy, why are you afraid of me?
16255Is n''t that a horrible record for women?"
16255Is that it, Jeannette?''
16255Might not one"as well be out of the world as out of the fashion"?
16255My brother broke the silence by asking,"Are there any Christian women who wear birds, and are among the god''s worshipers?"
16255Oh, girls, would n''t a row of ladybirds for buttons be pretty on my waist?"
16255Was n''t he, aunty?"
16255What d''ye ask for this bird?"
16255What d''ye think of that?"
16255What do you call your cats, Jeannette?''
16255What if it does hurt it?"
16255What on earth did she let her take those big black wings for?
16255What part of it will you eat in one day?"
16255What would you think of a bird taking a bareback ride on a cow?
16255Where do you suppose Johnny scraped up all these youngsters?
16255Who''d''a thought of meeting company this far back in these mountains?"
16255Why do they do this wicked thing?"
16255Would not the forests be robbed of half their beauty and interest if the squirrels and chipmunks and birds and butterflies were killed off?"
16255Would they deprive us of life?"
16255Would you think the woman who wore that bunch of feathers on her bonnet could take much pleasure in it?
16255You are familiar with their habits?
16255You would n''t call them bugs, would you?"
16255eighty- one barrels?
16255why are not all boys as gentle as John Charles?"
25918A singular name,said somebody,"for a beautiful pet, madam; where did you find it?"
25918Am I,said he, indignantly,"to be teased by the barking of this_ jackal_, while I am attacking the royal_ tiger_ of Bengal?
25918But,said Lady D----, with a stately air,"do you know who I am?"
25918Did any of you ever see an elephant''s skin?
25918Have you dates, plantains, and soursops-- so sweet-- at Sarawak, Master Redhair? 25918 Have you got five guineas?
25918How long have you been in Cambridge?
25918I doubt na whyles, but thou may thieve; What then? 25918 Is thy servant a_ dog_ that he should do this thing?"
25918One:''Is your master at home, Paddy?'' 25918 Phat''s keeping out the licht, fayther?"
25918Pray, George,said he one day to Mr G. Nicol, the bookseller to the king, with whom he was very intimate,"have you got any money in your pocket?"
25918Sir Isaac,said the king,"are you a judge of horses?"
25918Tell me,writes Elia,"what your Sidneyites do?
25918There are but three,said a native of the place, who knew them well;"the Black Bull, the White Bull, and the Red Bull,--where is the fourth?"
25918What might it be, sir, if I may be so bold?
25918Where is he?
25918Where?
25918Why not? 25918 Why, boys,"said he,"how is it that none of you can ride?"
25918You ask me''If we are to have another volume of essays?'' 25918 [ 105] Horace Walpole, in 1774, thus refers to Margaret, in a letter to Lady Ossory:--"Who is to have the care of the dear mouse in your absence?
25918[ 161]***** Mr McDougall? 25918 [ 282]***** A Scotch lady, who was discomposed by the introduction of gas, asked with much earnestness,"What''s to become o''the_ puir whales_?''
25918''Can this,''he said to the physicians,''last long?''
25918''Pray, sir, which of my estates should you like to have?''"
25918''What is to pay?''
25918--"And, pray, what is that?"
25918--"Are you quite sure he never bites?"
25918--"Did ye?"
25918--"Does your lordship mean,"answered Lord Bradford,"a live sheep or a dead sheep?"
25918--"Halves in what?"
25918--"In my younger days, please your majesty, I was a great deal among them,"was the reply.--"What do you think of this, then?"
25918--"Is it not the same thing?"
25918--"Sure and do you not know, the Dun Cow-- the best of them all?"
25918--"Wasn''t yer Riverence appaising the dogs?"
25918--"Well, sir,"said the farmer,"what of that?
25918--"Yes, that''s well, John; now, what do n''t you know?"
25918--''How so?''
25918--''No horse?
25918--''Pay, sir, for what?''
25918--''Well,''said Lord Sidmouth,''but why not be content with another?
25918--''Your horse, sir?
25918295 SHEEP AND GOAT 295 How many Legs has a Sheep?
25918A judge, joking a young barrister, said--"If you and I were turned into a horse and an ass, which would you prefer to be?"
25918Are they th- v- ng all day long?
25918As a good example of the Scottish variety, who is there that does not know Dean Ramsay''s"Reminiscences?"
25918But was the latter made from calves''feet?
25918But what old favourite dog or even bird is there that any one would part with?
25918But what will you think when I tell you that it is the skull of_ Julius Cæsar_ when he was a little boy?"
25918But who can bear his voice?
25918Does n''t the place afford every convenience that_ a pig can require_?
25918Dr Forbes Winslow asks,"Who has not seen Liston''s favourite cat Tom?
25918HOW MANY LEGS HAS A SHEEP?
25918He asked Mr Gilpin how he came to have so many cows when he had so little land?
25918Highly enraged,"Sir,"says he to the farmer,"do you know, sir, that I have been at the two universities, and at two colleges in each university?"
25918How is that poor little, red- saddled, long- eared creature to carry you?
25918How many of their wranglers have ever distinguished themselves in the world?
25918I am growing a great cat; pray how do you come on?
25918Is not that cruel?
25918Is that a dog or a fox?''"
25918Is that cruelty to dowgs?
25918Is there to be one for you and another for your legs?
25918Mock I thee in wishing weal?
25918Of modern describers of the very life and feelings of dogs, who can surpass Dr John Brown of Edinburgh?
25918On another occasion, we passed some camels grazing at such a distance from the Nile, that I asked the Arab attending where they went to drink?
25918On returning to his place, the clergyman, who was rather an absent man, asked the clerk,"Where was I a while ago?"
25918Sergent, turning round, enraged and furious, exclaimed,''_ Madam, have you no humanity?_''"ARCTIC VOYAGER AND THE LEMMING.
25918She instantly, conceiving I was thrown, if not killed, rushed down to the man, exclaiming,''Where is he?--where is your master?--is he hurt?''
25918Still more agitated by his silence, she exclaimed,''Is he hurt?
25918The deposit was of such a singular nature, that we asked the quaint- looking gatherer how he supposed they came there?
25918The gardener took Reynard to the doctor, when he exclaimed,"Why did you not call me up in the night, that I might have set the leg?"
25918The master of the dog asked him why he had not rather struck the dog with the butt- end of his weapon?
25918The poor raccoon, noticing the gun pointed at him, cried to the dead shot,"Air_ you_ General Scott?"
25918The question was, on which side of the island was the rabbit''s hole?
25918Weel, then, wha kens that the fox isna away snorin''happy afore the houn''s?
25918What home landscape like that painted by Alfred Tennyson would be perfect without its cows?
25918Where was the dog''s master?
25918Who has not some faithful black Topsy, Tortoise- shell, or Tabby, or rather succession of them, whose biographies would afford many a curious story?
25918_ North._ But the fox, James?
25918_ North._ But the fox, James?
25918_ North._ But the fox, James?
25918_ North._ But the fox, James?
25918_ North._ Is he a bit of a poet?
25918_ North._ Think you, James, that he is a link?
25918_ North._ Was ye ever in at a death?
25918_ North._ Why, James, by this time he must be quite like one of the family?
25918_ Shepherd._ A link in creation?
25918_ Shepherd._ Isna he?
25918_ Shepherd._ To wham?
25918_ Tickler._ What fish, James, would you incline to be, if put into scales?
25918_ Tickler._ Why do n''t you bring him to Ambrose''s?
25918how are the children_ and your pigs_?
25918rejoined Mr Newton, with some sarcasm in his tone,''do you suppose, sir, there will be fleas in heaven?
25918said John;"wull ye haud my horse, sir?"
25918said he;"Lisette, do you also present me petitions?
25918she exclaimed;''does he really eat boys, Mr Smith?''
25918was his prompt question.--"Quite sure, sir,"rejoined the servant.--"Then,"rejoined the good- humoured doctor,"if he never_ bites_, how does he live?"
25918was the first question;"where is my guardian angel?"
25918what horse?
25918what property can stand against such a depredation?
25918you said the only thing this place wanted to make it perfect was deer; what do you say now?
39975Had I any drawings to show?
39975Pray, have you seen Mr. Audubon''s collections of birds? 39975 _ Not see Walter Scott?_"thought I;"I SHALL, if I have to crawl on all- fours for a mile!"
39975A gentleman soon came to me, and asked if perchance my name was Audubon?
39975Am I to lead this life long?
39975And why, have I thought a thousand times, should I not have kept to that delicious mode of living?
39975Are not we of America men?
39975Bank Swallows in sight this moment, with the weather thick, foggy, and an east wind; where are these delicate pilgrims bound?
39975Basil Hall think of a squatter''s hut in Mississippi in contrast with this?
39975But this is not all,--who,_ now_, will deny the existence of the Labrador Falcon?
39975But young heads are on young shoulders; it was not to be, and who cares?
39975Cloud ten hours,--they told us fifty thousand(?)
39975Comment va?"
39975Did he forget to question the all- knowing police, or did the gentleman at the Messageries exaggerate?
39975Did the ancient artists and colorists ever glaze their work?
39975Do men forget, or do they not know how swiftly time moves on?
39975Dost thou think I said"Yes"?
39975Had not his wondrous pen penetrated my soul with the consciousness that here was a genius from God''s hand?
39975Have we not the same nerves, sinews, and mental faculties which other nations possess?
39975Have you seen Barons Vacher and La Brouillerie?"
39975He said to me,"Why do not you write a little book telling what you have seen?"
39975Here we were detained nearly an hour; how would this work in the States?
39975How is it that our sages tell us our species is much improved?
39975How many must the multitude of Mormons inhabiting this island destroy daily?
39975I can not write at all, but if I could how could I make a_ little_ book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen_ large_ books?
39975I could relate many curious anecdotes about him, but never mind them; he made out to grow rich, and what more could_ he_ wish for?
39975I exclaimed,"why, who are they?"
39975I had seen each individual when toasted, rise, and deliver a speech; that being the case, could I remain speechless like a fool?
39975I heard the delightful song of the Ruby- crowned Wren again and again; what would I give to find the nest of this_ northern Humming- Bird_?
39975I saw upwards of twelve of Harris''new Finch(?)
39975I took my drawing of the Pheasant to Mr. Fanetti''s(?)
39975If a boy, it was,''Well, my little man,''or a little girl,''Good morning, lassie, how are you to- day?''
39975In the evening I visited Mr. Howe, the editor of the"Courant"and then to the theatre with Mr. Bridges to see Wairner(?)
39975Is it because the constant evidence of the contrast between the rich and the poor is a torment to me, or is it because of its size and crowd?
39975Is it not shocking that while in England all is hospitality_ within_, all is so different_ without_?
39975Is not this a curious story?
39975It is both amusing and distressing to see how inimical to each other men of science are; and why are they so?
39975It is dreadful to know of the want of bread here; will it not lead to the horrors of another revolution?
39975It is wonderful to me; am I, or is my work, deserving of all this?
39975Now is it not too bad that I can not do so, for want of talent?
39975Now what will not man do to deceive his brother?
39975Now, do those good gentlemen expect me to remain in Paris all my life?
39975Now, my Lucy, who could have thought to make a thing like that?
39975Now, my love, wouldst thou not believe me once more in the woods, hard at it?
39975One of these pictures is from my sketch of an Eagle pouncing on a Lamb,[156] dost thou remember it?
39975Query, is it the same which is found in Europe?
39975Query: how many amongst my now long list of subscribers will continue the work throughout?
39975Shall I ever again see and enjoy the vast forests in their calm purity, the beauties of America?
39975The Captain wishes to write a book, and he spoke of it with as little concern as I should say,"I will draw a duck;"is it not surprising?
39975The question presented was"Which was the more advantageous, the discovery of the compass, or that of the art of printing?"
39975The service and sermon were long and tedious; often to myself I said,"Why is not Sydney Smith here?"
39975To finish highly without destroying the general effect, or to give the general effect and care not about the finishing?
39975To the great and good man himself I can never say this, therefore he can never know it, or my feelings towards him-- but if he did?
39975Travelling wherever chance or circumstance may lead you?
39975Very different, is it not, from looking up a large decaying tree, watching the movements of a Woodpecker?
39975Was I inclined to cut my throat in foolish despair?
39975Was I to repine because I had acted like an honest man?
39975Was I to see my beloved Lucy and children suffer and want bread, in the abundant State of Kentucky?
39975We had coffee, and the company increased rapidly; amongst them all I knew only Captain Parry, M. de Condolleot(?
39975Well, is not this a long digression for thee?
39975Were those talents to remain dormant under such exigencies?
39975What brains he must have, and-- how long can he keep them?
39975What has since taken place?
39975What would I have been now if equally gifted by nature at that age?
39975What would be said to a gang of Wild Turkeys,--several hundred trotting along a sand- bar of the Upper Mississippi?
39975What would they say of a half- million of Robins about to take their departure for the North, making our woods fairly tremble with melodious harmony?
39975When the president entered Mr. Combe said:"I have here two gentlemen of talent; will you please tell us in what their natural powers consist?"
39975Where can I go now, and visit nature undisturbed?
39975Where is the time gone when I was considered one of the best of players?
39975Which way, pray, are you travelling?
39975Whilst I looked at this mass I thought, What have_ I_ done, compared with what this man has done, and has to do?
39975Who has not felt a sense of fear while trying to combine all this?
39975Who would have expected such things from the woods of America?"
39975Who, recalling her early married life, can wonder that she hesitated before leaving this home for the vicissitudes of an unknown city?
39975Why did Mrs. Trollope not visit Halifax?
39975Why do people make such errors with my simple name?
39975Will the result repay the exertions?
39975With her was I not always rich?
39975With the exception of Mr. Harris, all were engaged by Audubon, who felt his time was short, his duties many, while the man of seventy(?)
39975Yet, after all, who can say that it was not a material advantage, both to myself and to the world, that the Norway rats destroyed those drawings?"
39975_ June 18._ Is it not strange I should suffer whole weeks to pass without writing down what happens to me?
39975_ Why_ do I dislike London?
39975and why should not mankind in general be more abstemious than mankind is?
39975between us and them there existed a regular line of willows-- and who ever saw willows grow far from water?
39975can not I return to America?
39975canus_ as merely a straggler in North America, with the query,"accidental in Labrador?"
39975how can I bear the loss of our truest friend?
39975how dull I feel; how long am I to be confined in this immense jail?
39975was this the way to use a man who paid you so amply and so punctually?
39975what can I hope, my Lucy, for thee and for us all?
39975what good work is here, but most of the painters of these beautiful pictures are no longer on this earth, and who is there to keep up their standing?
533Abram Johnson, have you gone daft?
533Abram Johnson,she solemnly demanded,"have you got the power?"
533Abram,she asked, hesitatingly,"is there anything else I could do for-- your birds?"
533An''if it had n''t a- compassed a matter o''breakin''your word, what''ud you want to kill the redbird for, anyhow? 533 An''you call yourself a decent man, Abram Johnson?"
533D''you ever stop to think how full this world is o''things to love, if your heart''s jest big enough to let''em in? 533 Decent?
533Decent?
533Did you shoot at that redbird?
533Does n''t that beat you? 533 Hit''i m?"
533How d''you s''pose she''d feel if she knew there was a man here peekin''at her? 533 No?
533Since you are on my premises, might I be privileged to ask if you have seen a few signs''at I have posted pertainin''to the use of a gun?
533What on earth are you lookin''for? 533 ''Ud you mind tellin''me what was your idy in cookin''up that squirrel story?
533Ai n''t she got a right to be lovin''and tender?
533Ai n''t she got a right to pay him best she knows?
533An''I look like your friend?
533An''where are you, anyway?"
533An''you want me to keep it up?
533Are you tryin''to tell me` Howdy''?
533But then you WARNED me, did n''t you, old fellow?
533Come through by the special midnight flyer, did you?
533Did not the gentle dove pause by the sumac, when she left brooding to take her morning dip in the dust, and gaze at him with unconcealed admiration?
533Did you ever see jest quite such fine fringy willers?
533Do n''t you know you ai n''t nothin''but jest a target?
533Ever see anything so runnin''over with dainty, pretty, coaxin''ways?
533Ever think o''that?
533Feed you?
533Hardly think now''at I''ve the reputation o''being a mighty quiet fellow, would you?"
533Have you any to equal my grace?
533Have you got a sick friend who is needin''squirrel broth?"
533Have you seen any other of so great size?
533How d''ye find yerself this evenin''?
533How do you like it?
533Is that your news?"
533One night he said to his wife:"Maria, have you been noticin''the redbird of late?
533Should he go there seeking a swamp mate among his kindred?
533Should he, the proudest, most magnificent of cardinals, be compelled to go seeking a mate like any common bird?
533So you really are a pet?
533That was n''t true either?
533They were unusually fine babies, but what chance has merely a fine baby in a family that possesses a prodigy?
533Was it all to be wasted?
533Was it of necessity to be the Limberlost then?
533Was that broad full breast his?
533What do you think o''that?
533What matter that she took it with a snap, and plunged a quarter of a mile before eating it?
533When d''you arrive?
533Where had he seen any other cardinal with a crest so high it waved in the wind?
533Who are you, to come''long an''wipe out his joy in life, an''our joy in him, for jest nothin''?
533Who can whistle so loud, so clear, so compelling a note?
533Who do you think made this world an''the things''at''s in it?
533Who give you rights to go''round takin''such beauty an''joy out of the world?
533Who was this flaming dashing stranger, flaunting himself in the faces of their females?
533Who will come and be my mate?"
533Who will fly to me for protection?
533Why do n''t you keep out o''sight a little?
533Wonder if he''s any willinger to feed you an''stand up for you''an I am?"
533Wonder what I said?
533Young man, did you ever hear o''a boomerang?
56506?
56506Africa(?)
56506Africa, Spain[?
56506Calicalicus(?)
56506Calornis| 2|Malaya and Philippines|[?]
56506Canidæ|--|--|--|--|All regions but Australian[?]
56506China and Formosa|| Japan| migrants[?]
56506Cinclidæ?
56506Cranorrhinus?
56506Cynopithecus| 1|Celebes and Batchian|Philippines?
56506E. Africa, Ceylon{|| N. Africa| migrants(?)
56506Europe and N. Africa|India, winter{|| to Japan| migrants(?)
56506Europe to Japan;|Himalayas(?)
56506Europe to N. China|[?]
56506Euryceros(?)
56506Gymnopus[?]
56506Himalayas to Aracan,|Lombock, Timor?
56506Himalayas to|Palæarctic?
56506Hydrocissa?
56506India to Ceylon, and|Eastern Asia|| China;?
56506India{|| China|(?
56506It is also stated, that the pigeon and one of the small birds(?
56506Lynx[?]
56506Miro 2""""TIMALIIDÆ(?)
56506Muridæ_ Uromys_ 1 Aru Islands(?)
56506Oreicola| 4|Lombok to Timor|Burmah?
56506Oxylabes 2 CINCLIDÆ(?).
56506Pachyglossa?
56506Paridæ|--|--||--|Nearctic, Oriental, Australian|||||[?]
56506Pinicola[?]
56506Symbranchidæ|--||--|--|Australian(?
56506Thibet(?)
56506Trachinidæ||--|||Patagonia(?
56506Upupa(?)
56506Vesperugo| 1|Siberia, Amoorland|[?]
56506Zealand, Chatham||| Islands?
56506_ Artamia_[?]
56506_ Calictis_| 1|Ceylon?
56506_ Euryceros_| 1|Madagascar([?]
56506_ Hypherpes_ 1 PYCNONOTIDÆ(?)
56506_ Laniarius_| 38|All Africa,||| Madagascar[?]
56506_ Mesites_| 1|Madagascar|||| TROGLODYTIDÆ.[?]
56506_ Murina_| 2|Himalayas to Java|?
56506_ Noctulina_| 3|Nepal to Philippines|?
56506_ Otonycteris_| 1|Egypt|[?]
56506_ Oxylabes_| 2|Madagascar|||| CINCLIDÆ.[?]
56506_ Paradoxurus_| 8|The whole region|Ke Islands(?
56506_ Parmoptila_[?
56506_ Presbytes_| 28|Simla to Aracan and|Moupin, Palæarctic[?]
56506_ Trilatitus_| 2|Indo- Malaya|?
56506_ Æpyornis_| 3[?
56506and S. Africa|||([?]
56506{ Oreicola?
56506{_ Calamodus_|? 3|Europe, N. Africa,||| Palestine| 12.
56506| 3|Madagascar| 56._Cyanolanius_[?
56506|||[?]
56506||||||( Paradoxornis| 3|Himalayas and|(?
56506||||||( Viverra| 1|Celebes and Moluccas)|Oriental genus( Paradoxurus| 1|Timor, Ke Islands,?
18298After the nets have been withdrawn, what is it worth?
18298Again, can the fact of the weir which had a wall of this bottom- ice three feet high in a single night, be accounted for by radiation?
18298Again, why should the magistrates in quarter sessions( nine- tenths of whom know nothing of Salmon or Salmon rivers) choose the conservators?
18298An intelligent friend of mine, now in India, says that the pod of cotton is overhung by a brown leaf( bractea?
18298And if these objections really exist, then do they not equally exist in the rivers of Australia and Tasmania?
18298And is not the Salmon question one of public policy?
18298And why should not a man be allowed to fish with a rod and line below the weir, and as near to it as he chooses?
18298Are either of these leisters?
18298Are not gamekeepers as likely to need looking after as mill- owners?
18298Are the parties who saw these eggs quite certain that the fish was an Eel and not a Lamprey?
18298Are there any Salmon in North America, in any river( not a tributary of the St. Lawrence), south of that river?
18298As the net would not take a fish of less than two pounds, how many had passed through it?
18298Besides, did any one ever succeed in hatching the ova of a fish which had not been allowed to come in contact with milt after exclusion?
18298Besides, what is your object?
18298But how had they learnt the way?
18298But would not the theory of the decomposition of carbon do quite as well?
18298Can not the Royal Agricultural Society offer a premium for a short- strawed wheat of good quality?
18298Can not this be prevented?
18298Can you inform me what it is that causes the land to be clover- sick?
18298Did you ever use woollen rags as manure?
18298Do any of the rivers of China( not Chinese Tartary) contain Salmon?
18298Do any of the rivers on the west coast of America below the latitude of 40 degrees N. contain Salmon?
18298Do none of the great agriculturists themselves see how desirable such a wheat would be for the agriculture of this country?
18298Do you mean to do away with these?
18298Do you mean to prohibit the trammel, which is usually a treble and not a double net?
18298Does Salmo Salar think that one ton and a tenth of Smolts go down the river Hodder to the sea on an average of years?
18298Does it not directly or indirectly flow into a river or the sea?
18298Does it throw any light upon the new manure for which he is said to be taking out a patent?
18298Does not this include common Trout?
18298Has it been observed by naturalists that spiders eat their own webs?
18298Has it been tried?
18298He says his pond is fifty miles from the sea;"therefore, how is it that these little Eels get no larger in their long and tedious journey?
18298How could such hecks or grates be prevented from choking with leaves in the autumn and ice in the winter, thus stopping the wheels?
18298How, then, are the repairs of shafting and machinery to be made?
18298I mean, is the evaporation from its surface equal to the supply of water?
18298I said,"John, did you never hear of a man gathering the stones off his field, and then having to lead them back again?"
18298I said,"What does manuring land mean, but putting something into it of which it is deficient?
18298I said,"What is your objection to it, John?"
18298If it is the abstraction of something from the soil, what is that something?
18298If neither a series of Scotch nets nor a single trammel is to be used, by what sort of net do you propose to catch the Salmon?
18298If not, where does the surplus go to?
18298If not, why not?
18298If these precautions are unnecessary, why go to such expense?
18298If they have, when, where, and how has this been accomplished, and where is it recorded?
18298If this is doubted, I would ask how it happens that in the autumn they have fluid milt in them?
18298If you are a believer in humus, what is it composed of, and how does it act in forwarding vegetation?
18298If you had twenty shillings in your pocket, and I filled it up with these cobble- stones, how much poorer would you be?
18298Is he sure they have taken none this season?
18298Is it surprising that the upper proprietors are not satisfied with this state of things?
18298Is there no escape of water from it?
18298It is true we have had none this winter, but when shall we have such another?
18298It is true, many Wrens''nests may be found in which there are no feathers; but did you ever find either eggs or young ones in them?
18298It may be asked, Where can a short- strawed wheat of good quality be procured?
18298It may be asked, who is the man who obtrudes his opinions on the colony unasked, and what can be his motives?
18298It may be said, How do you know that one of the three or four varieties of Smolts which you describe further on, is not the fry of the Mort?
18298Let this be applied to plants: are we to suppose that the plant assimilates all that is absorbed by its roots and leaves?
18298Need we be surprised, then, if the breed decreases?
18298No doubt he may have done so, but did he catch them of the thickness of a crow''s quill, and three inches long?
18298Now, what takes place under such circumstances?
18298Of what have I robbed this field by putting gravel into it?"
18298On what subject is it?
18298Or, what is the value of black fish full of spawn?
18298P.S.--Am I to suppose that you have abandoned the idea of manuring an acre of wheat for thirteen shillings?
18298Recurring again to the quantity of manure necessary to grow thirty- six bushels of wheat, I would ask, why limit yourself to so small a crop?
18298Secondly, whether they offer a prize for the introduction of Salmon fry; and if so, what is the amount offered?
18298T. says further there is also room for inquiry into another curious subject-- do Eels return to fresh water after having gone to the sea for spawning?
18298Then how are the fisheries in the estuary and just above tideway to be valued?
18298There is on my part no objection to this examination, but why are millowners stigmatized by being subjected to exceptional legislation?
18298Thirdly, whether they offer a prize for the introduction of fertilized ova of Salmon or Trout, and what is the amount?
18298True, but what are they worth?
18298What did they give the upper proprietors on the Ribble and the Hodder last season?
18298What do you understand by humus?
18298What is this but an encouragement to do so again?
18298What would become of all the spawn deposited there?
18298What would they care about the matter?
18298What, for instance, would the magistrates meeting at Wakefield know of the Ribble or the Hodder?
18298Where are the originals of our wheat, barley, rye, beans, and peas?
18298Where does the water flow to, and for what is this sill?
18298Who beside Mr. Boccius ever saw Eel- fry in a pond which had no communication with a river?
18298Who knows whether the_ Furia Infernalis_ is anything else than a murderous Mrs. Harris-- at all events, who has seen one, and what was it like?
18298Who saw the eggs from which Mr. Boccius produced living Eels?
18298Who saw the fish from which those thousands of eggs were extracted at the time this dissection was made?
18298Whose authority have you for this?
18298Why do you think that the water in pools is never still enough to allow it to get below 32 degrees without freezing on still clear nights?
18298Will G. H. be kind enough to say whether he does not catch his about the same time?
18298Will Mr. Rennie condescend to enlighten me?
18298Will raising the average produce from twenty- five to fifty bushels per acre be the utmost limit to which improvement can be carried?
18298Will you allow me to ask whether you ever personally saw ice at the bottom of a pond when there was none on the surface?
18298Will you have the kindness to say what was the amount offered?
18298Would a dissection of the Conger at various seasons throw any light on the propagation of Eels?
18298Would it not be better to expressly insist upon all cruive fisheries being positively closed from sunset to sunrise?
18298Would it not be better to limit your intentions to all migratory fish of the Salmon kind, to wit, Salmon, Grilse,& c.& c.?
18298and if not, in what respect did it differ?
18298and if so, under what circumstances?
18298and if they are necessary for hares and birds, may they not be also for fish?
18298and what time did they give within which they would pay for a successful attempt?
18298and will he also state whether he does not catch them principally after heavy rains have increased the flow of water out of the pond?
18298for as nature makes no unnecessary provisions, for what purpose is this, if not to provide for the possibility of a female Salmon coming alone?
18298of the rate?
18298washed down the drains by the rain, and so lost for ever?
18298which did not enter into the composition of the plant?
18298who were the parties who made themselves responsible for the payment?
18298will he also say whether the Eels he catches are not Silver Eels?
28019Do n''t you_ see_ he is? 28019 Hollow trees were good enough for our fathers; who are we that we should assume to know more than all the generations before us?
28019Look at me,he says;"do I act like one on the watch for his prey?
28019Who are you,he says,"that I should be at the trouble to insult you?"
28019Who are_ you_, now?
28019Who ever heard of th''Indian Peru? 28019 Why do you intrude?"
28019All true enough; but do you call that a man''s biography?
28019And doth he not cross the Common every day?
28019And happiness, too,--is that something of which the scientific mind can render us a quite adequate description?
28019And yet, who knows the heart of a bird?
28019And yet, who that knows it does not love his earnest, long- drawn trill, dry and tuneless as it is?
28019Are the smallest birds really the most courageous, or does an unconscious sympathy on our part inevitably give them odds in the comparison?
28019Birds feeding in the street?
28019But how should we like to be inventoried in such a style?
28019But then came the inevitable second thought: had I really heard it?
28019But then, what do we climb mountains for, if not to see something out of the common course?
28019But what then?
28019But who ever dreamed of calling the chipping sparrow a fine singer?
28019CONTENTS: The Pastoral Bees; Sharp Eyes; Is it going to rain?
28019Canst thou imagine where those spirits live Which make such delicate music in the woods?
28019Christians as we are, how many of us could stand such a test?
28019Did he not know that his own poet had, described him as"hot midsummer''s petted crone"?
28019Do n''t you see_ I_ am standing guard over this nest?"
28019Do not these begin by singing under the lady''s window, or by sending verses to her?
28019Do you know what it means?
28019Does not her angelic face sing to his eye, as Emerson says?
28019Every creature, no matter how brave, has some other creature to be afraid of; otherwise, how would the world get on?
28019Except a few uncommonly superstitious people, who does not enjoy the whip- poor- will''s trisyllabic exhortation, and the_ yak_ of the night- hawk?
28019For we all believe( do we not?)
28019Had they become so attached to their friends as to have taken to imitating them unconsciously?
28019Has their music a meaning, or is it all a matter of blind impulse?
28019Hath not a Bostonian eyes?
28019He fills his place, and fills it well; and who knows but that he may yet outshine the skylark?
28019He likes cherries, it is true; and who can blame him?
28019He might even have taken his turn at quoting Emerson:--"Pants up hither the spruce clerk From South Cove and City Wharf"?
28019How came the chickadee by his endless fund of happy spirits?
28019How can we know the multitude of reasons, any one of which may detain him for twenty- four hours, or even for a week?
28019How could her mate be expected to rate her at her worth, if she allowed herself to be won too easily?
28019How is it with ourselves?
28019How should he know them, indeed?
28019If distinction can not be attained by one means, who knows but that it may be by another?
28019In short, how do birds come by their music?
28019Indeed, sir,--if one may be so bold,--why do you sing, yourself?"
28019Is it all a matter of instinct, inherited habit, or do they learn it?
28019Is there any lover of birds in whose mind certain birds and certain places are not indissolubly joined?
28019It is denied us to be great?
28019Need there be any mystery about the singing of such a lover?
28019No?
28019Not unlikely the malady will grow upon him; and who knows how soon he may become dangerous?
28019Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew?"
28019Or if may be( who will assert the contrary?)
28019Or is it, rather, a wayward, mysterious thing, coming often when least expected, and going away again when, by all tokens, it ought to remain?
28019Or the leaf is of a gracious shape and texture, but how shall we tell whether the flower will correspond with it?
28019Or were they practicing upon the vanity of these useful allies of theirs, these master fishermen?
28019Or who in venturous vessell measurèd The Amazon''s huge river, now found trew?
28019Our handsomest bird, and with musical aspirations as well, shall we put him into the second class?
28019Suddenly the stillness was broken by a vireo note, and I said to myself with surprise, A red- eye?
28019The leaf is nothing extraordinary, perhaps, yet who knows but that the bloom may be of the rarest beauty?
28019The waxwing and the vireo have the same vocal organs; why should the first do nothing but whisper, while the second is so loud and voluble?
28019This may be a thing of sentiment( for is not language full of uncomplimentary allusions to earth and earthliness?
28019Were there other birds in the woods as lovely as this?
28019What are chimneys for, pray?
28019What could be simpler or more delightful?
28019What could have set this fluent vocalist to practicing exercises of such an inferior, disconnected, piecemeal sort?
28019What could it be?
28019What did he think, I wonder, when I turned him on his back to look at the disks at his finger- tips?
28019What has any finch to do with a call like_ cherawink_, or with such a three- colored harlequin suit?
28019What if the cottage really were mine,--mine to spend a lifetime in?
28019What if the wind did blow, and the mercury stand at fifteen or twenty degrees below the freezing point?
28019What is he thinking about?
28019What life could possibly be more prosaic than his?
28019What shall we say now about the lesser lights of that most musical family, the finches?
28019What spirit possesses him?
28019What were these?
28019Whence did the towhee derive his equanimity, and the brown thrush his saturnine temper?
28019Who can answer?
28019Who can tell?
28019Who says the Yankee is not wiser than the Greek?
28019Who teaches the young chipper to trill, and the young linnet to warble?
28019Who will take upon himself to enumerate the offices of sunlight, or water, or indeed of any object whatever?
28019Who would ever mistrust, to see it, that it would prove to be connected in any way with the flaunting willow- herb, or fire- weed?
28019Who would have expected to find this heavy- bodied, long- billed, gross- looking, bull- headed bird singing at heaven''s gate?
28019Why could not the wood thrush have been punctual?
28019Why do birds sing?
28019Why do the mice sing, and the monkeys, and the woodchucks?
28019Why does every red- eyed vireo sing in one way, and every white- eyed vireo in another?
28019Why is one bird belligerent and another peaceable; one barbarous and another civilized; one grave and another gay?
28019Why should he?
28019Why should men be so provincial as to pronounce anything worthless merely because_ they_ can do nothing with it?
28019Why should they prefer Labrador and Greenland, Iceland and Spitzbergen, to more southern countries?
28019Why should we make a fetish out of some dead forefather''s example?
28019Why were they conducting thus strangely?
28019Why?
28019Yes; but how does it look to a dog, I wonder, that men can walk better on their hind legs than on all fours?
28019You do n''t think I am afraid of such a fellow as that, do you?"
28019[ 14] How, then, can they be otherwise than miserable?
28019_ He_ a"scorner of the ground"?
28019_ This_ danger was escaped, at any rate; and why should he make himself miserable with worrying about the next?
28019and what difference is there between the two in the mind of the singer?
28019did you see me peck at him?
28019here''s another young bird that ca n''t fly; why do n''t you come and catch him?"
28019the saucy fellow seemed to say,"Who are_ you_, now?"
33134And leave him on the road? 33134 And shall I be afrayd Of Cats in mine own Countrey?"
33134Are they all here?
33134Carry what?
33134Did you hear him call hawk, hawk?
33134Do you know where Mr. Benjamin Bluff lives?
33134Has n''t Sigurd had his dinner yet?
33134Has n''t, though? 33134 How can you be so cruel?"
33134How''s your snapper?
33134In the nether spaces Will the soul of a Little Black Dog despair? 33134 Is n''t there room for Emilius in the pot?"
33134Is this a public vehicle?
33134Is your name Blazey?
33134Mr. Bluff in?
33134Now how many catkins have you over there? 33134 O Darlint, is it my death ye''re after seeing now?
33134Say, you miss that old dog of yours a sight, do n''t you?
33134Taka,I would remonstrate,"are n''t you ashamed to treat your own clansman like this, when you wanted him so much?"
33134Thet so? 33134 Two young collies?
33134Was it his wife?
33134Was n''t it Pierre Loti who had a pet tortoise?
33134Well?
33134What can I do?
33134What can you do?
33134What is Sigurd slinging about there on the lawn?
33134What lady?
33134What next?
33134What noise? 33134 What scared him?"
33134When is a clutter not a clutter?
33134Where''s Taka?
33134Who came to the door?
33134Who does the countin''?
33134Who hath talked to the shy bird- people, And counseled the feathered breast To follow the sagging rain- wind Over the purple crest?
33134Who takes the other two?
33134Whose dog are you, Gold of Ophir?
33134Why do n''t you carry Polly with you, too?
33134Why, what are those?
33134Would n''t a washtub do?
33134_ Eggs._ Did n''t you ever see turtles''eggs before? 33134 ''Pussy- cat, Pussy- cat, What did you there?'' 33134 --_Juet''s Journal._ What did you see, O pussy- cat- mew, Pet of the_ Half- Moon''s_ turbulent crew? 33134 ADVENTURES_ Puntarvolo._ Is he religious?
33134Ai n''t no God, eh, and he never made no mornin''s?
33134And how will he tackle the Strange Beasts there?
33134And was Death''s whistle then so wondrous sweet Across the glimmering wold That you Would trustfully pursue Strange feet?
33134And what recompense, even in the far reaches of eternity, can their Creator make to these myriad martyrs for their griefs and tortures?
33134Are all our frolics ended?
33134Are we so true, So wise, So broken- hearted when love''s day is through?
33134But even s''posin''thet your morals did n''t hurt you none, do ye think I''d let it out to a stranger?
33134Can you lie Under this woodland mold, More still Than broken daffodil, When I, Home from too long a roving, Come up the silent hill?
33134Catch me that fly, ca n''t you?
33134Chirping in his affectionate fashion, he peeped down upon us with evident surprise as if to ask,"Why do n''t you come, too?
33134Could he----?
33134Did he, like the old hero Njal,"gentle and generous,"foreknow his end as he chose out this quiet, beautiful spot?
33134Did you dream of multitudinous mice Running about the Isles of Spice In a paradoxical Paradise?
33134Do n''t you want her to have it?"
33134Even in creation''s dawn Was Puck with Oberon?
33134Even nursery- lore bears witness to this:"''Pussy- cat, Pussy- cat, Where have you been?''
33134For motors to run over?
33134For what environment did you provide By pushing your internal frame outside?
33134GROWING UP"His years were full; his years were joyous; why Must love be sorrow, when his gracious name Recalls his lovely life of limb and eye?"
33134Had Emilius gone for good and taken his eggs with her?
33134Had he----?
33134Have you the heart to ask me to drop them into a pail of cold, cold water?
33134His troubled eyes would well over with expostulatory questions:"Say, why is this?
33134Holy is Allah, but Is holiness expressed In hedgehogs?
33134How came your ribs in this abnormal place?
33134How can we expect wise old Grimalkin to forgive us our atrocities?
33134How can we reproach the Spaniards, who celebrate their Easter by the merciless bullfight, while we permit this cruelty to tender chickenhood?
33134How could a puppy remain at his post if his post would not remain at the puppy?
33134How could he get out of their way?
33134How much have you been giving him for dinner?"
33134How was he aware of her at that distance, in that dusk, the Lady of Cedar Hill?
33134In vain I remonstrated:"Alas, how is''t with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
33134Is He the God of Hardy''s_ The Dynasts_, careless of mortal agonies?
33134Is it Poor Ellen with the candles at head and feet?
33134Juet kept journal of storm and fog And the mermaid that set them all agog, But what has become of the cat- a- log?
33134Lost?
33134Shall the tale slight you, whose tail was a- quiver As you and Hudson sailed up the river Made only his by Time the giver?
33134Shall we perswade our selves that wee know what thing a Camell is, because wee know it is not a Frogge?"
33134Should we make a life- long captive of our Robin, who took so pleasantly to human ways, or should we give him the perils and delights of liberty?
33134TAKA AND KOMA"What madness is it to take upon us to know a thing by that it is not?
33134TO SIGURD Not one blithe leap of welcome?
33134Turned over a cool thousand----""Of turtles?"
33134Was it a dogfish struck the spark From your sea- green eyes with the quaint remark That you were sailing upon a bark?
33134Was it from us They learned such loyal love Magnanimous, Meeting our injuries with trustful eyes?
33134Was n''t it you?
33134Were you not homesick where monsters swam, Dolorous dolphin and clamorous clam, For your sunny stoop in Amsterdam?
33134What claim canst thou make good To angelhood?"
33134What does he know about motors?"
33134What is a speck of yellow frosting on a collie''s long red tongue?
33134What rapture in a run''Twixt snow and sun!_"Nay, brother of the sod, What part hast thou in God?
33134What scared you so?
33134What should make A collie know the grief of mortal things?
33134What sort of a physiologist are you to suppose that kittens, born only yesterday, could live without their mother?
33134What spirit art thou of?"
33134What to do with Laddie?
33134What was our far- off glimpse of silvery Wachusett to the radiant glories of sea- girt Fujiyama?
33134What was the cargo you hoped to bring?
33134What''s that?
33134What''s up now?
33134Whativer is it that ye can be wanting?"
33134Whence the jest?
33134Where are we going on this trip, trip?"
33134Where did they learn The miracle of love?
33134Where''s Laddie?"
33134Who taught them mew- tiny?
33134Why did you take to adventuring, Puss- illanimous fireside thing?
33134Why mid yellow Sprays of the willow by her empty nest Lingers the golden warbler?
33134Why not accomplish two good deeds in one and give this self- willed waif to us for a pet?
33134Why, if it must be so, were these doomed animals endowed with the awful gift of suffering?
33134Why?"
33134Will the Quiet Folk scare him with shadow- faces?
33134Will you please keep Sigurd in?"
33134Would he----?
33134Would n''t you better take him back to where you found him?"
33134_ Ah, Keeper of the Portal, If Love be not immortal, If Joy be not divine, What prayer is mine?_ THE CALL OF THE BLOOD"Come, brother; away!"
33134what should we do?"
33134what_ is_ it?"
33134where is thy blush?"
33134wherefore?
33134who calls on Hamlet?"
7353And what about badgers?
7353I suppose you ca n''t understand that?
7353Oh, gone, has he?
7353What would he do with this shilling if I tossed it to him?
7353Why did n''t you knock him down?
7353Why strange? 7353 Why strange?"
7353** May be roughly rendered thus: Whence, blithe one, comest thou With that airy, happy flight-- To make the valleys glad, O swift- winged butterfly?
7353And do they pair or not before the winter?
7353And why is it?
7353Are not five sparrows sold for three farthings?
7353Are there no silent green retreats left where the conditions are better suited to their shy and delicate natures?
7353Are they killed by severe frosts?
7353But at the rate they are devouring their green stuff there will not be a leat, scarcely a stem left in another hour; and then?
7353But what is noise?
7353But would that be too much to give if it made me tranquil in my own mind?
7353DO STARLINGS PAIR FOR LIFE?
7353Do they, then, join the old birds before the wandering and migrating south begins?
7353Do you hear the larks?"
7353Earwig?"
7353For what would there be, then, to stop the birds increasing?
7353For when has the character of the voice influenced a fancier in selecting?
7353Has England, burdened with care and long estranged from Nature, so many sweet voices left?
7353He caught starlings still, but what was the good of that?
7353How does this come about?
7353How, then can we account for the increase of such a species?
7353I caught the eye of the man nearest me and repeated the question,"Are there no badgers here?"
7353I think of his lines to a butterfly: De donde alegre vienes Tan suelta y tan festiva, Las valles alegrando Veloz mariposilla?
7353II DO STARLINGS PAIR FOR LIFE?
7353In what, then, does its charm consist?
7353What aerial chimes are those wafted from the leafy turret of every tree?
7353What clear, choral songs-- so wild, so glad?
7353What did this strange and terrible thing mean?
7353What faint melodious murmurings that float around us, mysterious and tender as the lisping of leaves?
7353What strange instruments, not made with hands, so deftly touched and soulfully breathed upon?
7353What to see?
7353What will he do with it?
7353When shall we have symbols to express as perfectly our summer- feeling-- our dream?
7353Where''s the bird got to?
7353Who delights not in a bird?
7353Who, for instance, would imagine that the sexes could be faithful in parasitical species like the cuckoo of Europe and the cow- birds of America?
7353Why are these exquisite birds so rare, even in situations so favourable to them as the one I have described?
7353Why are they always waiting, congregating as far from us as the depth of garden, lawn, or orchard will allow, yet always near as they dare to come?
7353Why do they press so persistently around us; and not in London only, but in every town and village, every house and cottage in this country?
7353Why?
7353Will its marred harsh voice in the city street Make any heart of you glad?
7353and on being answered affirmatively, exclaims,"What could they have seen in each other?"
7353he exclaimed, coming to a stand,"you here to- day?
7353no hall, or any place where you can meet and spend the long winter evenings?
45369Can it be possible?
45369Can it be that such is their function?
45369A great many people, ought we to write?
45369A large number also are_ carnivorous_ creatures: need we mention the spider- tribe?
45369And if so, have they blood like ours?
45369And is this all that we can mention about the structure of an egg?
45369And so with me: God may order and arrange the great events in my life; but are not the little ones too small for Him to regard?"
45369Are there then no anxious mothers concerned in the well- being of their eggs among insects also?
45369But how do these indefatigable attendants ascertain precisely the moment when their aid is required?
45369But how?
45369But it may be asked, What of the colouring matter?
45369But it may now be asked, What is a pupa, and what are the differences between it and a larva, and between it and the perfect insect?
45369But it may perhaps be asked, where are its tools, and by what means does it succeed in casting up these loads of earth?
45369But what then?
45369But, it will be asked, how do they contrive so to keep the sides of the bag from flapping together as to prevent them from closing?
45369By what hidden and mysterious power this has been effected who can tell?
45369Can insects foretell the state of the weather?
45369Can it be possible?
45369Can it endure the penetrating tooth of frost, or the overwhelming shower of rain?
45369Can we question that the merry grasshopper, chirping all day in the field, is heard by its mate?
45369Does God take thought for these, and will He not much more care for and arrange well every event in the lives of his faithful children?
45369From these necessary details let us turn to make the difficult, but important inquiry-- How are the wings expanded?
45369How can it tell that its future progeny will eat this food, or that food?
45369How can the poor blow- fly, when it leaves its eggs on our food, be certain that it is appointing a suitable place for the birth- spot of its progeny?
45369How is it to disengage itself from its case, and be suspended in the air while it climbs up to take its place?
45369How is it to get back to the hole at which it entered?
45369How is it to reach the surface, even now?
45369How is the moth to make its way through the dense mass of fibres all glued together, which walls her in on every side?
45369How is this fresh difficulty to be overcome?
45369How is this guarded against?
45369How, then, it may be asked, does the larva acquire new hairs to take the place of the old ones?
45369How, then, it may be asked?
45369How, then, shall the insect know the exact place where its portal is situated?
45369How, without a clue, shall it discover in its dark abode the precise circle which requires only a push to throw open its gate?
45369In both cases, the_ vitality_ of the membranous or fleshy receptacle secures it from the action of the included fluid; but_ how_, who shall explain?"
45369Is the egg of a spider the same in the number and nature of its parts as that of a butterfly, or the egg of a gnat as that of a beetle?
45369Is there no striking and broad difference to mark the nature of the future insect?
45369It may be asked, Are these all lost in the perfect insect; or are they still to be traced in it?
45369Its eye, and probably ears, and means of touch, have all come before us; but where, it will be asked, is its tongue?
45369Let us now ask what is the use of these singular organs of the insect?
45369Need we say how it can be easily accounted for?
45369Need we say these are the butterflies?
45369On examining the body we see, indeed, a pair of shining horny plates on its back; but surely these are not wings?
45369On watching her closely we find her busy at some self- imposed occupation; what is its nature?
45369Or can it endure to be from week to week, from month to month, without a mouthful of food?
45369Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce His works unwise, of which the smallest part Exceeds the narrow vision of her mind?"
45369Some one perhaps will say,_ Breathe_?--do larvæ breathe?
45369Surely, as we should imagine, there must be some important differences between these, otherwise why such immense differences in the perfect insect?
45369Thus imperilled, what chance has the larva against foes so numerous, and in a contest so unequal?
45369WHAT IS A PUPA?
45369Was ever mother''s love more plainly manifested than this love?
45369Were all the eggs produced by insects to be hatched and to bring forth living progeny, we may well ask what would become of mankind?
45369Were they dead?
45369What have either of these to do with an insect?
45369What is it to do?
45369What is to be done?
45369What is to become of the larva?
45369What should we think of a quadruped as large as a bull, whose eyes occupied great part of its head, its forehead, and the greater portion of its face?
45369What, then, can this beating organ be which we behold?
45369Whither, then, must we go to watch the awakening of life in the insect?
45369Who has not himself performed, or been the subject of, the trick of causing a grain of barley to creep up the sleeve?
45369Who would imagine that caterpillar, grub, maggot, and larva, signified one and the same stage of the life of an insect?
45369Why does it not select the green surface of the leaf, or the warm corner of the window, or the bare earth, for this purpose?
45369Why is this, we ask, that in all cases insects eat less when they are fully developed, than when in their infancy and youth?
45369Why is this?
45369Why, then, should the love- tap of an insignificant beetle have received such an interpretation?
45369Yet how can this be, when the insect is under water the whole time up to its becoming a perfect moth?
45369and if so, by what means?
45369and, as we would also suggest, How could he ensure that the bird would not actually have eaten up the objects of his care?
45369by what means do they, from being thick, soft, and moist, become thin, hard, and dry?
45369could any one believe that these strange, and some of them awful looking larvæ ever became_ butterflies_?
45369or does the tap of the death- tick beetle, formerly commemorated, draw forth no answering tap from its companion on the other side of the post?
45369or that the cricket on the hearth sings for its fellows, or only to please_ our_ ears?
6093And what is this?
6093Do you know what it is to me to hear that date-- that fatal year? 6093 Have I not offered you enough?
6093Oh no,I returned,"why should they?
6093Oh, senor, will you not give it to me?
6093Well, now, what story shall I tell you?
6093What are you going to do with that cane?
6093What did he mean-- how did he know?
6093What do you want, then?
6093Who is this black fellow, I wonder?
6093Why not milk the cats?
6093And I would ask myself: What does it mean?
6093And the woman who did this unusual thing and in doing it unknowingly dropped a minute seed into a boy''s mind, who was she?
6093And to the sad question:"How was it to be attained?"
6093Besides, if he wanted small birds for any purpose, why did he try to get them by throwing pebbles at them?
6093Black or brown or bay or chestnut, or what?
6093But how could I climb the tree and get over the rim of the huge nest?
6093But why was she glad, so innocently glad as it seemed to me, as if she had done some meritorious and no evil thing?
6093Could you make a better exchange?
6093Do n''t you know that they do no harm to any one, and it is wrong to hurt them?"
6093Father or son-- who is it?"
6093Had he never heard of Barboza, the celebrated fighter who had killed so many men in fights?
6093Have not the cattle eyes to see and brains to think and remember too?
6093How could I, not yet six, think otherwise than as she had told me to think, or have a doubt?
6093How was this man with six wives regarded by his neighbours?
6093How, he demanded, did I reconcile these ancient fabulous notions with the doctrine of evolution?
6093I had heard something terrible-- too terrible to think of, incredible-- and yet-- and yet if it was not so, why had he said it?
6093I pleaded still; and then, with sudden hope,"Are you going to sell it?"
6093If he actually believed_ The Tin Box_ article was going to have that disastrous effect on him, who could blame him for destroying it?
6093More than once during my life, when recalling that episode, I have asked myself if I did right in taking the shepherd''s advice?
6093Naturally every one was astonished, and the first thought was, What will happen now?
6093Nevertheless, I still ask myself:"Would it?"
6093Now, how came it to be there?
6093Or was it for me to do just what I wished, to shape my own destiny, as my elder brothers had done?
6093Then she died, and what her loss was to me-- how can I say it?--how could you understand?
6093Trigg?"
6093Trigg?"
6093Was it because he hated us, just because we were children and he had to teach us our lessons, and wanted to torture us?
6093Was this, then, the horrible fate that awaited us all?
6093Were you ever treated more generously?
6093What I desire to know, said he, is, why eleven?
6093What effect had Darwin produced on me?
6093What explanation was possible but that of community of descent?
6093What is a white mare to you-- to you, a poor man-- more than a mare of any other colour?
6093What matter of tremendous importance had brought this crowd to our house?
6093What shall we do without her?"
6093What were these wonderful birds?
6093What, then, did I want?-what did I ask to have?
6093What, then, was I to do?
6093Who are you?"
6093Why do you say you know?"
6093Why were they so tame?
6093Why, I asked, were they made so much of?--- why was it said that He suffered as no man had suffered?
6093Would he come?
6093said I to myself, and just then he shouted to me in English,"Hullo, my boy, what are you doing here?"
16077''Anything more to say, ma''am?'' 16077 ''D''ye want to see baby et up afore yer eyes?"
16077A-- whopper?
16077And are they as big as Bill says?
16077And did he ever get out of that deep hole?
16077And does it hurt?
16077And have n''t you got used to Billy''s fairy stories yet?
16077And if a yellow- jacket lights on your sock and starts to crawl up under the leg of your knickers, you wo n''t stir?
16077And what do you know about swordfish, then?
16077And what would you do if a little, teeny, black- and- white striped skunk came at you?
16077And which came_ this_ time-- her mother or the bear?
16077And who ever heard of a snake''s eyes flaming? 16077 But do you suppose he really was?
16077But how big are they when they''re little?
16077But how did they hold on to him?
16077But then, it_ is_ summer, for_ them_, is n''t it?
16077But they live in the water, do n''t they?
16077But what became of the snowhouse baby?
16077But what became of the two Little Furry Ones after that?
16077But what made the steam, Uncle Andy?
16077But what would she do when the lumbermen came back?
16077But what''s a barracouta?
16077But why did it run at me that way?
16077But why did n''t the rest of the bees follow him? 16077 But why does she carry them around with her that way?"
16077But why was he called Little Silk Wing, Uncle Andy?
16077But would he_ really_ have bitten me?
16077But_ what_ could he know about_ cake_, Uncle Andy?
16077Ca n''t you see that for yourself?
16077Did he rob birds''nests?
16077Did n''t it hurt her_ dreadfully_?
16077Did n''t she feel_ dreadful_?
16077Did you ever hear of any of the cow kind having sense enough for that? 16077 Did you know them?"
16077Do you suppose a bear like that could be kept shut up long? 16077 Do_ crows_ eat_ mice_?"
16077Hi, but is n''t he a whopper?
16077How can I make a noise winking?
16077How do you know that?
16077How long''ll that be?
16077Huh, what could_ he_ do to_ him_?
16077I mean,he explained,"is n''t he a big one?
16077If you were going to be caught out in a blizzard, would you rather be in dry clothes or in wet ones?
16077Is anything the matter?
16077Is it_ big_?
16077No? 16077 Or from Jim Cringle?"
16077So it depends on what kind of a bird, eh, what?
16077Still, you know, the opinion of the prairie dogs would have been interesting, would n''t it? 16077 The_ cat_?"
16077Then why are n''t they fish?
16077Was he going to try a nibble at that, too?
16077Was it a snake?
16077Was it your mother, or a bear?
16077Was that because she was so careless?
16077What are the other reasons?
16077What came?
16077What could it have been?
16077What could_ he_ do to a bear?
16077What did he go and do_ that_ for?
16077What do they do it for?
16077What do you slide down hill for?
16077What do you think it is? 16077 What does_ he_ do?"
16077What else_ could_ it be? 16077 What on earth did you make those dreadful noises for?"
16077What on earth''s the matter?
16077What was it that drove them out of their own burrow in such a hurry?
16077What was it that interrupted?
16077What''s Arctic swells?
16077What''s made them so awful mad, do you suppose?
16077What''s that?
16077What''s the matter?
16077What''s_ impish_?
16077Whatever has been putting swordfish into your head?
16077Where did it come from? 16077 Who''d want to?"
16077Who''re the Water Babies?
16077Who''s_ he_?
16077Why did he fall down out of the tree?
16077Why do n''t you know_ that_? 16077 Why not for weasels?"
16077Why so solemn all of a sudden?
16077Why, do n''t you know what_ that_ is yet?
16077Why, were n''t they afraid of_ her_?
16077Why, what could get at them, away up there?
16077Why, what_ could_ get at them in there?
16077Why?
16077Why?
16077Why?
16077Why?
16077Why?
16077Why?
16077Will he bite?
16077Would he run at you or Bill that way?
16077You know that old rhyme about him:''How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
16077_ Why_ did they all fly away like that, as if they had just remembered something awfully important? 16077 _ Why_ do bats get themselves misunderstood, Uncle Andy?"
16077_ Why_ were there only two young ones in the nest in the pine tree?
16077''They hain''t used yer right out here in the woods, have they?
16077After a few seconds the Babe''s impatience got the better of him; and before he could stop himself he blurted out"Why?"
16077And now are we going to catch some fish?"
16077And now, who''s going to tell this story, you or I?"
16077And then, to his horror, just as he was recording this sagacious resolution in his mind, he heard himself demanding:"But why after a rainy thaw?"
16077And why did it take the whole flock that way to teach the young ones to fly?
16077And why do they make fun of the stupid ones?
16077And why would you like to be a wild goose?
16077And why would you rather be a little tiny humming- bird than a crow?
16077And-- and why are they afraid, when they are_ born_ to fly?
16077But you saw for yourself how neat it was, eh?"
16077But, remembering the Snowhouse Baby, he could not help inquiring:"Why did n''t she make herself a house in the snow?"
16077CHAPTER XIV THE DARING OF STRIPES TERROR- TAIL"What would you do if a bear came at you, Uncle Andy?"
16077CHAPTER XV DAGGER BILL AND THE WATER BABIES"What''s that?"
16077Did you notice how quick it stopped?
16077Do n''t you call that sly?"
16077Do n''t you know what_ impish_ is?"
16077Eh, what?
16077Eh?
16077Had he not routed all presumptuous enemies but the Boy?
16077Had he not that very morning been rebuked by his uncle for asking too many of what he called"footy"questions?
16077How had he ever forgotten it?
16077I do n''t think Bill has ever been at all intimate with swordfish-- eh, what?"
16077Is that quite clear?"
16077Now, after we once get fixed, you wo n''t move a muscle, not even if two or three mosquitoes alight on you at once and begin to help themselves?"
16077Now, if he''d got_ their_ opinion--""But how_ could_ he?"
16077Sounds as if he was terribly amused, does n''t he?
16077The Babe''s mouth opened for the natural question:"What''s capelin?"
16077Then he whispered tensely--"What''s that?"
16077Was it possible that Uncle Andy had merely adopted this base means of teaching him to keep still?
16077Well, what was it like?
16077What do you think?"
16077What does it want?
16077What is it, Uncle Andy?"
16077What was the pain of his smarting muzzle to that ecstatic mouthful?
16077What would_ they_ have a carrot for?"
16077What''s that?"
16077Why else, if not from some such sinister motive, had he come aboard her raft, when he had been traveling on a perfectly good tree?
16077You heard that fellow fall down out of a tree, did n''t you?"
16077_ Tremendous_?"
16077continued the Babe, meaning to say--"But what on earth are they doing?"
16077demanded Uncle Andy,"instead of simply calling for me, or Bill, to come and get you?"
16077he exclaimed,"how could a cub do what a big, strong, grown- up bear could n''t manage?"
16077why_ did n''t_ he stop to think?"
47599( Bacteria?
47599( Satyrus L.) Papilio Solandra( var.?)
47599( var.?)
47599(_ Fabricius_, incorrectly?)
475991.?
475991.?
475991.?
47599175.?
4759927?
4759959. d.) Stenochorus marylandicus?
4759986?
475998?
47599But are the medicinal virtues of the cantharides confined entirely to that species?
47599CALLIMORPHA?
47599CALLIMORPHA?
47599CALLIMORPHA?
47599Cape of Good Hope(_??
47599Cape of Good Hope(_??
47599Cimex papillosus?
47599FAMILY: Lycænidæ?
47599For whoever heard of a naturalist being an atheist?
47599Fuscescens, unicolor( in vivis virescens?
47599GASTROPACHA?
47599GASTROPACHA?
47599GASTROPACHA?
47599Gryllus tartaricus?
47599HABITAT: Madras( and Philadelphia, sed?
47599HABITAT:(----?
47599HABITAT:(----?
47599Heterogenea,_ Knoch._ Phalæna Bombyx,_ Linn._ LIMACODES?
47599Is there none other found in England, answering the same purpose, which we might have by seeking for?
47599Is this to be regarded as a variety, the opposite sex, or a distinct species?
47599It is said to feed on the potato, tobacco, red pepper( Capsicum?
47599LIMACODES?
47599Lamia regalis,_ Fabr.?
47599Might not the same effects be expected from it here as there?
47599NOCTUA( ACONTIA?)
47599NOCTUA,_ Auct._ SUBGENUS.--?
47599NOCTUA,_ Auct._( SUBGENUS, Acontia?
47599PIERIS( THESTIAS) PYRENE?
47599Phalæna( Attacus) Crepuscularis?
47599Polistes lineata?
47599SECTION: Crepuscularia.?
47599SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47599SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47599SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47599SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47599Scarabæus Amazonus?
47599Sierra Leone(_ Fabr._??).
47599Sierra Leone(_ Fabr._??).
47599Sphinx Licaon,_ Cramer_.?
47599Thysania,_ Dalman._ Noctua,_ Fabr._ Phalæna( Attacus),_ Linn._ EREBUS CREPUSCULARIS?
47599Who would believe that the hard substance of the soundest Oak was capable of being macerated by an insect, and received into its stomach as food?
47599ZYGÆNA?
47599ZYGÆNA?
47599[ 11] Might not, therefore, a close inquiry into the subject, spare us the trouble and expense of applying to foreigners for this article?
47599[ Illustration] EREBUS CREPUSCULARIS?
47599[ Illustration] LIMACODES?
47599_ No._ 658?
47599_ No._ 671?
47599_ No._ 77?
47599_ No._ 98?
47599_ Wolff_, 12. f. 113.?
47599_ f._ 138?
47599_ f._ 2.?
47599_ f._ 85.?
47599_ fig._ C. D.?
47599and how could the vast number of small insects, increasing every day during the summer, be restrained and lessened?
47599et quo prætio?
47599et si prodiere ubi inveniuntur?
47599how evident and conspicuous would it have appeared?
47599or could all the genera of flies, and even birds that we know of, have accomplished this end?
47599or of an infidel, who had spent his life in studying and observing the works of nature?
47599p._ 120?
47599t._ 70?
47599what genus of the transparent- winged class could possibly have performed this business singly?
47599{ 121}LOCUSTA TARTARICA?
47599{ 24}COLIAS( CALLIDRYAS) PYRANTHE,_ var._?
47599{ 35}NOCTUA( ACONTIA?)
47599{ 52}ZYGÆNA?
38233''Dear bird,''I said,''what is thy name?''
38233...... Was ever a family so ill- assorted as the blackbird and oriole clan?
38233A little boy once asked me this conundrum of his own making:"What is the difference between Martin Luther and a woodcock?"
38233Because he has the good taste to like strawberries and cherries as well as we do, is he to be condemned on that account?
38233But is his beauty only skin deep?
38233But what had brought so able a young flyer to earth?
38233But while we are watching her, what has become of the ten or a dozen little yellow balls we had almost stepped on?
38233But who is clever enough to keep the crows out of the field in autumn?
38233Ca n''t you see how nervous and fidgety you make me?"
38233Can it be the same bird?
38233Can you think of any other birds that work for him at night?
38233Did you ever get lost?
38233Did you ever hear a more ridiculous name?
38233Did you ever know a family so puzzling and contradictory as the Warblers?
38233Did you ever see it go through any of the queer motions that have earned for it so many names?
38233Did you ever see the funny fellow spread his tail and dance when he goes courting?
38233Did you ever see them gathering pellets of wet soil in their bills at some roadside puddle?
38233Do n''t you prefer the birds when flower seeds cost only five cents a packet?
38233Do n''t you think it is worth while to plant his favourites in your garden if only for the joy of seeing him about?
38233Do n''t you wish all the members of the family were as adventurous as the scarlet tanager?
38233Do n''t you wish every bird would introduce himself?
38233Do n''t you wish you were as familiar with the map as these migrants must be?
38233Do orioles generally take special delight in the music of a piano?
38233Do you ever enjoy an egg for breakfast?
38233Do you remember why the swifts, that sleep against the inside walls of our chimneys, do not fall down to the hearths below?
38233Do you think the brown thrasher looks any more like a cuckoo than he does like a thrush?
38233Does it cover, in reality, a multitude of sins?
38233Does the teasing blue jay imitate the call for the fun of frightening little birds?
38233Even the birds ought to have a"square deal"in free America: do n''t you think so?
38233For what end is the slaughter of the innocents?
38233Granted; but what about eating the farmer''s young chickens and turkeys as well as the eggs and babies of little song birds?
38233How can the birds be sure they will not thrust their bills through the eyes of their blind, naked and helpless babies in so dark a hole?
38233How could the seeds of many species be distributed over thousands of miles of land without their help?
38233How does he do it?
38233How does the grouse beat his deep, muffled, thump, thump, thumping, rolling tattoo?
38233If he kills insects for us every waking hour from April to October, do n''t you think he is entitled to a little fruit in June?
38233Is it any wonder that a bird so readily adaptable to all sorts of conditions should thrive like a weed and beat his way around the world?
38233Is it any wonder that the baby flycatchers''hair stands on end?
38233Is it any wonder that they are timid and shy?
38233Is it not a shame that they can not?
38233Is it not a wonder that the helpless heron babies do not tumble through the loose twigs?
38233Is it not strange that such hardy parents should coddle their children so?
38233Is n''t this a queer, Quakerly taste for a bird that spends half his life{ 171} in the tropics among gorgeously feathered friends?
38233Is n''t this a tragic fate to overtake our joyous songsters?
38233It was a pleasant shock to hear,_"Now, who are you, eh?
38233Just a few differences suggested themselves, but I did not guess right the very first time; can you?
38233Oh, do n''t you wish they would?
38233Perhaps you have seen pigeons pump food down the throats of their squabs?
38233R. Dugmore_) 146 How do you Suppose these Young Baltimore Orioles Ever Packed themselves into this Nest?
38233R. Dugmore_) 34 Another Tragedy of the Nests: What Villain Ate the Catbird''s Eggs?
38233Should n''t you think they would fall on the hearth down stairs?
38233Suppose the wicked cowbird comes back and lays still another egg in the two- storied nest: what then?
38233THE BLUEBIRD Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his{ 10} softly whistled song?
38233THE MOCKINGBIRD What child is there who does not know the mockingbird, caged or free?
38233The little girl did n''t like to distress the birds, of course, but how could she resist the temptation to find their nest?
38233The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to- night When the loosed storm breaks furiously?
38233The red- head''s thrifty habit was only recently discovered: has it been only recently acquired?
38233The sapsucker, the hairy and the downy woodpeckers also like beechnuts; the flicker prefers acorns; but do they store them for winter use?
38233This instinct of returned direction is marvellous, is it not?
38233Thou, little sandpiper, and I?
38233To what warm shelter canst thou fly?
38233WHITE- THROATED SPARROW_ Called also: Peabody- bird; Canada Sparrow_"What''s in a name?"
38233Was ever a bird more contradictory?
38233Was ever a sight so welcome?
38233What do you think about protecting him by law?
38233What does he find on the ground that keeps him there so much of the time?
38233What is the secret of their triumphant numbers?
38233What rent do the wrens pay for their little houses?
38233What tempts him so far north?
38233What traits are common to every member of it?
38233When you are eating ice cream, do n''t you wish your throat were as long as this heron''s?
38233Where are they now?
38233Where did they get so many hairs?
38233Where do they get their glue?
38233Who calls?
38233Who first misled us by calling these birds warblers?
38233Who gave them their queer name?
38233Who knows whether other woodpeckers have hoarding places?
38233Who that had not studied the books would recognise Mrs. Scarlet Tanager by her name?
38233Whom can he be scolding so severely?
38233Why are the birds so excited?
38233Why do n''t they fall off?
38233Why do you suppose they do it?
38233Why does the cowardly cowbird always choose a victim smaller than herself?
38233Why protect birds that are not fit for food and that kill no mice nor insects in the farmer''s fields?
38233Why should he?
38233Why?
38233Why?
38233Would it not be a pity for any would- be tenants to pass by your home because they could{ 34} not find a house to let?
38233Would it not be cruel to touch a{ 239} nest which the outraged owners would at once desert?
38233You have no need to meet him face to face in order to know him:_"You see it-- you know it-- do you hear me?--do you believe it?
38233[ Illustration] Another tragedy of the nests: what villain ate the catbird''s eggs?
38233_"See me; I''m here; where are you?
38233or Mrs. Indigo Bunting?
38233or Mrs. Purple Finch?
38233or Mrs. Rose- breasted Grosbeak?
38233{ 109} THE SONG SPARROW This is most children''s favourite bird: is it yours?
38233{ 207} Perhaps you have heard that the cuckoo, like the naughty cowbird, builds no nest and lays its eggs in other birds''cradles?
38233{ 230} BARRED OWL_ Called also: Hoot Owl_ If"a good child should be seen and not heard"what can be said for this owl?
38233{ 59} Why is he called the oven- bird?
47500Could you call that an ordinary hunting story? 47500 Did they eat?"
47500Did you give them any water to drink?
47500For the Protection of Birds,is a most reasonable and tangible declaration of motive, but what next?
47500How often do you feed them? 47500 Is n''t she tame?"
47500What did you feed them?
47500Why,he asks himself,"should certain birds have been allotted to certain gods and goddesses in the Greek and Roman mythology?
47500A few were taken indoors and sheltered through the night, but''what were these among so many?''
47500A pathway?
47500After all, is not this call for specialization something of a reproach to both home and school?
47500And in place of the advice to kill all the birds"you can get,"what do we find?
47500And now, where were those noisy little Chickadees who had been calling to us from the alder bushes for the last half- hour?
47500And what bird expresses wild grandeur and poetry of motion in so great a degree as the Eagle?
47500Are you wishing Jolly fishing?
47500At the end of a row of your brothers''nests, as the Eave Swallows do?
47500But what bird can fly so high or find so eery a resting place as to escape the''desire of the eye''of fashion?
47500But why was he called Greedy?
47500By reading to children?
47500Color and marking of back?
47500Color of head and throat?
47500Color of under parts?
47500Could there be something peculiar, we asked ourselves, in the_ quality_ of the first syllable, which made it carry beyond the others?
47500Did you ever look into a Chippy''s nest?
47500Did you feed them regularly about every hour?"
47500Difference in markings of male and female?
47500Do Robins raise more than one brood in a season?
47500Do both carry material?
47500Do n''t you think that will be nice?
47500Do you hear?
47500Do you know that birds are flying appetites?
47500Does he bring food to her?
47500Does he protect her from attack by birds or other enemies?
47500Does he spend some time singing to her, as if he were trying to keep her cheerful?
47500Does it trouble other birds?
47500Does it utter notes indicating diverse feelings, as joy, anger?
47500Does the male ever relieve his mate at this task?
47500Does the male ever seem to be acting as escort or guard to his mate?
47500For directing the young observer, write upon the board a scheme like this: ENGLISH SPARROW Length from tip of beak to end of tail?
47500Gait upon the ground,--does it walk, hop or run?
47500Have you seen and heard the Kinglet?
47500He is alone, because, according to most authorities, he travels in advance of his mate; and when I ask with wonder,"Well Peter, where is Phoebe?"
47500How can this best be done?
47500How do they retire in the evening, and what is their conduct when they leave their night- quarters in the morning?
47500How many toes?
47500How shall they be taught about birds?
47500I am frequently asked, after my lectures, the question:"Has your brother ever had a narrow escape from the rope nearly getting chafed in twain?"
47500If so, do they use the same nest twice?
47500If they raise two broods, what becomes of the first, while the mother is sitting upon the eggs for the second?
47500If you could find a kind family fond of birds, do n''t you think it would be a good thing to build near them?
47500If you were a bird and were going to build a nest, where would you put it?
47500Is it brave?
47500Is it not strange that they seem to think that this is the only place for Eaves to drink, though the lake is half a mile long?
47500Is it pugnacious?
47500Is it selfish?
47500Is there no appeal from Fashion''s decree?
47500Its situation-- sheltered or not?
47500No more?
47500Or would that be too much like living in a row of brick houses in the city?
47500QUESTIONS ON NEST- BUILDING AND NESTING HABITS Which bird does most building, the male, or the female?
47500Rare?
47500The question arises: When do the old birds eat?
47500The question is how can they ever find it unless they do live near a barn?
47500The question is, do these birds-- and others which hoard-- really use their stores?
47500Torrey?"
47500Very good; science has need of you all, but do you know what scientific ornithology-- real ornithology-- is?
47500What is the appearance of the nest?
47500What is the color of legs and feet?
47500What is the shape, color, and size of beak?
47500What materials are used?
47500What syllables best recall some of its notes?
47500What will be the result?
47500What would human parents think of such work?
47500What, now did I see?
47500Where do all these birds spend the night?
47500Where is the roost?
47500Which bird sits upon the eggs?
47500Which bird wakes first in the morning and calls the other?
47500Which one generally wakes first at these times?
47500Which way do they point?
47500Who can tell?
47500Who shall say of any novel that it can have no sequel?
47500Why, then, should not the middle note be heard farthest?
47500Will you allow me to comment on it briefly?
47500Would n''t you like to feed a little family like that sometime?
47500[ Illustration] This is the song of the Yellow- throat, Fluttering gaily beside you; Hear how each voluble note Offers to guide you:_ Which way, sir?
4511Besides, of what is this consciousness composed, whereof we are so proud? 4511 What is the aim of their life, or its pivot?
4511Whither do they tend, and what is it they do?
4511And besides, are we, even in this little human parish of ours, such infallible judges of matters that pertain to the spirit?
4511And further, can we tell how many of the things that we do would shock a being who might be watching us as we watch the bees?
4511And if it seem more natural at first, is it not for the very simple reason that it really explains almost nothing?
4511And if that be so, by whom shall this feebleness be set right?
4511And if we imposed abnormal conditions upon the Panurgi, would these, in their turn, progress from a general corridor to general cells?
4511And if you are not capable even of caring whether you be justly judged or not, of what value can your secret be?
4511And in the case before us, which is right, in the end,--the insect, or nature?
4511And who shall tell how many escape us?
4511And yet may it not be that these questions are idle, and we who are putting them to you mere childish dreamers, hedged round with error and doubt?
4511And yet, were we speaking of man in the manner wherein it were wise perhaps to speak of the bee, is there very much more we could say?
4511Are these movements definitely, and for all time, arrested in each one of these species, and does the connecting- line exist in our imagination alone?
4511But is there anything she does foresee, anything she does intend to preserve?
4511But what becomes of the old sovereign?
4511But who shall tell us how many others that we have not known have fallen victim to her restless and forgetful intellect?
4511But why complete a picture with which all are familiar who have spent some years in the country?
4511Can feebleness at times overcome that supreme reason, which we are apt to invoke when we have attained the limits of our own?
4511Can you distinguish the song that blended so well with the whispering of the leaves?
4511Could this quantity and quality be maintained by other means?
4511Do they obey some God?
4511Does a winged council debate the necessity of the departure?
4511Does an analogous work on the bee exist?
4511Does it only sustain and not raise?
4511Does she command, or haply implore?
4511Does this prodigious emotion issue from her, or is she its victim?
4511Has a cloud that we can not see crept across the sky that the bees are watching; or is their intellect battling with a new regret?
4511Has it not taken us thousands of years to invent a sufficiently plausible explanation for the thunderbolt?
4511Have combs of foundation- wax been offered to the Meliponitae?
4511How does she contrive, from among the myriad eggs her ovaries contain, to separate male from female, and lower them, at will, into the unique oviduct?
4511How does this happen?
4511How is it that if taken in a box to a spot two or three miles from their home, they will almost invariably succeed in finding their way back?
4511How is it that one does not dig too deep, another not deep enough?
4511If the mothers of the humble- bees were compelled to hibernate together, would they arrive at a mutual understanding, a mutual division of labour?
4511Is it for this reason that they have lost sight of all the rest?
4511Is it not possible that herein there may lie one of the perils of the human race?
4511Is she hastening their departure, or trying to delay it?
4511Is this so certain?
4511Little city abounding in faith and mystery and hope, why do your myriad virgins consent to a task that no human slave has ever accepted?
4511May this be a fortuitous music that fails to attain their inward silence?
4511May we not say, too, of man that all his genius is comprised in his fashion of handling kindred necessities?
4511Need we wonder if our knowledge be as scanty as our experience?
4511Or is it merely an exaggerated reaction against the misfortune of the unfruitful queen?
4511Reject it, and what can we set up against it, what can we put in its place?
4511Shall we believe that in bees there exists the same difference of character as in men; that of them too some are gossips, and others prone to silence?
4511Shall we on that account refuse to believe that these snares are pure accidents, occurring in accordance with a routine that is also incidental?
4511Should we be more successful than they in preserving our presence of mind if some strange power were at every step to ensnare our reason?
4511Was this mere chance, or had she followed instructions received?
4511What are the bees to do when we, by force or by fraud, introduce a second queen into the city?
4511What concern is it of ours whether this be a little less or a little more?
4511What far- seeing fatality, taking the place of this one, do we ourselves obey?
4511What is it tells the bees that at this point they must begin, and at that point stop?
4511Whence do they derive the energy we ourselves never possess, whereby they break with the past as though with an enemy?
4511Whence do they issue,--from the being itself, or from the force whence that being draws life?
4511Whence the invariable magical coincidence between the angles of the lozenges?
4511Where has this law been decreed, which, as we soon shall find, is by no means as blind and inevitable as one might believe?
4511Where is the fatality here, save in the love of the race of to- day for the race of to- morrow?
4511Who is it selects from the crowd those who shall go forth, and declares who shall remain?
4511Who shall say where the wisdom resides that can thus balance present and future, and prefer what is not yet visible to that which already is seen?
4511Why all this toil and distress, and whence comes this mighty assurance?
4511Why endeavour to render too logical, or too human, the feelings of little creatures so different from ourselves?
4511Why inquire as to whether this idea be conscious or not?
4511Why try to depict the bees as more perfect than they are, by saying that which is not?
4511Why weigh, with such infinite care, a minute fragment of almost invisible matter, as though it were a fluid whereon depended the destiny of man?
4511Why will they not live as he lives?
4511Would they accept them, would they make use of them, would they conform their habits to this unwonted architecture?
4511Would they not risk the destruction of their species?
4511{ 10} What is this"spirit of the hive"--where does it reside?
4511{ 49} But what have we to do, some will ask, with the intelligence of the bees?
4511{ 62} And whom does the queen- bee obey?
4511{ 89}"But must we always, then,"the poet will wonder,"rejoice in regions that are loftier than the truth?"
21948A cicada is three or four times as large as a wasp, is n''t it?
21948A_ bug_ an elf?
21948And are n''t flies of any use?
21948And are they all good, like the bee and the butterfly?
21948And does the tree- hopper breathe the way the locust does-- through those pores on the side?
21948And hunting, too?
21948And now, children, what do you think?
21948And what does the carpenter- bee do?
21948And what else do we need?
21948And what is the difference between the leaf- hoppers and the tree- hoppers?
21948And, mother,asked Betty,"what does make everything so pretty?"
21948Are there solitary wasps,asked Jimmie,"just as there are solitary bees?"
21948Are they always pretty?
21948Briers are n''t good for bare legs, are they? 21948 But are n''t the bees ever idle?"
21948But do all caterpillars turn into moths or butterflies?
21948But is a caterpillar an insect, and is a butterfly an insect?
21948But then, after you caught it, how could you keep it, sir?
21948But what kind of bee''s- nest did old Paw Bear get into?
21948But, first, where do you suppose the crickets and katydids have their ears?
21948Can you find their eggs?
21948Can you swim this way?
21948Could n''t you tell us something, sir? 21948 Could n''t?
21948Dear me, where are we? 21948 Did stewed apricots, soda- biscuits, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, ever taste so good?
21948Did they carry them all the way out, mother?
21948Did you ever wonder how the little fat worms get inside of chestnuts and acorns? 21948 Did you leave something in the baggage- car for Max to eat?"
21948Do any children here,called Ben Gile, for the third time,"know of a family nobody likes?
21948Do bees always feed their children on nectar and pollen?
21948Do n''t they breathe just the way we do?
21948Do the birds eat katydids?
21948Do you hear that?
21948Do you know how it hurts to have your leg torn off, boy? 21948 Do you know of a family around here,"called the guide,"whom nobody likes?"
21948Do you know what it is?
21948Do you think you know where they are? 21948 Do you want to hear?"
21948Does the caterpillar make the silk our dresses are made from?
21948Eat one another?
21948Has n''t it? 21948 Have you ever seen a big cicada which makes the long, rasping sound in the trees?
21948How do they live when they are babies?
21948How does it make its mouth move, sir?
21948How far can you go, anyway?
21948How many wings,asked Mrs. Reece,"has a fly?"
21948I wonder whether any little girl here knows why flies should not be allowed in the house?
21948Is n''t it? 21948 Is n''t there, my son?
21948Is that what he does his beating with?
21948Is that why it does n''t sing by day?
21948Like the crickets?
21948Listen, children, what does it say?
21948Looks like a horse, does n''t it?
21948Mother, what are the baddest ones?
21948Mother, what''s a romance?
21948Mother, what''s that word mean?
21948Mother, when will it be lunch?
21948Mother,said Betty, eating her second piece of chocolate cake--"mother, what will Ben Gile tell us this summer?"
21948Not any more? 21948 Of course, you goose,"said Jimmie;"you do n''t expect to hatch a duck from a hen''s egg, do you?"
21948Oh, mother,said Jimmie,"what does make things taste so good out- of- doors?"
21948Oh,said Betty,"then it has n''t got any nose?
21948Please, is it happy, then?
21948Please, sir, do_ you_ eat grasshoppers?
21948Please, sir, were they cousins?
21948Please, sir,said Betty, coming right up to the bucket he was washing in the brook--"please, sir, do you know any stories about grasshoppers?"
21948Please, sir,said Jack,"are we going to have something soon?"
21948Selling them to what?
21948That pretty little thing,exclaimed Betty,"with the gauzy wings?"
21948That''s something like the ants, sir, is n''t it?
21948Then does it live forever?
21948Then how?
21948Then that is what my nymph is doing,asked Jack,"when it wiggles its gills so?"
21948Then, please, sir, wo n''t you tell us something else?
21948Those are interesting elves I''ve been telling you about, are n''t they?
21948Tired?
21948Visiting- bees?
21948Well, well, well,murmured the old man,"did she?
21948Well, what is there about an old grasshopper, anyhow?
21948Well,said the guide to Jim,"then how does it make its music, since you know?"
21948What are we going to put the bugs in?
21948What do you call it a worm for?
21948What does Mamma Lace- Wing do with her eggs?
21948What does pupate mean?
21948What happens when it changes?
21948What happens?
21948What is it?
21948What is it?
21948What kind of a beetle do you suppose it was?
21948What makes a fly bite?
21948What makes a little fellow like this able to do so much damage?
21948What makes them so big?
21948What shall I do, sir?
21948What was it?
21948What''s that?
21948What''s that?
21948What''s this?
21948When they hatch out, what do they look like?
21948Where do mosquitoes lay eggs?
21948Where is it?
21948Who wants to know about a June- bug?
21948Why did n''t we think of that? 21948 Why do n''t you sew on a dress for Belinda?"
21948Will Mr. Burroughs hurt us?
21948Yes,said Betty;"but do the workers have to work all the time?"
21948You felt that?
21948You mean woolly bears?
21948You remember, I told you about the thousands of facets in the big eyes of the darning- needle? 21948 You''ll tell me a story, wo n''t you?"
21948You''re having a good time before you can say Jack Robinson, are n''t you?
21948And now, what else?"
21948And we who wrote this book?
21948Are all the beetles harmful?"
21948Are four pans of cookies enough for five children?"
21948Are n''t there any beetles that live in the water, Ben?"
21948At last Jack ventured,"Was it a potato- bug, sir?"
21948Betty came out from behind the tree and whispered,"You eat them_ both_?"
21948But do you expect a child_ always_ to be good?
21948By- and- by the guide put his head out of his cabin door and called,"How many have you?"
21948Ca n''t you tell us something of the wasp?
21948Did hot cakes and syrup ever make the butter fly so fast?"
21948Do you know how he makes his music?"
21948Do you know, children?"
21948Do you remember the pansies mother had in the winter, and how they were all covered by green plant- lice?
21948Do you remember what I told you about Mrs. Locust, Betty, and the way she lays her eggs?"
21948Do you understand that?"
21948Does n''t any one know?
21948Does this seem a little bit like a sermon?
21948Guess of what it was made?
21948Guess what I saw lying cuddled down in many of these rooms?
21948Have you ever seen the little baskets which working bees have for carrying pollen?
21948How did you look?"
21948Is it any wonder that these workers, who have so much to do and so many cares from morning until night, die very young?
21948Is it time for supper yet?"
21948It began,''Once upon a time,''did n''t it?"
21948It''s one o''clock; ca n''t we have something now?"
21948It''s very nice what, mother?"
21948LITTLE BUSYBODIES I THE JOURNEY"It will be stories all summer, wo n''t it?"
21948Mrs. Reece, what do you think?"
21948No one?
21948Perhaps you remember that insects have knots of nerve cells, connected by nerve threads, extending from one end of the body to the other?
21948Please, sir, are they happy when they jump?"
21948See here, Jack, what have you on your fingers?"
21948See that damsel fly, the slender, smaller, pretty- colored darning- needle?
21948See these three little leaf- shaped gills I''ve drawn?"
21948Suppose some one said there was nothing to say about you except that you whistle?"
21948They sat down around the fire, and Mrs. Reece continued,"Do n''t you think it would be fun to pop corn while we''re hearing about the brownies?"
21948VI FISHING Have you ever started off on a bright, cool morning to fish?
21948Very unlike the sweetened water in the flower- cups, is n''t it?
21948Was n''t that a clever thing for a wasp to do?
21948What book is it, children, that uses the''pit of destruction''so often as a figure?"
21948What color?"
21948What makes them bad?"
21948Who is Isabella?"
21948Who knows the difference between a butterfly and a moth?
21948Why, see here, Pete, what have you got here?"
21948Will they ever taste so good again?
21948X A NAGGING FAMILY"Do you know of a family around here whom no one likes?"
21948You have all seen moths and butterflies?
21948You have all seen the rainbow of colors on a soap- bubble?
21948You know how big a pound is, do n''t you?
21948You know the old adage,''Haste makes waste''?
21948You remember, do you not, that the locust has a pair of soft jaws covering over the dark, hard ones?
21948[ Illustration: LEAF- CUTTER BEE]"Did you ever look closely at a bee?
21948[ Illustration: Pit of the Ant- Lion]"Has it any cousins, like the locust?"
21948are n''t its eyes big?"
21948exclaimed the old man,"what have we here?"
21948said Betty,"it does n''t use its mouth, then?
21948said Jimmie,"if that is what a short- tongued bee can do, what can a long- tongued bee do?"
21948she panted, catching up with them,"and what can you be doing without the victuals, I''d like to know?"
50777And do you really think,said the sun,"that you, who have given life to others, have no life yourselves?
50777Are we not alive?
50777Are we not alive?
50777Are we not alive?
50777But_ may_ she not fall asleep?
50777Do you envy them?
50777Have you come to thaw me?
50777What will the others say when they see me?
50777What, only brown?
50777), its breast is white, but its throat-- oh, its throat!--what is it?
50777Ah, was there ever such a sweet little gem- bird?
50777And even if you can never see a living Bird of Paradise-- as I daresay you never will be able to-- what then?--what then?
50777And is there any artist so great as the artist who made it, who made that bird or animal, that picture with a life inside it?
50777And now, what would you say to a Black Bird of Paradise?
50777Are there_ no_ feathers that can be worn in hats without its doing any harm at all-- without any bird being killed to get them?
50777As softly as a snowflake falls upon snow?
50777As softly as two gossamers are blown together in the air?
50777As softly, then, as your mother kisses you when you are asleep, and she does not wish to wake you?
50777But do you think the angels_ despise_ us?
50777But does that save all the beautiful birds in the world?
50777But have you not heard of a black diamond?
50777But is it not curious that the"funny feathers"of_ this_ Bird of Paradise are in his head instead of in his tail?
50777But is not that a funny way to love her-- to shoot her children?
50777But is not that cruel?
50777But is there any picture of a bird or animal, that is so beautiful or so wonderful as that bird or animal itself?
50777But now is it not very strange that any bird should have a tail like that-- a tail that is shaped like Apollo''s lyre?
50777But now, how are the birds to be saved-- for_ we_ want them_ all_ to escape-- and how are the women to be saved?
50777But now, why do the Indians call the Humming- birds living sunbeams?
50777But then, what would be the use of promising about thirteen when there are four hundred and more?
50777But was it not horribly cruel?
50777But why, then, are they called Birds of Paradise if they live here on the earth?
50777But_ has_ he anything else-- any other kind of beauty_ besides_ what I have told you about?
50777Can anything be happier than the life of a bird?
50777Can you think of any other creatures that are quite so beautiful?
50777Can you understand any one_ wanting_ to kill him?
50777Could one think of a prettier little bird than he is-- unless one tried a good deal?
50777Did I say,"Such a little fairy- bird"?
50777Do they ever look at them after they have once bought them?
50777Do you think it would be so_ very_ interesting for people to know how you broke a very handsome ornament in your mother''s drawing- room?
50777Do you think your mother would make a promise about all the birds?
50777Do you wonder at that?
50777How could they dance and play about as they do, if they were?
50777How did this one get those white patches, and are they really snowflakes that fell upon him?
50777How would your dear mother like to be treated in such a way for being_ neat_ and_ tidy_, which I am sure she is?
50777If you could, then some one would soon say to you:"Will you part with a few of your smiles?
50777Is he to be killed and killed till he is gone for ever, and there is not one more beautiful Black Bird of Paradise in the whole world?
50777Is it not shocking?
50777Is it not terrible?
50777Is there any way of explaining this, or, rather, do we know how to explain it?
50777Is there anything so beautiful as they?
50777It is not very wonderful that_ he_ knows nothing of them, is it?
50777It is only asking, and what can be easier than to ask something of your mother?
50777Now is not_ that_ a most cruel trick to play upon a bird who only wants to keep his drawing- room in proper order?
50777Now what are things that you can not sell for money?
50777Or the Chaffinch, or Greenfinch, or Linnet?
50777Shall I tell you what such wings are like?
50777So, now, what happened after the wicked little demon had behaved in this wicked way?
50777That is different to being just brown like a sparrow, is it not?
50777Then is he a Humming- bird at all?
50777Then is there no way of saving them both, the poor birds and the poor women?
50777Then the Robin with_ his_ crimson breast, and his little round ball of a body-- what bird could be prettier?
50777Then which of the two are you to believe in?
50777Then, when they come and find them, they kill them( could_ you_ kill a living sunbeam?
50777Well, of course, there is an_ enormous_ amount of beauty and happiness at things of that kind; but is it_ all_ beauty and happiness?
50777Well, then, but what is to be done?
50777What beautiful bird is this that has come to dwell amongst us?
50777What can it be called?
50777What do the young ones do when the parent birds-- their own fathers and mothers-- have been shot?
50777What two more beautiful birds could you see than they, as they hop about over the lawn of your garden in the early dewy morning?
50777What would you think if you were to go out for a walk and see a bird flying about with a yellow plush or yellow velvet head?
50777Where would be the beauty and the happiness now?
50777Yes, and you might almost say,"Where is his head?"
50777You will do this, will you not?
50777_ When_ you have imagined him-- or before you have, if you are not able to-- you must make your mother promise-- now what?
50777said the sunbeams;"and does nobody envy us on that account?"
50777was it not?
6052And how did it manage all that weaving with its beak only?
6052And how does the pika survive?
6052And is not that really about_ all_ that we do know?
6052And then what?
6052And what are we to conclude from all the foregoing?
6052And what does he do to save himself, and insure the survival of the fittest?
6052And who has not seen the same trait revealed in crowds of boys?
6052Are they entitled to call chimpanzees, elephants, bears and dogs"lower animals?"
6052But are they wise, and retiring, like the house- haunting gopher snake of the South?
6052But did the grizzly cub cower and shrink?
6052But does the wild jungle- fowl, the ancestor of our domestic chicken, indulge in all those noisy expressions of thought and feeling?
6052But is it really free from fear?
6052But what does it all matter on earth, if we keep to the straight path, and rest our faith upon the Great Unseen Power that we call God?
6052But what is the case with the elephant?
6052But would they accept it in a grateful spirit, and utilize it?
6052By what do migrating birds guide their courses high in air on a pitch- dark night,--their busy time for flying?
6052Can any animal below man be educated in the proper sense of the word?
6052Can it be possible that any one of them really refuses to concede to the wild animal the possession of a mind, and a working intelligence?
6052Did he go limping about over the landscape, to attract enemies from afar, and be quickly shot by a man or torn to pieces by wolves?
6052Did they learn it by observing the ways of man?
6052Did those little animals collect and place those joints because of their defensive stickers,--with deliberate forethought and intention?
6052Do I hear any objections?"
6052Do Snakes Swallow Their Young?
6052Do Snakes"Charm"Birds?
6052Do the big sea- lions and the walruses seek to drive away or exterminate the neighboring fur seals or the helpless hair seals?
6052Do the brown bears and grizzlies of Alaska wage war upon each other, species against species?
6052Do the moose and caribou of Alaska and Yukon Territory attack the mountain sheep and goats?
6052Do they"think,"or"reason,"any more than the animals I have named?
6052Do they, too, know about the mariner''s Southern Cross, and steer by it on starlit nights?
6052Does any species of giraffe, zebra, antelope or buffalo attack any other species on the same crowded plains of British East Africa?
6052Does the Indian elephant attack the gaur, the sambar, the axis deer or the muntjac?
6052From many a palace there stands forth the perpetual question:"_ Why_ did he do it?"
6052Has the dog learned from man the science of moral banditry, the best methods for the concealment of evidence, and how to dissemble?
6052How do they know where to go, far into the heart of the South, to find rest, food and security?
6052How long would it take a man to unravel that nest, wisp by wisp, and resolve it into a loose pile of materials?
6052IV.--THE BASER PASSIONS XXII FEAR AS A RULING PASSION If we were asked,"Which one may be called the ruling passion of the wild animal?"
6052If man possesses a soul of lofty stature, why not a soul of lowly stature for the chimpanzee?
6052If the trainer does not know which are the brightest species of apes, baboons and monkeys, then who does?
6052If there were not some kind of a hypnotic spell cast over the bird, would it not fly away?
6052In one case it appears to mean"How do you do?"
6052Instead of bowling away for two or three miles and getting clear out of the danger zone and hiding in the nearest timber, what do they do?
6052Is it because you bear a charmed life?
6052Is it not wonderful-- the mentality of the gray rabbit?
6052Is it not wonderful?
6052Is it the duty of the American people to stop all performances by animals?
6052Is it true that captive animals in zoological parks and gardens are miserable and unhappy, and that all such institutions should be"abolished?"
6052Is it true that in making animals perform on the stage, or in the circus ring, their rights are wickedly infringed?
6052Is it true that trained wild animals are cruelly abused in the training, or in compelling them to perform?
6052Is it wicked to make wild animals, or cats and dogs,_ work_ for a living, as men and women do?
6052Is there anyone left who still believes the ancient and bizarre legend that mountain sheep rams jump off cliffs and alight upon their horns?
6052Now, has he anything"on"the performing bear?
6052Now, have those primitive creatures"immortal souls?"
6052Now, is it not a wonder that_ any_ rabbits remain alive in Pennsylvania?
6052Now, what is the truth of this matter?
6052Now, what were the ideas and emotions of the bear?
6052Now, why did not all the bears of North America share the fate of the lions and the tigers?
6052Now_ what_ did it all mean?"
6052Often is the question asked,"If a grizzly bear and a tiger should fight, which would whip the other?"
6052Or did it come by heredity, just like walking?
6052Perhaps the answer is-- instinct; but if so, how was it acquired?
6052Said the Count to Julia in"The Hunchback,""Dost thou like the picture, dearest?"
6052Some deer have far too much curiosity, too much desire to know"What is that?"
6052The most serious question has been: What shall be left out?
6052The only real question is: how far does their intelligence carry them?
6052To the question,"Have wild animals souls?"
6052To what else shall they be attributed than philosophic reasoning on the part of the elephant?
6052Twice in my life all my traps and poisons have utterly failed, and left me faintly asking:_ Are_ rats possessed of occult powers?
6052Uncountable pages of controversial letters have been expended upon the question:"Does the puma ever scream, like a woman in distress?"
6052Very often the question is asked:"Is the African elephant equal in intelligence and training capacity to the Indian species?"
6052Was it strategy?
6052Was it the result of quail thought and reason?
6052What animal will go farthest in daring and defying man, even the man with a gun, in foraging for food?
6052What animals are the best exponents of animal intelligence?
6052What are a thousand deer eyes compared with a twelve inch horn thrust through your stomach?
6052What are you going to do next?"
6052What did a wild buffalo do when he found himself with a broken leg, and unable to travel, but otherwise sound?
6052What is the unsolved mystery of your tiny existence in this rough and cruel world?"
6052What is truth?
6052What will it do?
6052When and where do they stop on the way to feed?
6052When the lion found himself caught, did his capture trouble him?
6052Who can say?
6052Who gave to any warm- blooded animal that consumes food and requires shelter the right to live without work?
6052Who has not seen squirrels at play?
6052Who taught the oriole how to find and to weave those rare and hard- to- find materials?
6052Why are those powerful and dangerous apes afraid of that absurd toy?
6052Why experiment with stupid and nerveless white rats when pack rats are so cheap?
6052Why is it that the golden plover feels that it is worth while to fly from the arctic coast to Argentina?
6052Will we ever succeed in outwitting her, and in getting one of her babies alive into a baby incubator?
6052and"What is it all about?"
39206''But how''ll they eat us up, Mr. Beasley? 39206 ''Hoppers is coming boy; see that sort o''shiny thin cloud up there jest off the edge o''the sun?
39206Ah- um, real? 39206 And did my mother starve to death too?"
39206And have only one day to live when I''m all grown up?
39206And the little brown ants do all this so as to get honey- dew from the aphids?
39206And will they ever evade Kansas again?
39206Are they trying to bite her?
39206But have the hoppers come back any time since 1876?
39206But we''ve got to relieve the gloom of this tale someway, do n''t you think? 39206 But what are you going to do with the rake?"
39206But what made them come to Kansas? 39206 But where is she then?
39206But why should he shed his skin? 39206 But why,"asked Mary,"does Argiope wrap the fly up so carefully in silk?
39206But you want to know the end of it Mary, do n''t you? 39206 But, then, why did n''t they stay there, where there were corn- fields and wheatfields and vegetables?"
39206But_ what_ can I see to- morrow?
39206Did n''t the book say that?
39206Do n''t any of the poor May- flies live for more than one evening?
39206Do the little black and blue wasps hunt the little spiders and the larger ones the big spiders?
39206Do you know Professor Forbes? 39206 Does the mother lay the eggs in these little white cushions and then go away and leave them?"
39206Fall in where? 39206 Further query: Does Argiope distinguish bees_ with stings_ from bees with_ stings extracted_?
39206How can she run about on the sticky web without getting caught, too?
39206How did they come from Australia?
39206It_ is_ wonderful, is n''t it, Mary? 39206 Not all beautiful things in the world are good, are they?"
39206Now, Mary, what was it you asked?
39206Of course you know, Mary, that the web is made of two kinds of silk or rather two kinds of lines? 39206 Query: Does Argiope distinguish bees from flies?
39206The new skin they have just got, with the wings and everything?
39206Then what weapon shall I carry?
39206Well,says Mary,"even if she wants him for her children to eat, it''s a real vendetta, is n''t it?"
39206What can I see right away; to- morrow?
39206What can I_ see_?
39206What is that?
39206What to do? 39206 Where did the little Thousand Islands May- flies come from, and why do the people there want to know about them?"
39206Where did the red beetles come from?
39206Where is its home? 39206 Where, Mary, do you think is the likeliest place for the dragon?"
39206Why should he shed his old skin and get a new one? 39206 Why the animated honey- jars; did n''t I say what?
39206Why, Mary, where did you learn that?
39206Why, how absurd,replied the winged Orange- dweller,"do n''t you see I have nothing to eat with?
39206With luncheon in?
39206Yes, I see,said Mary, demurely, and-- can it be that Mary is slightly winking one eye?
39206Yes, but were n''t you surprised that first time you saw them in the Sentinel year?
39206''Who are coming, Mr. Beasley?
392062, and hence needing no attention?
39206And an undaunted worker?
39206And so I am trying to introduce a little jocularity into it, do n''t you see, Mary?"
39206Are they dead?
39206Because we think that other animals can not do what would be a very simple thing indeed for us?
39206Bless me, what''s the use of going to Europe anyway, if you learn everything about everywhere in the grades?
39206But how is this extraordinary condition brought about?
39206But is a truthful man to be kept silent by criticism or abuse, or, on the other hand, is he to surrender, even for cash, to bad examples?
39206But is that what those boys over there are doing?
39206But one must live, and why not ant- lions as well as ants?
39206But what of Eurypelma, the killer?
39206But whence comes this sublime instinct?
39206But where is Mary in all this digression of mine?
39206But why should the loopers be only paralyzed instead of killed?
39206But, no, it was an_ Aphænogaster_ that--"A feeno- gasser?"
39206Can theories of atavism, of selection, of the struggle for life, interpret it reasonably?"
39206Did you really guess it, or not guess it, but actually reason it out for yourself?
39206Do n''t you call that clever, Mary?"
39206Do n''t you?"
39206Do they commit Baedeker to memory nowadays in the schools?
39206Do you have any wasp in your neighborhood of the ferocity and strength and size of Pepsis?
39206Do you know a handsomer?
39206Do you want to hear about it?"
39206Does it build a house out of wood?
39206Does it seem wonderful to you?
39206Does one stab suffice for such a giant caterpillar?
39206Especially will it do so when the prey is small and weak?
39206Get me out of what?"
39206Has n''t he any skin now?"
39206Have they come to settle and stay in Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa?
39206Have you ever heard any one tell about this?
39206How is that, Mary?"
39206How long will they keep up this devastation?
39206How would you like to be a May- fly?"
39206I ask,"and shall I begin?"
39206I go on, more slowly, but still without very much hesitation:"But, of course, we sha''n''t do that, shall we?"
39206Is it memory which traces their aerial way across regions seen for the first time?
39206Is that the way you lecture to your classes?"
39206Is the new one different; a different color or shape or something?"
39206Is this not a creature of wits, this Kansas wasp?
39206It will be fine, wo n''t it?"
39206It''s much more beautiful and interesting there than in Kansas, is n''t it?"
39206It_ is_ catching, is n''t it?
39206No?
39206Oh, you did n''t know?"
39206One morning a man stood among the trees and said,''Confound these bugs; they''ll ruin me; what shall I do?''
39206Or are you of those who have prejudices, and hold all spiders to be ugly, hateful things?
39206Or would n''t they simply dig their way with their heavy jaws out of the hole and away?
39206Or, indeed, could the slender- bodied mother wasp carry and handle successfully a strong squirming looper over an inch long?
39206See?"
39206Sha''n''t we go and see them?"
39206So how could he live at all without a skin?
39206Suddenly Mary called out:"Why, what has happened to Fuzzy?
39206That is n''t exactly building, but it is at least a kind of carpentering, a sort of--""Is this one?"
39206That seems quite certain, does n''t it?
39206Then she said softly,"But how will he get anything to eat?"
39206Then, what to do?
39206Was it well with him?
39206Was there any queen left in our hive?
39206We do seem to have trouble keeping to Fuzzy and her life, do n''t we?
39206Were Mary and I excited?
39206What are the worms for?
39206What are they?
39206What determines which queen shall leave the hive with the swarm?
39206What is it you take of her?
39206What will the country do in the future for corn and wheat and pigs and fat cattle?
39206What, then, shall the hungering baby aphids and their foster- mothers, the little brown ants, do?
39206Who could be coming from the sun to eat us up?
39206Why did n''t they stay in the Rocky Mountains?
39206Why not just kill it by biting, and then leave it in the web until she wants it?"
39206Why should n''t a dragon change his skin if a snake can?
39206Why?
39206Will she bring more?
39206Will she fill the hole full of worms?
39206Yes, before my little Orange- dweller children are born--""What,"cried Citrinus,"are you an Orange- dweller; you, who are so different from me?"
39206You know what a wonderfully beautiful lake Lucerne is, of course, Mary?"
39206You remember, do n''t you, Mary, how our dragons of Lagunita would snap up the young May- flies in Monday Pond?
39206[ Illustration: A SUMMER INVASION] A SUMMER INVASION"Are you comfortable, Mary?"
39206and beat on the table as I say this until the pens and paper hop, and Mary asks,"No what?"
39206said Mary;"and were there horrible people in the bottom, and crows?"
47600& c._ SCOLIA FLAVIFRONS?
47600( Lamia s.) HABITAT:(----?
47600----?
47600----?
4760024.?
47600Abdomen probably of a dark mazarine blue[?]
47600Antennæ----?
47600BARIDIUS?
47600BARIDIUS?
47600BLATTA( BLABERUS) GIGANTEA?
47600BLATTA( BLABERUS) GIGANTEA?
47600BLATTA( POLYPHAGA) ÆGYPTIACA?
47600BLATTA( POLYPHAGA) ÆGYPTIACA?
47600BOTYS,_ Latr._ SUBGENUS: Desmia?
47600Blatta Gigantea?
47600Blatta Ægyptiaca?
47600CALANDRA SERRIROSTRIS[ female]?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CALLIMORPHA?
47600CHASMODIA?
47600CHASMODIA?
47600CHASMODIA?
47600Calandra serrirostris[ male]?
47600Curculio p._ Linn._ CALANDRA SERRIROSTRIS[ female]?
47600CÆLIOXYS?
47600CÆLIOXYS?
47600CÆLIOXYS?
47600DEIOPEIA?
47600DEIOPEIA?
47600DEIOPEIA?
47600EREBUS?
47600EREBUS?
47600EREBUS?
47600FAMILY: Arctiidæ?
47600FAMILY: Curculionidæ, SUBFAMILY: Entimides?
47600FAMILY: Evaniidæ?
47600FAMILY: Noctuidæ?
47600FAMILY: Scoliidæ?
47600GLAUCOPIS?
47600GLAUCOPIS?
47600Gryllacris maculicollis[ male]?
47600Gymnautocera?
47600HABITAT:(----?
47600HABITAT:(----?
47600HIPPORHINUS?
47600HIPPORHINUS?
47600HYDROCAMPA?
47600HYDROCAMPA?
47600HYDROCAMPA?
47600LAMIA( MONOCHAMUS) DENTATOR?
47600LIPARIS?
47600LIPARIS?
47600LIPARIS?
47600NOCTUA?
47600NOCTUA?
47600ODONESTIS?
47600Olim._) GLAUCOPIS?
47600PETASIA?
47600PETASIA?
47600PETASIA?
47600PREPODES,_ Sch._?
47600PREPODES,_ Sch_.?
47600PREPODES?
47600PREPODES?
47600PREPODES?
47600Phalæna Astynome?
47600Phalæna(----?
47600Prepodes?
47600Prepodes?
47600Pylotis?
47600SCOLIA FLAVIFRONS?
47600SCOLIA?
47600SCOLIA?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47600SECTION: Fossores?
47600South America?
47600Sphinx Crantor?
47600VENILIA?
47600VENILIA?
47600[ Illustration] BARIDIUS?
47600[ Illustration] BOTYS( DESMIA?)
47600[ Illustration] CALLIMORPHA?
47600[ female]?
47600[ male]?
47600_ Auct._ NOCTUA?
47600_ Germar._ Phalæna( Noctua),_ Drury._ ODONESTIS?
47600_ Latr._ SUBGENUS:----?
47600_ Latr._ Setina p._ Schr._ Phalæna( Bombyx),_ Drury._ CALLIMORPHA?
47600_ No._ 2.?
47600_ f._ 2.?
47600_ f._ 88.?
47600_ fig._ C?
47600_ t._ 1?
47600d''Ent._ BOTYS( DESMIA?)
47600olim._) GLAUCOPIS?
47600t._ 58?
47600{ 23}ODONESTIS?
47600{ 41}VENILIA?
47600{ 56}GLAUCOPIS?
47600{ 65}PREPODES?
47600{ 76}SCOLIA?
1887''Has she finished her web?
1887After this cannibal orgy, does the Lycosa go back home?
1887All things considered, is not this charming edifice an animal fruit, a germ- casket, a capsule to be compared with that of the plants?
1887And have we not the tarentella, a lively and nimble dance, bequeathed to us perhaps by the healing art of the Calabrian peasant?
1887And how?
1887And what does she do in there, under her arch of withered flowers and silk?
1887And what does this cosy mass protect?
1887And what?
1887Are we face to face with a similar process?
1887Are we to recognize a mere effect of organic structure in the Epeira''s art?
1887As the technical name tells the reader nothing, how shall he be informed?
1887Besides, is it really a corpse that the Epeira wants, she who feeds on blood much more than on flesh?
1887But is that all?
1887But on what?
1887But the little things are at the mercy of the winds: where will they alight?
1887But what shall we say of the Cricket, who is exposed to a thousand mishaps when away from home?
1887But where?
1887But why drag in''Clotho''?
1887By what miracle is there room for such a family?
1887Can dissymetry, that source of contrasts, be a general rule?
1887Can he be unscathed, in spite of the sort of kiss which I saw given to him just now?
1887Can it be that they derive sustenance from the silken wrapper?
1887Can it be to protect themselves from the too- vivid light?
1887Can it then be a premeditated design on the part of the Epeira?
1887Can she be more clear- sighted than the Lycosa?
1887Can something unusual be afoot?
1887Can the animal be deceived by the soft contact of the cork?
1887Can the expression_ onustus_ refer simply to her slow and sidelong walk?
1887Can there be calculation, measurement of angles, gauging of the parallel by means of the eye or otherwise?
1887Can this other mother have so great a need as that to eat?
1887Did I guess aright when I judged that it was a fatty substance that preserved the Epeira from the snares of her sticky Catherine- wheel?
1887Do they eat their house?
1887Does it contain gleams that contrive, wishes that pursue a definite object?
1887Does she come to their assistance and help them to regain their place on her back?
1887Does she give up hunting during this period, of bright sunlight?
1887Does she invite them to the banquet when she has secured a prize?
1887Does she work imperturbably?
1887Does the Epeira know the secret of fatty substances?
1887Does the Lycosa at least feed the younglings who, for seven months, swarm upon her back?
1887Does the Spider kill the patient with a view to avoiding unseasonable jerks, protests so disagreeable at dinner- time?
1887Does the Spider possess the counterpart of this habit of clear thinking?
1887Does the mother give them a thought?
1887For what reason?
1887Has she caught a Moth?''
1887How comes it that the Tarantula always has the upper hand and this moreover in a very short conflict, whence she emerges unscathed?
1887How do they know?
1887How do those thousands of legs manage to grow without straining themselves?
1887How does she make her exits and her entrances?
1887How does she obtain, at will, skeins of diverse hues and grades?
1887How does she turn them out, first in this fashion, then in that?
1887How does the Epeira come to succeed with her difficult problem, so strangely managed?
1887How does the Spider direct an establishment of this kind?
1887How does the bird proceed, in order to knit its stocking?
1887How has he, in his distant corner, heard of the presence of the nymph ripe for marriage?
1887How is she apprised?
1887How is the silky matter moulded into a capillary tube?
1887How is this brought about?
1887How is this tube filled with glue and tightly twisted?
1887How will they set to work to achieve this distant exodus, weaklings that they are, taking such very tiny steps?
1887How will this living fruit, ripening in the heat beloved of the Cicadae, manage to burst?
1887How, above all, will dissemination take place?
1887How, with such simple implements as its beak and claws, does it manage to produce a fabric which our skilled fingers would fail to achieve?
1887If I persuaded them to bite me, what would happen to me?
1887If some giddy- pate allow himself to be caught, will the Spider, at the distance whereto she has retired, be unable to take advantage of the windfall?
1887If we would carve an epitaph of some duration, what could we find better than a Beetle''s wing- case, a Snail''s shell or a Spider''s web?
1887In case of such a disaster, would the Spider go back to the sandy stalactites, as a ready means of restoring stability?
1887Instead of that, what do we find?
1887Is disordered the word?
1887Is it a dream, or the anticipation of a remote reality?
1887Is it a mere dream in the night of the intricate, an abstract riddle flung out for our understanding to browse upon?
1887Is it an animal, a fluff of wool, a cluster of small seeds fastened to one another?
1887Is it the whim of a nomenclator, at a loss for words to denote the ever- swelling tide of beasts that require cataloguing?
1887Is that all she can do?
1887Is the animal, on its side, right- handed, left- handed, or unbiased?
1887Is this the right moment?
1887Is what I have just seen due to accident or to premeditation?
1887Must we take these queer things seriously or laugh at them?
1887Now what do the youngsters do, while their mother is being eaten?
1887Now what does she do in her softly- wadded home?
1887Now what does the Epeira do in the face of this disaster?
1887Once more, with what do the little ones keep up their strength?
1887One would say so; but does the Spider know how to patch her work, as a thrifty housewife darns her linen?
1887Or are there neutrals, endowed with equal powers of skill and energy on both sides?
1887Or does she need undisturbed quiet?
1887Running the risk of being eaten alive, will he venture to plunge into his lady''s cave, into a lair whence flight would be impossible?
1887Shall he go closer?
1887Shall not hunger, which brings the wolf from the wood, also bring the Tarantula out of her hole?
1887The question at once presents itself: Does the Spider possibly recognize her fabric by certain trademarks and distinguish it from that of her fellows?
1887Then by what mechanism is the delivery effected?
1887Then how comes it that, of the five mothers reared in my cages, not one has had recourse to the clay rampart?
1887Then where are the digging- implements?
1887Then where is the entrance?
1887Then why should she collect those prizes, whose slimy flesh is probably not to her taste?
1887Then with what are they sustained, during their seven months''upbringing on the mother''s back?
1887To what shall we attribute the heat expended upon action, when the animal takes absolutely no nourishment?
1887Up to what point are we to generalize?
1887Well, what can this gem among Spiders do?
1887Well, what has the Spider done to keep the gossamer stretched, to steady it and to make it retain its greatest capacity?
1887What am I to do?
1887What are the methods, what the wiles of atom contending with atom?
1887What are they doing there, so quietly?
1887What becomes of them when they have a fall?
1887What bird- catcher could vie with the Garden Spider in the art of laying lime- snares?
1887What can the Clotho do with a_ Pupa cinerea_, a_ Pupa quadridens_ and other narrow spirals wherein the animal retreats to an inaccessible depth?
1887What do the little ones eat, on the maternal spine?
1887What guides her?
1887What has happened?
1887What infinitely tiny Midges does she capture before possessing the strength to stab her Bee?
1887What is it that she really wants?
1887What is the object of this circular motion?
1887What is the purpose of this turret?
1887What is the withered thing waiting for, before expiring?
1887What is this point?
1887What is this?
1887What reason can we allege for this neglect?
1887What will happen if I procure her the visit of a Banded Epeira?
1887What will posterity do in face of the rising tide of a barbarous vocabulary which, under the pretence of progress, stifles real knowledge?
1887What will the Spiders do, when thus put to the test of the unknown?
1887What will the homeless Spider do?
1887What will the spider do in the presence of this grievous rent?
1887What would happen if matters, instead of being brought about by my wiles, took place in the open fields?
1887What would happen if one robbed an old dwelling, long since completed, of its outer covering?
1887What would happen if the two belonged to the same species?
1887When and how is the burrow obtained wherein the Lycosa, once a vagrant, now a stay- at- home, is to spend the remainder of her long life?
1887When calm is restored, she resumes her attitude, ceaselessly pondering the harsh problem of life:''Shall I dine to- day, or not?''
1887When will this sublime metamorphosis be accomplished?
1887Where are the eggs?
1887Where could she store enough fuel to keep up mobility during so long a period?
1887Where did the murderess strike her?
1887Where do these glairy creatures pick up this science?
1887Where is she to place the pockets of eggs, if the ruins of the previous laying remain in the way?
1887Where shall I find again the wonderful spectacle which the Cross Spider offered me by chance?
1887Where shall we find in the Penduline''s mattress aught to vie with the Epeira''s eiderdown, that teazled russet gossamer?
1887Where will it be effected?
1887Where would it stow the necessary reserves for such an amount of work?
1887Which of the two bandits shall have the best of it?
1887Who contrived this window, which was not there at first?
1887Who shall tell us all the wiles employed by this clever and daring huntress?
1887Why at a distance?
1887Why not live on sun, seeing that, after all, we find naught but sun in the fruits which we consume?
1887Why not?
1887Why should I not to- day imitate that expert butcher, the Tarantula?
1887Why should not physical science step in as well?
1887Why should so many admirable lives be sacrificed to the greater prosperity of brigandage?
1887Why should there be workers to feed idlers, why sweated to keep sweaters in luxury?
1887Why these rambles?
1887Why, moreover, does this line always start in the centre of the sticky network and nowhere else?
1887Why?
1887Why?
1887Why?
1887Why?
1887Why?
1887Will it never be given to us to probe reality in a simpler fashion?
1887Will our intelligence be able one day to dispense with the heavy arsenal of formulae?
1887Will the Spider be able to know the one that belongs to her?
1887Will the Spider dare?
1887Will they be accepted, if supplied by my stratagems?
1887Will this vigilance frighten off the Ichneumon and other lovers of omelettes?
1887Would it not be simpler to restore the old web, which might serve many times yet, if a few rents were just repaired?
1887Would we make her acquaintance?
1887Would we see this might triumphant in all its beauty?
1887Would you care to bring her to the light of day from the depths of her well?
1887Would you care to see the trap at work?
1887{ 24} Does the mother, feeling the brood quicken inside the satin wrapper, herself break open the vessel at the opportune moment?
42414And the true horse, where did he arise? 42414 Another sort of barnacle,"you say you have found?
42414Gluttonis rather an odd name for this creature, is n''t it?
42414Is it any wonder, then, that decent men came to rebel against this savage slaughter? 42414 So having traveled over America, Europe, and Asia, was my quest ended?
42414Then these little beetles are very mischievous?
42414Was n''t it clever of them? 42414 Where have they all come from?
42414Ah!--did you notice how that minnow turned and fairly flew as he felt a touch of one of those waving petals?
42414And will not the deer hear the sound and take the alarm?
42414And would you like to know why it is that the spider does not stick to the web as the flies do?
42414Are n''t the canary- like form and black wings familiar?
42414BARNACLES You would hardly think that barnacles were crustaceans, would you?
42414But crabs and lobsters grow?
42414But do you know how it swims?
42414But do you see between those green fronds that roundish yellow object about as big as a filbert?
42414But how do they manage to remain out of the water for so long?
42414But how is it that all those tufts of seaweed are growing on the upper part of the shell?
42414But the female narwhals require food just as much as the males do; how is it that they are not provided with tusks also?
42414But what embroidered on the glistening snow- sheet this lovely chain that extends wavily from this tree to that stone wall?
42414But what is the curious little creature clinging flat upon this rock among the weeds?
42414But what is the difference between crocodiles and alligators?
42414But, you say, you have heard of"hard- shell"and"soft- shell"crabs, and want to know the difference?
42414CHAPTER II BABOONS How can we tell a baboon from an ape?
42414Can you tell when and where they lay their eggs?
42414Did you ever see a more beautiful creature?
42414Did you know this was one of the distinctive marks of a butterfly?
42414Did you see tiny jets of water squirt out of two little nozzles on its surface?
42414Do n''t you know what happens if you lay a heavy weight, such as a big paving- stone, on the ground?
42414Do n''t you think it would be interesting and delightful to study these exquisite creatures?
42414Do you hear that continual popping under your feet?
42414Do you know them?
42414Do you know what causes them?
42414Do you not know them?
42414Do you not see that large brown tuft, quivering and moving like a chrysanthemum each petal of which was alive?
42414Do you notice the delicious beeswax- like odor in the air?
42414Do you remember how the diana monkey holds its beard with one hand while drinking, so as to keep it from touching the water?
42414Do you see ahead of us those little jets of water come spouting up into the air as if squirted out of tiny syringes?
42414Do you see how long his great claws are, and how his back is covered all over with tiny hooked spines?
42414Do you see that bunch of long, twisted tubes, which seem to be fastened to one of those big stones?
42414Do you see that double row of holes punched in the snow?
42414Do you see that each one is closed, just a little way below the entrance, by a kind of scarlet stopper?
42414Do you see that he holds it stretched out behind him, and keeps on turning it slightly first to one side and then to the other?
42414Do you see that it is covered all over with little pimples?
42414Do you see that scratch in the mud?
42414Do you see that small olive- green bird sitting very erect on that fence- post?
42414Do you see that there is a little hole in the top of the shell, which is made of several pieces?
42414Do you see those twisted little coils of muddy sand scattered about on the mud?
42414Do you see those two little round objects on short stems sticking half an inch out of the sand by that old winkle- shell?
42414Do you see what great teeth it has?
42414Do you see?
42414Do you see?
42414Do you think it is dull and dingy now?
42414FRIEND OR FOE?
42414HOW THEY ARE KEPT WARM But if the seal is a hot- blooded animal, how can it remain in the sea for days together without being chilled?
42414Have n''t you noticed how often the leaves of rose- bushes are chipped round the edges, quite large pieces being frequently cut away?
42414Have n''t you noticed how silent a cat''s tread is?
42414Have n''t you noticed when a cat has licked your hand how very dry and rough her tongue feels?
42414Have you ever noticed how wonderfully it is suited for a life which is almost entirely spent under the ground?
42414Have you ever wondered why we so seldom find a dead mouse or a dead bird, although these creatures must die in thousands every day?
42414Have you noticed among the May flowers how many are yellow?
42414He does n''t look very blue, nor very appetizing, does he?
42414How about the moles and the skunks?
42414How do the insects make their noise-- for one can hardly call it singing?
42414How do these creatures hop?
42414How do you think it got out of the egg when the time came for it to be hatched?
42414How does it find the worms and grubs?
42414How is it that all the trees, bushes, and plants are covered with threads of spider''s silk, which often annoys us by getting on our hands or faces?
42414How is this?
42414How is this?
42414How many eggs do you think an oil- beetle will lay?
42414Is he not quite sure to brush up against a branch as he does so, causing the leaves to rustle?
42414Is it a manly or an admirable thing?
42414Is it not pleasanter to think of watching such innocent creatures, looking out for their own safety, than to think of hunting and killing them?
42414Is n''t that a remarkable way of curing indigestion?
42414Is n''t that exactly like monkeys?
42414It does not look much like purple dye, does it?
42414It is an egg, but you never would have suspected it, would you?
42414It looks as if it were growing out of the rock, does n''t it?
42414It looks like some sort of pill- bug half an inch long, does n''t it?
42414It seems impossible, does n''t it?
42414It would seem strange to earn one''s living just by picking up money on the sea- shore, would n''t it?
42414Now what is the use of this singular weapon?
42414Only three squirrels were found in this burrow; so that they were in no danger of starving during the winter, were they?
42414That is an odd way of feeding, is n''t it?
42414That is rather a big meal to take, is n''t it?
42414That seems impossible, does n''t it?
42414That seems impossible, does n''t it?
42414That sounds rather strange, does n''t it?
42414The air is filled with the droning and humming of other insects; how are these sounds produced?
42414The bit of timber is certainly ruined-- but what has happened to it?
42414Then what do you think the stranger does?
42414They must be very stupid creatures, must n''t they?
42414What are scallops?
42414What do they find to eat?
42414What do you think it feeds upon?
42414What has become of the birds?
42414What have you found now?
42414What is it like?
42414What is that greenish- gray object covered all over with spikes?
42414What is that red squirrel doing under the chestnut- tree by the side of the lane?
42414What possible justification in art or common sense is there in setting a dead animal on a hat?
42414What will it do when it comes to a stone?
42414What will it do when it comes to rock?
42414Where is he aiming?
42414Where shall we look for the= first= ancestors of these wild and graceful animals?
42414Why does n''t the mud close in behind the animal?
42414Why has so much of the bark fallen away from the wood?
42414Why is it called the"diana"monkey?
42414Why should they applaud useless slaughter, dictated by vanity and blood- lust, in the men over whom they have influence?
42414Would you like to know why it is that flies stick to the web as soon as they touch it?
42414Would you like to know why?
42414Would you like to see a little of this dye?
42414Yes?
42414You have found"something pretty,"you say?
42414You know what a millepede or thousand- legs looks like when it rolls itself up, do n''t you?
42414You would say they were goldfinches if they were more yellow, would n''t you?
42414You would think that a herd of elephants would be very conspicuous even in the thick forest, would n''t you?
42414You would think that an animal, colored like the zebra would be very easily seen, even by night, would n''t you?
42414You would think that as they are so constantly in use, these teeth would quickly be worn down to the gums, would n''t you?
42414You would think that giraffes would be very easily seen, even in the forest, would n''t you?
42414You would think that it would get badly stung by the bees, would n''t you, when it tore their nests open and robbed them of their sweet stores?
42414You would think that the dogs would be very jealous of them, would n''t you, and that they would be very much afraid of the dogs?
42414_ Why is it_ that American men and boys kill them so eagerly?...
42414did you notice that it moved one of its rays?
42414did you see the swoop of that gray shadow from the bulrushes?
42414do you hear that sharp tapping?
42414do you see how its arms at once come closing in?
42414do you see?
42414is it alive?
42414some sort of crab, buried in the sand?
42414you ca n''t, eh?
42871''No possum''? 42871 Am I going to have an invite, Uncle Jeth?"
42871Calamity? 42871 Did you say you would n''t put any price on Calamity, Uncle Jethro?"
42871Do n''t you sniff the''simmons, Uncle Jeth?
42871Do you want to know how to shoot a skunk on your kitchen steps and never know it twenty- four hours after?
42871Going to roast this possum, are n''t you?
42871Is it Br''er Possum or Br''er Coon, Uncle Jethro?
42871W''at dat owl say?
42871W''at dat yo''mumblin'', boy? 42871 W''at yo''''xplodin''my cogitations lak dat fo''?
42871What are you doing that for, Uncle Jeth?
42871What fo''? 42871 What is it that makes the_ dreadful_ noise?"
42871Where did Bobolink disport himself before there were meadows in the North and rice- fields in the South? 42871 Yhear dat?
42871''no possum''?
42871''no possum''?
42871A BUZZARDS''BANQUET Is there anything ugly out of doors?
42871A hammock for a winter bed?
42871Ai n''t I done tol''yo''dat dog gwine talk possum by- um- bit?
42871And if he hates, what need has he of words-- with such a countenance?
42871And this fearless unconcern?
42871And what could wake him?
42871And what one of the birds will not?
42871And what softest foot can fall without waking the woods?
42871And what tender emotion has a buzzard too subtle for expression by a croak or hiss?
42871And whence came their parents, and whither went they?
42871And who can say he does not prosper-- that he does not roll in fat?
42871As far as my observation goes, the supreme question with him is, Can this thing be swallowed?
42871But does she always couple beauty with her utility?
42871But need one''s love for things English include this pestiferous sparrow?
42871But no deeper mystery, for--"dead,"did I call these stumps?
42871But was n''t it beautifully done?
42871But what about them during the dark?
42871But what is a wood- pussy?
42871But what was she calling us for?
42871Can the ardent, sympathetic lover of nature ever find her unlovely?
42871Dare he return to us in spring?
42871Did they detect an odor miles away and follow the scent hither?
42871Did you ever try to follow this path to its beginning or end, wondering who traveled it?
42871Dispute the authority of a skunk?
42871Do we more than barely endure them?
42871Do we not take the deepest impressions when the plates of these sharpened senses are exposed in the dark?
42871Do we shiver at them?
42871Do you think they''ll walk up and toe that mark, while you knock''em over with a stick?"
42871Does any one believe that exhibition to be an explosion of pure song-- the exaltation of unmixed joy?
42871Does this winter- long sleep seem to him only as a nap overnight?
42871For did not their motive justify the deed?
42871Gwine ax yo''self a''invite?
42871Had I gone daft so suddenly?
42871Has anybody observed the feat?
42871He rolls in fat; and how long has obesity been the peculiar accompaniment of nervousness?
42871How could our imaginations, with a bent for superstition, fail to work upon a creature so often heard, so rarely seen, of habits so dark and uncanny?
42871How did the bird from that altitude discover so tiny a thing?
42871How did they find their way to this wet spot over the hills and across the acres of this wide pasture?
42871How does it taste?
42871How long before Columbus, and Leif, son of Eric?
42871How we gwine yhear w''at dat dog say?"
42871How would the casuist decide for so sweet, so big, so heroic a deception-- or the attempt?
42871How, again, shall I explain this bit of observation?
42871If it tried, say, the tanager''s, would we believe and accept it?
42871If these were the fragments only, what would be a conservative estimate of the night''s entire catch?
42871Is he listening to the chorus of the crickets, to the whippoorwills, or is it for supper he is planning?
42871Is it astonishing that, when finished, they looked like a growth of the limb, like part and parcel of the very tree?
42871Is it curiosity to see what goes on?
42871Is it mere stupidity?
42871Is there anything on record in the way of audacity better than that?
42871Is there anything snug and warm about a hammock?
42871Is there some safety here from enemies worse than boys and cats and dogs?
42871Is this an epileptic, an unstrung, flighty creature?
42871Is this nervousness?
42871Long before the sun- baked mud began to crack these young ones had gone-- where?
42871Meantime where and how do they live?
42871Most things are curious, ai n''t they?"
42871Or is it now instinctive?
42871Or is it that these birds take this chance for human fellowship?
42871Or who can keep his flesh from creeping when an owl bobs over him in the silence against a full moon?
42871Possum, boy?
42871Possum?
42871Sell C''lamity?
42871Shall the crows and cherry- birds be exterminated?
42871Shall we measure all the out- of- doors by the linnet''s song, the cardinal- flower''s flame, and the hay- field''s odor?
42871Still, why not raise skunks?
42871Such thoughts as, What is it?
42871Suppose they hunted only two evening hours a day?
42871The cars drive High- hole away?
42871The chickadees were never friendlier; and when, since last autumn, have so many flocks of goldfinches glittered along our paths?
42871The lark that broke from the snow at my feet as I crossed the pasture this afternoon-- What comes o''thee?
42871The possum was one of the first to find us, and when did he land, I wonder?
42871They are more easily kept than pigs or pigeons; they multiply rapidly; their pelts make good(?)
42871They go somewhere from the dew and cold; but where?
42871W''at I done tol''yo''''bout dis?
42871W''at I know''bout any possum?
42871W''at dat ol''fool dog tree a long- legged possum fo'', nohow?
42871W''at dat yo''sayin''''g''in''C''lamity?
42871W''at dem''flections''g''in''ol''Miss Owl?
42871W''at yo''''sociatin''wid a low- down possum as takes t''mus''rats''holes?
42871W''at yo''mean?"
42871Was he the same lithe, merry- hearted beau then as now?"
42871Was it a summons from--?
42871Was it an ancient tortoise in the garden?
42871Waves of herring, did I say?
42871We see them sprinkled over the snow everywhere; but when have we seen the feet that left them?
42871Whar wilt thou cow''r thy chittering wing, An''close thy e''e?
42871What I take yo''possumin''des dozen winters fo'', en yo''dunno how to sight a gun in de moon yit?
42871What about the snakes and frogs?
42871What did it signify-- these squawking, scolding, garrulous birds suddenly gone silent and trustful?
42871What does he think about?
42871What four boys in the same time could clear the meadows of half that number?
42871What other bird can take his place and fill his mission in the heavy, hopeful days of March?
42871What other bird lines his nest with snake- skins?
42871What then?
42871What would the coons, the turkey- buzzards, and the owls do without them?
42871What, indeed, looks less lovely, less nimble and buoyant, more chained to the earth, than a toad?
42871What, then, is it-- stupidity or insolence?
42871When on wing, where else, between the point of a beak and the tips of a tail, are there so many marvelous curves, such beautiful balance of parts?
42871When will they return?
42871When, in the highest noon, did every leaf, every breeze, seem so much a self, so full of ready life?
42871Where are any to match them for curious, crazy coloring?
42871Where did they all come from?
42871Where do the birds sleep such nights as this?
42871Where do they pass the long winter nights?
42871Where do they spend their night?
42871Where in this bitter cold, this darkness and storm, will they make their beds?
42871Who can get used to the bats flitting and squeaking about him in the dusk?
42871Who ever had a good look at a muskrat in the glare of day?
42871Who has ever heard any noise from untamed animals at play?
42871Who knows?
42871Why do the wood- birds so persistently build their nests along the paths and roads?
42871Why give the wide sea surface to the petrels, and screw the sea- urchins into the rocks on Grand Manan?
42871Why leave an entire forest of green, live pines for a lonesome crow hermitage, and convert the rottenest old stump into a submerged- tenth tenement?
42871Why should she be so lavish of interstellar space, and crowd a drop of stagnant water so?
42871Why, did n''t you tell her to go home?"
42871Will it digest?
42871Will some one please explain?
42871Will they get out?
42871Yes; here I sit,--a man on a fence across the field,--and the lark turns toward me and calls out:"Did you see me?"
42871You can take no vacation in the mountains?
42871[ Illustration] Has anything been written about our swift showing as faithful and sympathetic observation as that?
42871a brood of birds in the chimney?
42871and can he ever sing again?
42871or hangs such gruesome things out for latch- strings?
42871spring!_ Has he not as much claim upon our faith as a bird that drops down from no one knows where, with the same message?
42871the owls and hawks put behind bars?
42871the sheep upon the downs?
42871the sparrows transported?
42871this new and absorbing interest in grubs?
23434''Good ev''n t''ye, Mistress Ant,''said he;''How''s a''at home?
23434*****"_ Happy insect, what can be In happiness compared to thee?
23434After they have disappeared, what is left in the jar?
23434Are any of the windfalls in the orchard wormy and if so what proportion?
23434Are its wing covers hard like other beetles?
23434Are the eyes large?
23434Are the feelers used while in the jar, and if so for what purpose?
23434Are the segments from which the light comes the same color as the other segments of the body?
23434Are the trees sprayed just after the blossoms fall to control the pest?
23434Are the two pairs of wings alike?
23434Are there any old stagnant ponds or swamps near your home?
23434Are these transparent?
23434Are they on the top or under side of the leaf?
23434CHAPTER II COLLECTING INSECTS"_ Does he who searches Nature''s secrets scruple To stick a pin into an insect?_"--A. G. OEHLENSCHLAEGER.
23434CHAPTER XIII THE DRAGON- FLY What child is there that is not familiar with the insect commonly known as the dragon- fly, snake doctor or snake feeder?
23434Can it crawl fast?
23434Can they chew leaves?
23434Can they drag away a caterpillar as large as themselves?
23434Can they fly?
23434Can they smell?
23434Can you count their legs?
23434Can you detect guards which move about at the entrance of the hive?
23434Can you find a pair of small feelers?
23434Can you find any plant which they will not eat?
23434Can you find eyes?
23434Can you find the queen?
23434Can you find where the secretion that causes the odor is produced?
23434Can you see it thrust its tongue into the flower?
23434Can you see small balls of yellow pollen on the hind legs of the bee?
23434Can you see the slender beak which incloses the mouth parts?
23434Can you see the two short tubes on the back of the louse?
23434Can you see the wings forming on the backs of the older nymphs?
23434Can you see their eyes and feelers?
23434Can you see them catch other insects?
23434Can you tell the males from the females?
23434Can you wash it off?
23434Do all such apples contain worms?
23434Do any of the lice develop wings?
23434Do any of the wormy apples show rot?
23434Do birds catch them and eat them?
23434Do chickens eat them?
23434Do the workers fight to protect the nest?
23434Do they all appear at once or only a few at first?
23434Do they bite?
23434Do they eat holes through the leaf, or do they eat away the entire leaf?
23434Do they eat the entire leaf?
23434Do they eat the foliage rapidly?
23434Do they eat the lice?
23434Do they ever make music?
23434Do they fly fast?
23434Do they fly high in the air as well as near the water or surface of the earth?
23434Do they injure the lice?
23434Do they light in trees?
23434Do they move about as if they were in a hurry?
23434Do they simply suck out the blood, or is the louse completely devoured?
23434Do they spin silk?
23434Do they stop to eat before going down into the nest?
23434Do they travel fast?
23434Do they use their wings at all while in the jar?
23434Do those returning fly as fast as those which leave?
23434Do those which leave fly direct from the hive or circle about first?
23434Do you find any green lice near them?
23434Do you find any of the rounded pupae in the barrel?
23434Do you find any small soft grubs and oval cocoons?
23434Do you find feelers and if so where?
23434Do you find it about the barn?
23434Do you find it feeding on filth and if so, on what?
23434Do you find spines or hair on their bodies?
23434Do you find the malarial fever mosquito in your region?
23434Do you find them eating the leaves?
23434Does it hide in the grass when you try to catch it?
23434Does it spin silk?
23434Does it visit red clover?
23434Does she visit flowers?
23434Does the bee move slowly from flower to flower?
23434Examine the large eyes; where are they found?
23434From their point of view what difference does it make if they tear off most of the legs and break the wings?
23434Have they wings?
23434Have you ever seen a dull colored fly, which inhabits dry paths and which flies with a humming sound like a bee, feeding on grasshoppers?
23434Have you ever seen chickens scratching in manure and feeding on the fly maggots?
23434How are they attached to the leaf?
23434How are they folded?
23434How broad are the wings as compared with the body?
23434How can the fly carry filth to food materials?
23434How can they crawl along in the bottle with their backs toward the floor?
23434How can they get them out when they want to fly?
23434How can they use so many legs while crawling?
23434How deep may they go to get it?
23434How do the legs join the body?
23434How do they go about devouring a louse?
23434How do they move about in the jar?
23434How do they move about?
23434How does a turkey catch them?
23434How does it do it?
23434How does it get away?
23434How does it go about it?
23434How does it move about when not scared?
23434How does the caterpillar feed?
23434How does the feeding of the worms injure the fruit?
23434How does the work of the young worms differ from that of the larger ones?
23434How fast do they grow?
23434How large are the grubs when they hatch from the egg?
23434How large is it?
23434How long are the feelers as compared with the body?
23434How long does it last?
23434How long does it stay on one blossom?
23434How long will the odor stay on your hands?
23434How many eggs in most packets?
23434How many have they?
23434How many joints are there to the antennae?
23434How many joints are there to the body?
23434How many joints in the legs?
23434How many legs do they have?
23434How many legs has it?
23434How many legs have they?
23434How many legs have they?
23434How many legs?
23434How many lice can one eat in a day?
23434How many of the segments have small black spots on either side?
23434How many segments are there to the abdomen?
23434How many segments are there to the body?
23434How many small wing pads are there?
23434How many stripes have they?
23434How many wings?
23434How often is the light produced?
23434How swiftly can they fly?
23434If so, how many?
23434If so, what flowers?
23434Is it bright?
23434Is it dropped as soon as the ant comes out of the hole or is it carried some distance?
23434Is malarial fever common during the summer and fall?
23434Is she larger than the workers?
23434Is the earth they bring out the same color as the surface soil?
23434Is the head firmly attached to the body?
23434Is the horn at the end of the body stiff enough to stick into your hand?
23434Is their eye sight good?
23434Upon a flower he stapt his flight, And thinking on his former slight, Thus to the Ant himself addrest:''Pray, Madam, will ye please to rest?
23434What are the fly''s worst enemies?
23434What are the sharp spines on the side of the hind- legs for?
23434What are these objects?
23434What are these used for?
23434What are these used for?
23434What are they used for?
23434What color are they?
23434What color is it and does it have hair upon its body?
23434What color is it?
23434What color is the head?
23434What color is the light?
23434What do they do when you jar the barrel?
23434What do they do when you touch them?
23434What do they do with the jumping legs while walking?
23434What do they live on in the rain barrel?
23434What do you find feeding on grasshoppers?
23434What does the hard backed beetle do when it is touched?
23434What does the miller feed on?
23434What foods in the home is it most fond of?
23434What gives the color to the wings?
23434What happens when a fly or other insect alights near the opening?
23434What is the brown juice which escapes from the mouth when disturbed?
23434What is the distinction?
23434What is the nature of their work on the leaf?
23434What is the peculiar structure on the under side of the body?
23434What makes the sting of the bee poisonous?
23434What proportion of apples in your region are wormy?
23434What time in the spring do the caterpillars change to the pupa and when do the moths emerge?
23434What use would they have for eyes while in the ground?
23434When disturbed, how far does it go?
23434When it stings does it always lose its sting?
23434When the bee is disturbed in the field does it fly away or will it sting?
23434When they fly do they stay near the ground or high in the air?
23434When they return do they come direct to the mouth of the hive?
23434Where and on what is it found feeding out doors?
23434Where are the wings attached?
23434Where are their eyes?
23434Where are their wings?
23434Where are they placed on the body?
23434Where do they feed most, on the outer or inner leaves?
23434Where do you find it; on the ground or on plants?
23434Where do you find the worm?
23434Where does its skin first crack?
23434Where have they gone?
23434Where is it usually found in the barn?
23434Where is the honey carried and how is it placed in the honey cells in the hive?
23434Where is the light produced?
23434Where spraying is carefully done, are there as many wormy apples?
23434Which is used most in flying?
23434Which legs are used in walking?
23434Who has not seen flies feeding on running sores on animals, or on"spit"on sidewalks?
23434Who sends them out with the earth?
23434Why are they always most abundant on a kitchen screen door?
23434Why can you not pick up a fly like you would a grasshopper?
23434Why do they bring it out?
23434Why not spray all the orchards properly and have no worms?
23434Why not?
23434Will grasshoppers bite you while handling them?
23434Will it continue to flash while you hold it?
23434Will the bees sting when you disturb them about the hive?
23434Will the toad eat them?
23434Will they produce the light while on the ground?
55097''Cello?
55097And have I your permission, Shrew- mouse?
55097And where do_ you_ come in?
55097Are you all ready?
55097Are you quite sure?
55097Artists in what?
55097Ca n''t?
55097Could not sing for days?
55097Could not sing for days?
55097D''you_ see_ it?
55097Do n''t what?
55097Do you know where you are?
55097Down where?
55097Drums?
55097First violin?
55097Flutes?
55097France?
55097Frightened?
55097Grass- blade?
55097Have you heard him?
55097Have you seen this trick before?
55097Have-- you-- seen-- the-- French-- Frog?
55097Have-- you-- seen-- the-- French-- Frog?
55097Heard what?
55097How can we wake him?
55097How did you know that?
55097I see it, but what of it?
55097Is that song French?
55097It''s beautiful,said Winnie;"but where are you going?"
55097More food, Bunny?
55097My_ centre_ gallery? 55097 My_ centre_ gallery?"
55097One bite-- a snap behind-- and then where are you?
55097Prudent?
55097Run?
55097Second violin?
55097Shall_ I_ come too?
55097Should one run?
55097Squirrel is living up to us? 55097 THAT?"
55097THAT?
55097The French Frog?
55097The Rat?
55097Under the furze- bush?
55097Viola?
55097Was that eleven?
55097Well?
55097What are her nurseries to me? 55097 What did I tell you?"
55097What do I look like?
55097What do you think of that?
55097What have I done?
55097What is it now?
55097What_ will_ become of us?
55097Where am I going?
55097Where are his eyes?
55097Where are you going?
55097Where did you see him last?
55097Where''s that?
55097Who are you?
55097Who are_ We_?
55097Whoever ran from Badger but a rabbit? 55097 Why does it come in this get- up?
55097Why is he called Admiral?
55097Why lying in the open?
55097Why not?
55097Why should a toad fear me? 55097 Why, how is that?"
55097Will this do?
55097Would you mind asking him to come up?
55097You can smell them if you go slow enough,said the Harvest Mouse,"but when do_ you_ go slow?
55097You can smell them, ca n''t you?
55097_ That?_said he,"that''s not French."
55097_ We?_said the Stoat.
55097_ You?_sneered the Fox Cub.
55097''Why, Sir, d''ye think I''ve lost my eyes?''
55097*****"Slept well, Bunny?"
55097An æon hence-- who knows?
55097And how many of you can tell me the number of different kinds of tadpoles which one can find in England in the springtime?
55097And how would we act if our lives depended on not being caught?
55097At length the Natterjack found words:"Can you tell me,"he said, politely,"where the French Frog has got to?"
55097But how to get there?
55097But if he crept along close to the water?
55097But there is always a something, is n''t there?
55097But where are you going?"
55097Ca n''t you play more softly?"
55097Could the expectant ring of mice be deaf?
55097Do n''t you agree with me?"
55097Do you really mean to tell me that you have never met any of them?
55097Had he been bitten?
55097Had he not sung against the wood- pecker, yaffle for yaffle, note for note?
55097Had his eye seen?
55097Had his nose smelt?
55097Have you ever fancied a butterfly paint- box?
55097Hungry, Bunny?
55097I hear you ask at once,"What animal was it?"
55097I wonder how many of you know these lines?
55097I wonder how many of you know which is the_ largest_ of our British animals?
55097Is there no one else who can drum?"
55097It is not a pretty beginning, is it?
55097It sounds rather horrible, does n''t it?
55097Now how would we ourselves act, if our lives depended on catching things?
55097Now what is the chief enemy of a fly?
55097Should she be silenced?
55097So for a mad five minutes; at last he got his answer, suave tones across the intervening grass:"Have I seen what?"
55097Suppose we wanted a blue?
55097That is a dreadful name, is n''t it?
55097The grubs might be replaced in time-- what of her precious egg?
55097The last sounds the nicest, does n''t it?
55097Then why so frightened?"
55097Think you can scratch him out?"
55097This sounds queer, does n''t it?
55097What do you play?"
55097What do you think that is?
55097What is the meaning of it?"
55097What of the eggs?
55097What''s to be done with you?
55097Where has it left its furs?"
55097Where was his tail?
55097Why should he stand on ceremony with four fat, squirmy, wrinkled, hairless infants?
55097Why should n''t he?
55097You ask and ask with reason: How came two fire- toads in an English garden?
55097You remember the eyes as big as tea- cups in"The Little Tin Soldier"?
55097[ Illustration: AND IN DUE COURSE OF TIME, HIS WIFE] What happened next?
55097[ Illustration: HIS LITTLE EYES WERE STARTING FROM THEIR SOCKETS AS HE SAT UP ENTRANCED]"Are you quite prudent?"
55097[ Illustration: THE CRICKET WAS SITTING ON THE HEARTHSTONE WATCHING THE PEOPLE IN THE FIRE GOING TO CHURCH]"Forget who?"
55097[ Illustration: THE HARVEST MOUSE DREW HERSELF UP INDIGNANT]"Did you find it?"
55097[ Illustration: THE NATTERJACK SLOUCHED LOW INTO THE PRESENCE]"Of me?"
55097[ Illustration: THE WATER SHREWMOUSE, WHO IS NEARLY HALF AS BIG AGAIN AS THE COMMON SHREWMOUSE] What does the great Blue Whale eat, you ask?
55097[ Illustration:"AND PERHAPS YOU WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH TO GET HIGHER UP THE TREE, WHILE I COME UNDERNEATH"]"Polecats?"
55097[ Illustration:"HAVE YOU SEEN THIS TRICK BEFORE?"
55097[ Illustration]"How''s that?"
55097[ Illustration]"_ Squirrel is living up to us?_"It was a cough and splutter from above and Stoat and Cub peered upwards.
55097_ Wo n''t_ you now?"
55097and what nice- minded English frog would listen to_ your_ love- song?"
55097said the King Toad;"frightened of what?"
55097she said;"the French Frog?
55097what''s that?"
2884''And do you know the road they took?''
2884''And me?''
2884''And the Egyptians?''
2884''Is it dead?
2884''That''s the Red Sea, right enough; but where are the Israelites?''
2884''Then mimesis...?''
2884A smell?
2884Above all, does it already contain an egg?
2884Ah, fond illusions, what has come of you?
2884All things considered, is ignoble the right epithet to apply to parasitism?
2884And now a momentous question arises: is the egg really laid each time that the probe enters a cell?
2884And, even if it does resist, will not the grubs, sheltered by too thin a wall, have to suffer from excess of heat in summer and of cold in winter?
2884Are the line followed and the places visited engraved on her memory from the first?
2884Are they able to change their line of conduct when faced with an emergency?
2884Are they able to connect a''because''with a''why''and afterwards to regulate their behaviour accordingly?
2884Are they thrown out of their latitude by this stratagem, are or they not?
2884Are we so very sure that parasitic habits come from a love of inaction?
2884Before calling upon it to speak, why should I not say what I have on my mind?
2884Besides, while the cup was still empty, did she not instantly close the hole which I had made?
2884But am I convinced?
2884But does this concatenation of ideas, rudimentary though it be, really take place within the insect''s brain?
2884But in what, if you please, does Parnopes carnea resemble the Bembex into whose home she penetrates in her presence?
2884But then is it not a task of the utmost difficulty to introduce a hair into the thickness of a stone?
2884But what insect was it that Erasmus Darwin saw?
2884But why do first one out of two and then two out of five fail to join their fellows?
2884Can it be that the lofty position of the edifice and the shaky support of the twig arouse distrust in the Dioxys and other malefactors?
2884Can my appliance have thwarted the guiding influence of the terrestrial currents on her nervous system?
2884Can one believe that odoriferous emanations diffused along the route are going to last for several days?
2884Can the Mason- bees have lost their way in the maze of the forest?
2884Can the bird, wonderful architect that it is, compare its work with that masterpiece of higher geometry, the edifice of the Bee?
2884Can there be ill- conditioned characters among her, characters that delight in a neighbour''s ruin?
2884Can they overcome this opposing current and cleave the aerial torrent with their wings?
2884Can we say as much of the Chrysis or the Mutilla?
2884Could not those inquisitive filaments, which seem to guide the insect when hunting, also guide it when travelling?
2884Could our own memory always vie with hers?
2884Did he have a bad time on the journey?
2884Did memory, the memory of the stomach that once digested them?
2884Did the parasite become what he is because he found it excellent to do nothing?
2884Disappeared how?
2884Do some eight grubs represent the Bee''s whole family?
2884Do they perceive a sound?
2884Do we possess a similar faculty?
2884Does not the fact that this sense has not been handed down to us point to a flaw in the pedigree?
2884Does that end the list?
2884Does the Amazon require repeated journeys in order to learn her geography, or is a single expedition enough for her?
2884Does the actual insect remember that childhood''s meal?
2884For mercy''s sake, can not they show us transformations in the act?
2884Had I not dug up a dead body, only a few days before?
2884Had the Bee the least glimmer of reason would she lay her egg on the third, on the tenth part of the necessary provender?
2884Had there been trouble with the carrier when he was caught?
2884Has it faculties akin to ours, has it the power of thought?
2884Has it no enemies?
2884Have they succeeded?
2884How could I do otherwise, not having the original text in front of me?
2884How could I suspect that an entomologist of Lacordaire''s standing should be capable of such a blunder as to substitute a Sphex for a Common Wasp?
2884How does the Bee know when the proper quantity is reached?
2884How is it apprised whether the part below is empty or full?
2884How will the Amazon behave when the locality is unknown to her?
2884How will they escape from that labyrinth, where, in the early days, I needed a compass to find my way?
2884How?''
2884However hard the cement may be, can it possibly resist all these agents of destruction?
2884I was going in, was n''t I, with a splitting headache?
2884If the former returns after being whirled, why should not the latter?
2884If this swinging- process fails entirely when its object is to make the insect lose its bearings, what influence can it have upon the Cat?
2884In what does it resemble ours?
2884In what does the Melecta resemble the Anthophora, who stands aside on her threshold to let her pass?
2884In what respect do the Mutilla, the Chrysis, the Leucopsis, the Anthrax and so many others differ, in their way of living, from the Scolia?
2884In which is the heap of paste on which she had begun?
2884Indifferent to mimicry, is he the less skilful Beetle- hunter on that account, is his race degenerating?
2884Is it a tithe for her personal maintenance, or a sample tested for the benefit of her coming grub?
2884Is it exercised by means of a special organ?
2884Is it from weariness, from a distaste for work after a period of fierce activity?
2884Is it here or somewhere else that the coveted larva lies?
2884Is it really my Spider?
2884Is it sight?
2884Is it the vice of indolence?
2884Is it through lack of intelligence that the Bee allows her honey to go to waste?
2884Is repose so great an advantage to him that he abjured his ancient customs in order to obtain it?
2884Is that all?
2884Is that rapid glance enough to provide an exact recollection?
2884Is the Osmia discreet enough not to put upon the good- natured Mason and to utilize only abandoned passages and waste cells?
2884Is the insect capable of this?
2884Is the method of whirling the animal round in a bag, to prevent its return, worthy of confidence?
2884Is there a difference in the faculty that guides them over unknown ground?
2884Is this unknown sense localized in a particular part of the Wasp and the Bee?
2884Marked it?
2884May it not rather be through helplessness?
2884Mildewed honey, dust and rubbish, a shrivelled larva, or a larva in good condition?
2884Must the facts of the past and the facts of the future necessarily exclude the facts of the present?
2884Must we attribute this result to the difficulties to be overcome?
2884Never have my eyes beheld the like; and then is it really the egg of the Leucopsis?
2884No matter: was not my splendid income supposed to cover everything, food for the mind as well as food for the body?
2884Novices, did I say?
2884Now that the thread has reached its goal, what does the cell contain?
2884Now what did she do before she took to parasitism?
2884Of course it has: which of us, animals and men, has not?
2884Of what prowess must not the mother be capable to determine the exact spot at which it lies and to lay her egg on its side or at least close by?
2884Or does she afterwards go and establish a more numerous progeny on other boulders?
2884Or does she take possession of the home of which the real owners could themselves have made use?
2884Or is it not rather a difference in flying- power?
2884Or was her distress merely the result of an unwonted harness?
2884Shall we say then that reason directs it?
2884She finds the stranger in the nest:''What''s this?
2884Surprise on the part of the Pompilus, who goes forward and then suddenly steps back with a start:''Is it alive?''
2884Surprised at the statement, I interposed:''By what signs do you know her?''
2884The Stelis does something of the kind; but who would think of proclaiming a relationship between the Chalicodoma and her?
2884The mandibles are pickaxes suitable for breaking through hard mortar: are they also scissors capable of cutting a thin membrane?
2884Then how did my exiles return?
2884Then how many ages does it take to form a parasite?
2884Then what do those puzzling organs perceive?
2884Then what guides her when she makes her estimate with such precision?
2884Then what is the purpose of the Leucopsis''invisible implements?
2884Then what value has this dissection as an argument in favour of the insect''s reasoning- powers when the wind blows?
2884Then where is its seat?
2884Then where is she?
2884Then why does she not place the pellet on the rim of the cell?
2884Thus endowed, will she be capable of meting out the future''s larva''s portion?
2884To return to this memory for places whose tenacity and fidelity I have just recognized: to what degree does it consent to retain impressions?
2884To which evidence shall we lend an ear?
2884To which of them will the inheritance of the old nest revert?
2884To which will the Pompilus go?
2884Was it really necessary in the Dioxys''interest?
2884Was it really the magnetic influence that disturbed my Bee so strangely?
2884We are incapable of knowing ourselves; what will it be if we try to fathom the intellect of others?
2884Well, does this superior, this privileged being reason?
2884What about a dissolving fluid which would soften the mortar under the point of the ovipositor?
2884What became of them?
2884What becomes of the Mason''s egg confined in the same cell with the egg of the Dioxys?
2884What better proof could be wished of the irresistible propensity which the insect obeys?
2884What can be the function of those organs?
2884What can that be?
2884What cares she that the home is not deserted?
2884What could the mystery be?
2884What did they do with their spoil?
2884What does it all mean?
2884What does she covet for her offspring: the honey- cupboard, the stores of game, the larvae in their transformation- sleep?
2884What guided them?
2884What guides them on these long journeys?
2884What have we done, we and the insects, to be ground with sovran indifference under the mill- stone of such wretchedness?
2884What interest can anything have for us that does not fill our stomachs?
2884What is reason?
2884What is the use of learning?
2884What is the use of truth, when profit is all that matters?
2884What manner of law is this which has at least ninety- nine exceptions in a hundred cases?
2884What need have they of topography?
2884What need would the mariner have of a compass, were he himself a compass?
2884What one can do can not another do?
2884What sense guides them?
2884What should we say to the Wolf giving up mutton and browsing on grass, in obedience to the dictates of idleness?
2884What sort of compass do they employ on their return journeys?
2884What then is parasitism, if one must look for it among animals of different races?
2884What time- limit shall I allow for this census of the Bees that return to the nest?
2884What will the Bee do?
2884What will the Mason do in the presence of this munificent gift, which saves her the trouble of building and harvesting?
2884What would happen if, after laying her egg, she left the house open and went to the cement- pit to fetch the wherewithal to block the door?
2884What would happen in an emergency?
2884What would it be had the work been done by the insect, equipped with its tools of exquisite precision?
2884What would it tell us if the insect consented to it?
2884What would the males do if they were taken from home?
2884What, then, passes in that little Hymenopteron brain?
2884When there is more than she needs, what earthly motive impels the Dioxys to destroy a rival in the germ stage?
2884Whence this neglect to practise mimesis,''protective mimicry''?
2884Where will they find a creature more richly endowed with talent?
2884Which of the eight cells is the right one?
2884Who could say, when the perforators are numerous, to what lengths this accumulation can go?
2884Who knows?
2884Who?
2884Why are not those early repairs of hers repeated?
2884Why are we deprived of it?
2884Why can not she allow the larva, her mess- mate, to take advantage of the remains and afterwards to shift for itself as best it can?
2884Why does it flaunt its red, black and white in patches clashing violently with one another?
2884Why does man want to know things?
2884Why is he not indifferent to them, with the lofty philosophy of the animals?
2884Why should we?
2884Why... oh, where have I got to?
2884Will it be able to leave the present and return to the past?
2884Will it bring back mortar from its present journey to repair the injured jar as it did just now?
2884Will it decide to hark back to a task that is much more pressing than the one on which it was engaged?
2884Will the Bee, once more a builder, mixing fresh cement, now attend to the leakage at the bottom?
2884Will they succeed?
2884Within these limits, are animals capable of reasoning?
2884Would he have gone back to Avignon, had he had the strength?
2884Would it not be worth its while to follow the example of the Cabbage- caterpillar and imitate the verdure of the plant that feeds it?
2884Would she be guilty of such inconceivable maternal aberration as to leave her nurseling without nourishment?
2884Would she lay it in an empty cell?
2884You see the words written on the face-- stormy, rain-- do you see, Bastien?''
2884so that it may keep fresh for her larva, while in no wise imperilling that larva''s safety?
2884this faculty of finding their way in unknown country?
5730''Are you a Band of Mercy boy?'' 5730 Anything else?"
5730Are these your horses?
5730Are you willing to take a good deal of trouble, Philip?
5730Ca n''t You Talk?
5730Can I help you about anything this morning?
5730Can we get the children to a safe place?
5730Can we not put her in a little tub and bathe her?
5730Did you ever know of another cat that was friendly with a hen or a chicken?
5730Did you keep him chained?
5730Do cows eat anything but hay and grass?
5730Do sheep need much care?
5730Do they eat anything but scraps from the kitchen?
5730Do they go to pasture every day?
5730Do you give meat to the hens?
5730Do you suppose you can help me now?
5730Do you think they do?
5730Do you think,said Ned, with a superior smile,"that wars are going to stop because you disapprove of them?"
5730Do you truly think that a man who stays at home can be as good a patriot as a soldier who goes to fight for his country?
5730Does a bit need to be warmed?
5730Does he need any food but hay and grass?
5730Does he wriggle? 5730 He does n''t belong to you, does he?"
5730How did you happen to own him?
5730How do you keep him in such good condition?
5730How far did she go with him?
5730How often do you wash him?
5730How was it?
5730I said:''Does it belong to God?'' 5730 I suppose you know,"said Uncle Frank,"that a dog needs vegetable food, and that he can not keep well without it?"
5730Is Chum a good watchdog?
5730Is it easy to milk a cow?
5730Is it possible this was once my little dog?
5730May I go swimming with you then?
5730May she eat meat and fish?
5730May she have all the milk she wants?
5730My dearest Chippy, how did you get out of the cage?
5730Now who told you that?
5730Please tell me,says Mr. Robin,"how I am to know that you care so much for some kinds of fruit, and so little for others?
5730Well, Sammy?
5730Were the ants doing any harm to you? 5730 What are you shooting, Frank?"
5730What did you do that for?
5730What do you mean by giving them green food?
5730What do you think, Jack?
5730What does he have to eat, and how often do you feed him?
5730What does it cost, this garniture of death? 5730 What else do chickens eat?"
5730What else may she have, mamma?
5730What else must I do?
5730What have they done to you?
5730What is that yellow dish by the laundry door?
5730What is this I am giving them?
5730What shall I do?
5730What would you like, and where shall I get it?
5730Where are you going?
5730Where does he sleep?
5730Where is Rover? 5730 Where may she sleep?"
5730Why did you chain him?
5730Why do you have all these little houses besides your large hen- house?
5730Why does a dog pant like that?
5730Will his tail ever grow again?
5730Will you let me feed them?
5730Will you take me fishing this afternoon?
5730Am I happy?
5730And have you found the sheep?"
5730And loved so well a high behavior, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay?
5730And the splendor of the Pashas there; What''s their pomp and riches?
5730Are we not unjust to any living creature when we shrink from it because to us it does not seem beautiful?
5730Are you coming with me, or shall I go alone?"
5730As he passed me, whistling, I said:--"''Why did you pick up that pitcher?''
5730At rich men''s tables eaten bread and pulse?
5730But can there be no other motive than a selfish one?
5730But how can he fasten a nest of twigs to the upright chimney wall?
5730Can any name too harsh be given to the men and women who turn adrift these timid, helpless creatures?
5730Did you ever hear the story of Theodore Parker and the frogs?"
5730Did you ever know of a frog''s doing any harm?
5730Did you ever see a hen lying down in the dust, and throwing it all over herself?
5730Did you ever think how many horses work all their lives without any rest worth mentioning?"
5730Did you take him to walk often?"
5730Do n''t you know the old Welsh saying,''Happy is the man who is as wise as a pig''?
5730Do n''t you remember, George, that day when we fought over the bag of marbles we found in an old cellar?
5730Do n''t you think so, Robert?"
5730Do the feathers look quite so pretty to you when you think of all this?
5730Do they think we enjoy for our music Staccatoes of"scat"?
5730Do you know the little woodmouse, That pretty little thing, That sits among the forest leaves, Or by the forest spring?
5730Do you know who planted that little butternut tree in the field?
5730Do you see, too, that the animals face the barn, instead of staring at a blank wall all day?"
5730Do you think that a cage would make you happy if you had wings?
5730Do you think, if you were I, you could be quite happy?
5730Does not the horse on the right look quite as well as the other?
5730Does the way grow harder?
5730Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
5730Have the birds no rights which we are bound to respect?
5730Have you ever looked at your cat''s eyes?
5730Have you ever seen his cradle swaying from an elm branch?
5730Have you ever thought what the world would be without the birds?
5730He does n''t look like my other horses, does he?"
5730He said as plainly as he could,"Am I not a clever dog?"
5730He was delighted when Sandy said,"Would you like to go for a walk?"
5730How do we know so much about them?
5730How does Cruelty to Animals affect Meat, Milk, and Fish?
5730How shall we protect the Birds?
5730How then do you suppose he gathers the twigs for his nest?
5730How would you like to be tied to a kennel all day, with no chance to run about?
5730I do not fear for thee, though wroth The tempest rushes through the sky: For are we not God''s children both, Thou, little sandpiper, and I?
5730If no woman would buy these feathers, do you suppose that milliners would keep them for sale?
5730In return, what does he ask?
5730In this free land of ours shall we deny freedom to the bird, which, above all other creatures, needs space and sunshine?
5730In what way are her eyes different from ours?
5730Is a spider an insect?
5730Is it comfortable to feel that for the sake of being in the fashion you have been the cause of such distress?
5730Is it not wonderful how they can make this long journey without a compass or map to guide them?
5730Is it not worth while to think how much better it is to have no caged pets at all?
5730Is the mother hen always fond of her chickens?"
5730Is the pleasure of wearing a dead bird enough to pay for this suffering?
5730Let us not be content with the smaller question, What can the birds do for us?
5730Loved the wood- rose, and left it on its stalk?
5730May I keep her for my own?"
5730Must their claim to life be based on the fact that they do us good or give us pleasure?
5730Oh, why did you follow?
5730One of the party came up alone and we inquired:''Where is Lincoln?''
5730Poor harmless insect, thither fly, And life''s short hour enjoy;''Tis all thou hast, and why should I That little all destroy?
5730Several appear to be looking at something off to the right-- Rover?]
5730She turned as she saw Robert, and said pleasantly,"Do you want to help me feed the chickens?"
5730Small Janet sits weeping''mid the daisies;"Little sister sweet, Must you follow Roger?"
5730THE GOLDFINCH Have you ever noticed the downy white seeds of the thistle?
5730Then he heard his mother say:"Why, my boy, what are you dreaming about?
5730This is not a very good way to treat a friend, is it?
5730To be treated, now, just as you treat us,-- The question is pat,-- To take just our chances in living, Would YOU be a cat?
5730To what warm shelter canst thou fly?
5730Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust?
5730What are the Principal Lessons taught by"Black Beauty"?
5730What becomes of the poor little defenseless things?
5730What did that boy say to you about the frogs?"
5730What else did he say?"
5730What shall we do?
5730What would have happened if I had not been here, I should like to know?"
5730What would spring be without the bluebird, or June without the oriole?
5730Where have you come from, old fellow, and where is your master?"
5730Wherefore do you stop?
5730Who would n''t?"
5730Why do n''t they let me in?
5730Why do they shut me out in the cold?
5730Why do we see these birds so seldom?
5730Why not protect your fruits by planting wild varieties that we like?"
5730Why should my tyrant will suspend A life by wisdom giv''n, Or sooner bid thy being end Than was designed by Heav''n?
5730Why?
5730With forehead star, and silver tail, And three white feet to match, The gay, half- broken, sorrel colt, Which one of us could catch?
5730Would the boy have been so proud of his good shot if he had known the whole story?
5730Would you not think that they would be very tired after flying all night?
5730You have always found it there, have n''t you, old fellow?"
5730[ Illustration: Caption:"Ca n''t you talk?"
5730but ask ourselves the larger one, What can we do for the birds?
5730if that boy could know How glad they were when they saw him go, Say, say, do you think next day He could possibly steal those eggs away?
5730if you wo n''t fight?"
5730say, do yon hear?
5730was there ever so merry a note?
5730was there no better way A moment''s joy to gain Than to make sorrow that must mar the day With such despairing pain?
38208''Ah, indeed?
38208''Ah, it''s all very well to growl, but you''ll dance a minuet, wo n''t you, old fellow?''
38208''And Gazelle ate it all?''
38208''And do you remember calling in Pritchard, who was scraping up a bed of fuchsias in the garden, and making him lick up the egg?''
38208''And if you fail,''asked Philip,''what price will you pay for your good conceit of yourself?''
38208''And shall I carry you home again?''
38208''And what did you do to him then?''
38208''And what did you have-- some of the king''s roast beef?''
38208''And what is the method, my good friend?''
38208''And where are you going?''
38208''And where did you find it, Madame Lamarque?''
38208''And why that monkey rather than another?''
38208''And why?''
38208''At Caen?
38208''At what o''clock?''
38208''But how could he howl with a hare in his mouth?''
38208''But how could he howl with a hare in his mouth?''
38208''But what is he pointing at?''
38208''But what makes you think so?''
38208''But when he carried away your hare, he must have had it in his mouth?''
38208''But where am I to find two white mice and a guinea- pig?''
38208''But, Michel, do you think that that youth would part with so useful an animal?''
38208''But,''said I, much shocked,''is the poor beast dead after such an accident?''
38208''Buy him, indeed,''said I;''have I forty francs to give away every day, to say nothing of a guinea- pig and two white mice?''
38208''Ca n''t you see that M. Vatrin is cutting a stick?''
38208''Dead, sir?
38208''Did I say so?
38208''Did n''t I say so, sir?''
38208''Did you indeed, sir?
38208''Did you_ ever_ see such a rascal?''
38208''Do you happen to know,''said Fan to the obliging harlequin,''_ who_ you have lent your hat to?''
38208''Do you hear, Michel?''
38208''Do you know Latin, Michel?''
38208''Do you know what will happen if you do that, Michel?''
38208''Do you mean to take him with you?''
38208''Do you see anything?''
38208''Do you think so, Michel?''
38208''Does Pritchard eat eggs, then?''
38208''Does your master feed you well?''
38208''Have you caught Mademoiselle Desgarcins?''
38208''Have you caught the Last of the Laidmanoirs?''
38208''How is it that you never told me this before, Michel?''
38208''How much did you say that tench weighed?''
38208''How so?''
38208''How so?''
38208''In private?''
38208''In the south, perhaps?''
38208''Indeed, sir?
38208''Is that all?''
38208''It is a cat''s name, then?''
38208''No, why on earth do you ask such a thing?''
38208''Not bitter almonds,''I answered,''because they contain prussic acid; but why not parsley?''
38208''Oh, Oscar, Oscar lad, what_ have_ you done?''
38208''Oh, could you really?''
38208''Oh, sir, as to that, I am as innocent as a baby-- and, as I was saying, if you will only come out with me to- night--''''Must I go far, Michel?''
38208''Pritchard, do you hear what is said about you?''
38208''Pritchard?
38208''Suppose we give her the parrot?''
38208''That means that they can sing scales-- gamut, I suppose?''
38208''There, do you hear him?
38208''There, sir, did n''t I say so?''
38208''Well, Vatrin, what do you think of him?''
38208''Well, sir, could you believe that it got out of your room-- goodness knows how-- and walked downstairs and right into the tank?''
38208''Well, sir, whom can this crime of stolen eggs benefit more than Pritchard?''
38208''Well, what are the butt ends of your muskets for?
38208''Well, what is it then?''
38208''Well, what is it, Michel?''
38208''Well, what?''
38208''What did I plant there?''
38208''What did he say, Michel?
38208''What do you think is the matter?''
38208''What has happened, Michel?''
38208''What is it then?''
38208''What is it?''
38208''What is the use, Michel, since parrots will not breed in this country?''
38208''What joke?''
38208''What on earth do you mean?''
38208''What should I miss, Michel?''
38208''What the deuce are you about?''
38208''What''s the matter, Joseph?''
38208''What''s the matter?''
38208''What''s the matter?''
38208''What''s the matter?''
38208''What, Michel?
38208''Where are we now, sir?''
38208''Where is Oscar?''
38208''Where is the broomstick?''
38208''Where then?''
38208''Who?
38208''You know that I have just put some pellets into your Pritchard?''
38208''You mean to say you do n''t guess?''
38208''You remember, sir, what your solicitor said to you one day when I was in the room?''
38208''You thought it good, sir?''
38208And do you know what bird this is?''
38208And what do you think she saw?
38208And what of the troubadour and his monkey?''
38208And what will M. Corrège say, I should like to know?''
38208Are you not rather sorry for the poor wolf?
38208At each cage they passed he came to a standstill, and gazing at the animal with greedy eyes, he said,''Mother, would n''t you like to eat that?''
38208But about his foot?''
38208But could little mice feet tread so heavily as that?
38208But then, how to get at it?
38208But what was Portugo doing at that hour, and why was he awake while the other dogs slumbered?
38208But where are you?''
38208Could he have dropped them, or had he left them behind in the wood where he had rested?
38208Did poor Mysouff come here with a false character seeking a situation?
38208Do you recognise him?''
38208Eh, lad?''
38208He sees the Indian corn through the glass----''''Well, Michel?''
38208How can anybody shoot if he wo n''t keep in?''
38208How could I refuse a present offered so cordially?
38208How could he get into the hen- house?''
38208How could he without speech explain that the death of the birds was an accident-- an unfortunate accident?
38208How did you come into the net?''
38208How do you suppose he lost his foot?''
38208How have I shown Pritchard what is wrong?''
38208How was he to tell him it was quite a mistake?
38208I cried,''do you hear that?''
38208Is that to be called a Christian language?''
38208It would have been more to the purpose if he had said,''Monsieur Dumas, may I_ incommode_ you with my monkey and my parrot?''
38208It''s humiliating for a man, do n''t you know?''
38208Might not the dog''s strange and unaccountable hatred for the young officer be a clue to the mysterious murder of his late master?
38208My fault that Pritchard eats eggs?''
38208Not bad, was it?''
38208Oh, sir, why did you not bring a female as well as a male?''
38208Oh,_ that''s_ what you''re after, is it?
38208Pritchard did n''t need to be told twice, but what do you think the cunning rascal did?
38208Shall I send for a cab for you?''
38208Supposing a thief had got in?
38208That he had only been in fun?
38208Then, seeing the strange dog look pensive, he added,''Would you like to dine with us?''
38208There sure enough was Mr. Gully swimming about contentedly, but where were the goldfish?
38208They have opened the door of the aviary----''''And so my birds have flown away?''
38208Vatrin was so excited that he had forgotten to say''Good morning''or''How do you do?''
38208Was he dreaming still?
38208Was it not the cook herself who found him-- who took him by force from the heap of sticks behind which he had sought refuge?
38208Was it possible that he had killed them?
38208Was not I there to doctor him?''
38208Well, then,''exclaimed the orator, after having read this passage,''what more remains to be said?
38208Well?''
38208What could have happened?
38208What has the rascal been doing now?''
38208What is that?''
38208What shall we call the cat?''
38208What would his master say?
38208When a mutual sympathy had been produced by this means, a conversation something like this would begin:''Have you a good master?''
38208Where else would he have it?''
38208Where may he be?''
38208Where to, gentlemen?''
38208Why should his brother take the trouble to stand up on his hind legs when there was nobody to laugh and clap him?
38208Will he ever return?
38208Would you mind my putting a few pellets into your brute of a dog?
38208You are trying to beat me, are you?
38208You recollect his coming to see you?''
38208You think it is he who steals the eggs?
38208You will ask what the change of government had to do with my beasts?
38208You would beat a woman-- and a former artiste to M. Odry, would you?
38208You''re going to cut up rough, are you?
38208Your dictionary never says that the arararanna, otherwise called the blue macaw, produces young at Caen?''
38208[ Illustration: PRITCHARD AND THE HENS]''You think he would have the wickedness to say_ that_, Michel?''
38208[ Illustration: THE LION CAUGHT IN THE PIT] The question is sometimes asked, why does the lion roar?
38208[ Illustration:''AND WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE SAW?'']
38208[ Illustration:''IT''S A REGULAR KENNEL'']''Every day, Michel?
38208[ Illustration:''MONSIEUR DUMAS, MAY I ACCOMMODATE YOU WITH MY MONKEY AND MY PARROT?'']
38208[ Illustration:''OH, OSCAR, OSCAR LAD, WHAT_ HAVE_ YOU DONE?'']
38208[ Illustration:{ THE AUVERGNAT AND HIS MONKEY}]''Can he do anything else?''
38208and----?''
38208did you actually say that?''
38208do you hear that?''
38208do you think Pritchard has a bad opinion of me?''
38208exclaimed Fan,''is this how my orders are obeyed?
38208he has made friends with his rival in the affections of Mademoiselle Desgarcins?''
38208he roared to Double Mouth,''what are you about, standing there?
38208my fault?
38208not the worst?''
38208said I,''Portugo has n''t barked yet, has he?''
38208what are you about?''
38208where is he off to now?''
38208where is the beast?''
38208who has stolen them?''
38208why, is its chest delicate?''
38208yes-- but oh, so frightened!--and what made him smart so dreadfully?
38208you do n''t know_ that_, gentlemen?''
38208you do n''t see a rabbit sitting?
30249Surely,said a woman to me,"when a cat sits watching at a mouse- hole, she has some image in her mind of the mouse in its hole?"
30249A red squirrel will chip up green apples and pears for the seeds at the core: can he know, on general principles, that these fruits contain seeds?
30249Am I guilty, then, as has been charged, of preferring the deductive method of reasoning to the more modern and more scientific inductive method?
30249Because man, then, is half animal, shall we say that the animal is half man?
30249Behold the tumble- bug with her ball of dung by the roadside; where is she going with it?
30249Bring it to the hermit for his breakfast?
30249But I shall have more to say upon this point in another chapter, entitled"What do Animals Know?"
30249But do you suppose the fond creature ever comes to know why you do not want his feet upon you?
30249But how did they know of the destruction of their young, and how can we account for their concerted action?
30249But if the two hawks look alike, would not the birds come to regard them both as bird- eaters, since one of them does eat birds?
30249But if we mean by interpretation an answer to the inquiry,"What does this scene or incident suggest to you?
30249But would she not root if she had no pigs, and would not the pigs root if they had no mother?
30249Can it meet new conditions?
30249Can it solve a new problem?
30249Can we believe that the hermit crab thinks and reasons?
30249Can we find any other word for his act?
30249Could any person who knows the birds credit such a tale?
30249DO ANIMALS THINK AND REFLECT?
30249Did it reflect and say, Now is the time for me to bend down and thrust my tip into the ground?
30249Did its parent not try to teach it?
30249Did not its act imply something more than instinct?
30249Did she hear it gnawing the roots of the grasses, or did she see a movement in the turf beneath which the grub was at work?
30249Did she make up her mind?
30249Did she think, compare, weigh?
30249Did the drouth destroy all their eggs and young, and did they know this and so come back to try again?
30249Did the raspberry bush think, or choose what it should do?
30249Did the wife tell him, or the husband?
30249Did they receive any parental instruction?
30249Do they know winter is coming?
30249Do we draw the right inference?
30249Do we get at the true meaning of the facts?
30249Do we mean the communication of knowledge, or the communication of emotion?
30249Do you think the germs from the first knot knew where to find the other plum trees?
30249Does he ring true?
30249Does he see out of the back of his head?--that is, does he see on more than one side of a thing?
30249Does it ever take to the fields and woods, and live on fruit and land- insects, and nest in trees like other thrushes?
30249Does man know his proper food in the same way?
30249Does not even an old trout know more about hooks than a young one?
30249Does not man wink, and dodge, and sneeze, and laugh, and cry, and blush, and fall in love, and do many other things without thought or will?
30249Does not solitude bring out a man''s peculiarities and differentiate him from others?
30249Does not some clue to them reach his senses?
30249Flying and walking are both modes of locomotion, and yet may we not fairly say they differ in kind?
30249Has a cat ever been known to bait a rat with a piece of cheese?
30249Has he not been struck by the thought,"I do not know which way my master is going: I will wait and see"?
30249How could a crow tell his fellows of some future event, or of some experience of the day?
30249How could a fox or a wolf instruct its young in such matters as traps?
30249How could an animal know that a man will protect it on special occasions, when ordinarily it has exactly the opposite feeling?
30249How could he tell him this thing is dangerous, this is harmless, save by his actions in the presence of those things?
30249How could she make so fine and far- seeing a judgment, wholly out of the range of brute affairs, and so purely philosophical and humanly ethical?
30249How could the bird obtain this knowledge?
30249How could the bird with its beak tear out a broad piece of paper?
30249How could the crow gain the knowledge or the experience which this trick implies?
30249How could the mare have known her companion was blind?
30249How could they do it?
30249How did she acquire all this knowledge?
30249How did she know where to drill?
30249How did they know we had had a beech- nut year?
30249How does every individual come to share in the common purpose?
30249How does he know which is the thinnest side?
30249How else shall one explain their second appearance in the marshes?
30249How it arose, what its genesis was, who can tell?
30249How should it know that there are such things as crabs?
30249How should it know that they can be taken with bait and line or by fishing for them?
30249How would the mother duck get her young up out of that well and down to the ground?
30249I am quite positive that mice will try to pull one of their fellows out of a trap, but what the motive is, who shall say?
30249I have taken persons to hear the hermit thrush, and I have fancied that they were all the time saying to themselves,"Is that all?"
30249IX DO ANIMALS THINK AND REFLECT?
30249If a fox would bait poultry with corn, why should he not, in his wild state, bait mice and squirrels with nuts and seeds?
30249If natural selection has developed and sharpened the claws of the cat and the scent of the fox, why should it not develop and sharpen their wits also?
30249If nature study is only to exploit your own individuality, why bother about what other people have or have not seen or heard?
30249If not, where were they?
30249If so, how did they communicate the intelligence and set the whole mighty army in motion?
30249If so, how does it differ from free intelligence or judgment?
30249If the dog in such cases does not reflect, what does he do?
30249In fact, that they would die as soon in the air as in the fresh water?
30249Indeed, what is there about the wood thrush that is not pleasing?
30249Is a change of habits to meet new conditions, or the taking advantage of accidental circumstances, an evidence of sense?
30249Is he in love with the truth, or with the strange, the bizarre?
30249Is his eye single?
30249Is instinct resourceful?
30249Is it a real fit?
30249Is it because his foot would leave a scent that would give his secret away, while his nose does not?
30249Is it equally true that the high color of most fruits is to attract some hungry creature to come and eat them and thus scatter the seeds?
30249Is it fear?
30249Is it himself, then, and not the truth that he is seeking to exploit?
30249Is it not the same in a degree among men?
30249Is it probable that a mere animal reflects upon the future any more than it does upon the past?
30249Is it solicitous about the future well- being of its offspring any more than it is curious about its ancestry?
30249Is she thinking about it?
30249Is there any other animal that would act as the collie did under like circumstances?
30249Is there anything which, without great violence to language, may be called a school of the woods?
30249Is this act the result of knowledge or of experience?
30249It is not afraid of the skin itself; why should it infer that squirrels, for instance, are?
30249Many of the shells upon the beach are very showy; to what end?
30249Many of the toadstools are highly colored also; how do they profit by it?
30249May it not be because the wasps are solitary?
30249Newspaper reading tends to make one cautious-- and who does not read newspapers in these days?
30249Now am I to accept this story without question because I find it printed in a book?
30249Now, can the action of the plover in this case be explained on the theory of instinct alone?
30249Now, how did the fox know that the trap was sprung and was now harmless?
30249Now, if by interpretation we mean an answer to the question,"What does this mean?"
30249Now, what is the interpretation?
30249Or how tell of a newly found food supply save by flying eagerly to it?
30249Or were these restless spirits unable to fold their wings even in sleep?
30249Poisonous fruits are also highly colored; to what end?
30249Reason and instinct are both manifestations of intelligence, yet do they not belong to different planes?
30249Reason heeds the points of the compass and takes note of the topography of the country, but what can animals know of these things?
30249Shall we deny anything to a bird or beast that makes it more interesting, and more worthy of our study and admiration?
30249Shall we say these horses deliberately committed suicide?
30249That birds and beasts do communicate with each other, who can doubt?
30249That lusty_ caw- aw, caw- aw_ that one hears in spring and summer, like the voice of authority or command, what does it mean?
30249The bird had learned to be unafraid in the cage, and why should it be afraid out of the cage?
30249The hickory nut is almost white; why does it not seek concealment also?
30249The puzzle is, how did this masterly observer know that this state of affairs existed between this couple?
30249The songless birds-- why has Nature denied them this gift?
30249The sparrow''s song meant nothing to her at all, and how could she share the enthusiasm of the poet?
30249The ways of nature,--who can map them, or fathom them, or interpret them, or do much more than read a hint correctly here and there?
30249They are mostly down, and why should they not fall without any danger to life or limb?
30249They could not carry it with their feet, and how could they manage it with their beaks?
30249This may be all right in fiction or romance or fable, but why call the outcome natural history?
30249This moth feeds upon the nectar of flowers like the hummingbird, and why should it not have the hummingbird''s form and manner?
30249Unless the seed itself is digested, what is there to tempt the bird to devour it, or to reward it for so doing?
30249V FACTORS IN ANIMAL LIFE The question that the Californian schoolchildren put to me,"Have the birds got sense?"
30249VIII WHAT DO ANIMALS KNOW?
30249WHAT DO ANIMALS KNOW?
30249Was he indeed hearing the bird of his youth?
30249Was the act an act of judgment, or simply an unreasoning impulse, like so much else in the lives of the wild creatures?
30249Was the press of birds so great that they needed to keep their wings moving to ventilate the shaft, as do certain of the bees in a crowded hive?
30249Was the spot agreed upon beforehand and notice served upon all the members of the tribe?
30249Was this of itself an act of intelligence?
30249What benefit to the tree, directly or indirectly, is all this wealth of color of the autumn?
30249What can a calf or a cow know about sharpened nails, and the use of a rock to dull them?
30249What can be more unsuitable, untractable, for a nest in a hole or cavity than the twigs the house wren uses?
30249What could any horse know about such a disability?
30249What do Ruskin''s writings upon nature interpret?
30249What does he know about maple trees and the spring flow of sap?
30249What does it all mean?
30249What does it mean?
30249What does or can a horse know about death, or about self- destruction?
30249What experience has the race of orioles had with cloth, that any member of it should know how to unravel it in that way?
30249What is the meaning of the fossils in the rocks?
30249What should he do now?
30249What their various calls mean, who shall tell?
30249What was she going to do with the egg?
30249What was the meaning of it?
30249What were they saying?
30249When a fowl eats gravel or sand, is it probable that the fowl knows what the practice is for, or has any notion at all about the matter?
30249When and how did it get this experience?
30249When this happens, does the tree start a new bud and then develop a new shoot to take the place of the lost leader?
30249Where was her experience of its supposed truth obtained?
30249Wherefore, then, are they so brightly colored?
30249Who ever saw a trained animal, unless it be the elephant, do anything that betrayed the least spark of conscious intelligence?
30249Who ever saw any of our common birds display any sense or judgment in the handling of strings?
30249Who knows?
30249Who would have him more human or less canine?
30249Why are robins so abundant?
30249Why are these parasitical birds found the world over?
30249Why does not the fox take a stick and spring the trap he is so afraid of?
30249Why does the cowbird lay its egg in another bird''s nest?
30249Why does the dog, the world over, use his nose in covering the bone he is hiding, and not his paw?
30249Why does the wild flower, as we chance upon it in the woods or bogs, give us more pleasure than the more elaborate flower of the garden or lawn?
30249Why is corn so bright colored, and wheat and barley so dull, and rice so white?
30249Why is the Canada jay so much tamer than are other jays?
30249Why is the Canada jay so tame and familiar about your camp in the northern woods or in the Rockies, and the other jays so wary?
30249Why is the fox so cunning?
30249Why is the porcupine so tame and stupid?
30249Why is the spruce grouse so stupid compared with most other species?
30249Why not sit in your study and invent your facts to suit your fancyings?
30249Why set it down as a record of actual observation?
30249Why should he not?
30249Why should not Nature repeat herself in this way?
30249Why should the crow be afraid of a gun, if it had learned not to be afraid of the gunner?
30249Why, in fact, go to the woods at all?
30249Why, then, has not this resemblance been brought about?
30249Why, then, should it not take on these alluring colors to help along this end?
30249Why?
30249Why?
30249Will her failure in this case cause her to lose faith in the protective influence of the shadow of a human dwelling?
30249With one on each side, how could they fly with the nest between them?
30249Wolves reared with dogs learn to bark, and who has not seen a dog draw its face as if trying to laugh as its master does?
30249Would not any serious student of nature in our day know in advance of experiment that all this was childish and absurd?
30249Would the same mice share their last crumb with their fellow if he were starving?
30249Would they not at once identify the harmless one with their real enemy and thus fear them both alike?
30249_ Have_ the birds and our other wild neighbors sense, as distinguished from instinct?
30249how do you feel about it?"
30249or of a thousand and one other things in the organic and inorganic world about us?
30249or of the carving and sculpturing of the landscape?
30249or,"What is the exact truth about it?"
30249that little squeaky thing?"
30249then, how could it weave it into the wires of its cage?
3462A Spider, that is certain; but which?
3462Able to keep fresh under the mandibles of the Sphex- larvae, why did they promptly go bad under the mandibles of the Scolia- larvae?
3462Accustomed to the first, will she fail to know the second?
3462Among the theorists of the day, is there one clear- sighted enough to solve the riddle for us?
3462And does this cocoon, my precious booty, really belong to the Scoliae?
3462And now please tell me, what did this prototype of the Sphegidae hunt?
3462And the Dog: how is it that of all the domestic animals he alone is able to accompany us everywhere, even on the most arduous expeditions?
3462Are the fangs actuated by a special ganglion?
3462Are they actuated by fibres issuing from centres exercising further functions?
3462Are we to class the two mechanisms together?
3462At what spots should the egg now be laid?
3462Besides, where would they lead us?
3462Besides, who knows?
3462Between the two opposite slants of the sting, which is itself very short, what can the distance be?
3462But what are we to say of the Empusa?
3462But what does she do there?
3462But which of the Scarabaeidae?
3462But... but... what is this?
3462Can an accident ever happen in the Bee''s favour?
3462Can it be that you are the Pompilus''Sheep?
3462Can it be the only vulnerable point, which would necessarily determine the thrust of the lancet?
3462Can the other have been stabbed?
3462Can the poor wretch take comfort by relying on her trusty dagger?
3462Can they have neglected to accommodate themselves to the demands of their environment?
3462Conversely, is the mellivorous larva killed by animal food?
3462Could she have taught you uniformity?
3462Did I not say that its obstinacy in remaining rolled up was due to no acquired prudence but to the necessity of the moment?
3462Did they fulfil the second?
3462Do not the scientist''s theory and the insect''s practice agree most admirably?
3462Do not these preparations for the nymphosis tell us plainly that the creature is not dead?
3462Do they actually wound with their dirks the ganglion whose influence is to be done away with?
3462Do they confine themselves to lodging their drop of poison on the ganglion, or at all events in its immediate neighbourhood?
3462Does it not prove that there is a progressive dismemberment passing from the less essential to the indispensable?
3462Does not this remnant of tenacious vitality in itself show that the organs of primary importance are the last to be attacked?
3462Does she surprise the Spider outside her fortress?
3462Does the Wasp enter the burrow to surprise the Tarantula at the bottom of her lair?
3462Does the vegetable bird- limer, with its sticky rings, derive advantage from these death- struggles?
3462During this fit of delirious joy, what is the wounded caterpillar doing?
3462Food?
3462For example: why has the tiger a coat streaked black and yellow?
3462Has not the animal accomplished to perfection what anatomy and physiology enabled us to foretell?
3462Have you ever seen the larder of a skilled Hunting Wasp, a Sphex for instance, a Scolia, an Ammophila?
3462Have you had the curiosity to look through the pages in which I set forth the detailed results of my observations?
3462How did the Cerceris manage to recognize in these jewels the Weevil, the near relative of the vulgar Phynotomus?
3462How does she manage to recognize in this spectre the near relation of the Praying Mantis?
3462How does the mother know that the syrup, a treat for her, is unwholesome for her young?
3462How has a miserable grub learnt what our knowledge can not tell us?
3462How indeed could I hope that a creature whose art is practised in the darkness of a heap of mould would decide to work in broad daylight?
3462How is he to capture the imposing creature, how to avoid its sting?
3462I repeat, who knows?
3462If our observations were to cease here, could we say which of the two is the hunter and which the hunted?
3462If the Pompilus has perfected her method of attack, why has not the Segestria perfected her method of defence?
3462If the mother sets no value on the Grasshopper, what then can be the reason of her refusal?
3462In front, behind, on the sides, the back or the belly?
3462In this respect, what have the Brachyderes and the Balaninus in common in the eyes of the townsman, the peasant, the child or the Cerceris?
3462In what fencing- school was the slayer taught her terrible upward blow under the chin?
3462Instead of this unscrupulously omnivorous race, levying booty upon every kind of game, to its very great advantage, what do we see to- day?
3462Is it not true that, before striking the adversary, you should take care not to get wounded yourself?
3462Is it possible that centuries upon centuries should have modified the one to its advantage without succeeding in modifying the other?
3462Is it the art practised by the tailor when cutting his stuff, with mandibles taking the place of scissors?
3462Is it the colouring?
3462Is it the general appearance that guides her?
3462Is not man''s complaisant stomach, adapted to the largest variety of nourishment, one of his great zoological privileges?
3462Is not the other there, facing her, ready to snap at the back of her head, inflicting a wound which would result in sudden death?
3462Is not the world of living creatures ruled by the stomach?
3462Is she a poacher, a pillager of other''s property, or a genuine huntress?
3462Is she really invulnerable?
3462Is such a duel possible?
3462Is the evidence conclusive this time?
3462Is there any chance of a commutation of the death- penalty?
3462Is this Wasp invulnerable, that she thus escapes from the terrible fangs?
3462Is this all?
3462Is this an epicure''s preference, due to the greater juiciness of the flesh?
3462Is this centre directly smitten by the weapon?
3462Is this due to acquired caution?
3462Is this due to extraordinary powers of excavation on her part?
3462Is this due to feebleness of the teeth?
3462Is this enough to dispose of the very improbable supposition that the determination of the sex depends on the quantity of food?
3462It is fairly convincing, is it not?
3462It will come; but when?
3462May it not be that...?
3462Now what does this newcomer, of whom I know nothing, want?
3462Of what use are these trophies of corpses hanging by a leg or a wing?
3462Of what use are they to the plant?
3462Oh, they are"thereabouts,"are they?
3462Once again, whence comes this strange immunity of the Calicurgus held between the legs and assailed by the daggers of the Tarantula?
3462Or is it poisoned with virus, from a very small distance, by the progressive impregnation of the neighbouring tissues?
3462Shall I abandon the problem?
3462Shall I get her or shall I not?
3462Shall we forget that the one turns a shoulder of mutton before the hearth, while the other divides time into seconds?
3462Shall we reproach him with these insanities, when we hear another, misled by the Monkey''s build, acclaim the Pithecanthropus as man''s precursor?
3462Shall we, in our helplessness, admit ourselves beaten by the evolutionary effects of diet?
3462Should we not feel sorry for the imprudent Pompilus?
3462The farmers had to wait for the sun to repair the disaster; but how were they to keep the famishing new- born grubs alive for a few days?
3462Then are the fangs powerless to pierce the Wasp''s integuments?
3462Then with which Scarabaeid does the empty skin which is still unknown to me correspond?
3462There remains this other problem, one of incomparable interest: why are the Bees robbed of their honey before being served to the larvae?
3462To evoking the instincts of bygone ages, which have not been preserved by fossilization?
3462Was it really my fault?
3462Was its diet varied or uniform?
3462What are they seeking in these evolutions of theirs, which are repeated a hundred times over?
3462What are they waiting for?
3462What are we to conclude from all this?
3462What are we to say of the Grey Worm and other caterpillars beloved of the Ammophilae?
3462What better, for example, than the term Sphex?
3462What can be the reason?
3462What chance has she of plunging her lancet into it, if there is nothing to guide her?
3462What chance would hazard offer her of obtaining this prey, the most suitable of all because the most vulnerable?
3462What could they give their Silk- worms while waiting for the mulberry to sprout afresh?
3462What did she do?
3462What do these four huntresses and the others of similar habits do with their victims whose crops are more or less swollen with honey?
3462What do you say to it all?
3462What does the Wasp addicted to a predatory life eat, of course in the larval state?
3462What does the emptied crop portend?
3462What does the plant do with its captures?
3462What happens in the insect''s stomach to make the adult seek passionately what the youngster refused lest it should die?
3462What have the Locust, the Cricket, the Praying Mantis and the Mole- cricket in common, as regards their general appearance?
3462What have these two Beetles in common as regards shape?
3462What is it?
3462What is she doing, exploring those empty webs?
3462What is the use of continuing this list of checks?
3462What is to be done in the face of this danger which might disconcert the most practised surgeon?
3462What is wounded then, to procure this profound inertia of the poison- fangs?
3462What ought the powerful Cetonia- grub to do to defy the Two- banded Scolia, who is far less vigorous than her victim?
3462What shall I say of the Black Tachytes( T. nigra, VAN DER LIND) that I have not already said in telling the story of the Yellow- winged Sphex?
3462What should the Wasp have done to capture this much- coveted game?
3462What then is the method which she employs against the Segestria, always on the alert, ready for defence, audacious to the point of aggression?
3462What was the Wasp seeking when she riddled the soil with these tunnels which are now full of running sands?
3462What will be the outcome of it all?
3462What will become of it, lying belly upwards on its bed of leaf- mould?
3462What will come of such temerity?
3462What will emerge from this?
3462What will happen if the experimenter gives it a game to which it is not accustomed?
3462What would be the outcome of a there or thereabouts under these conditions?
3462What would become of an egg laid on such victuals?
3462What would become of the Lark were his gizzard able to digest only one seed, invariably the same?
3462What would become of the Swallow if he required, in order to live, one particular Gnat, a single Gnat, always the same?
3462What would happen if the ladder were prolonged, if the offspring of the Ammophila fed on Spiders were given the same food generation after generation?
3462What would happen if, in exchange for her Praying Mantis, I were to give the Tachytes a young Grasshopper?
3462What would have become of the first- born mammal but for its perfect instinct of suckling?
3462What would he not eat, if he had not to overcome the repugnance dictated by habit rather than by actual necessity?
3462What would it be like if one were stabbed by this colossus?
3462What would the Black Spider need to do to escape her exterminator?
3462What, then, happened in the beginning, when the larva bit for the first time into a luscious victim?
3462When will the acclaimers of chance achieve a like success?
3462Whence arises this insuperable repugnance for provisions to which the family is unaccustomed?
3462Whence do they come, these diminutive Beetles, if not from dining- rooms insufficiently supplied for their needs?
3462Whence does she now derive the temerity thus to enter the Segestria''s haunts?
3462Where am I to dig in the indefinite stretch of sandy soil to light upon a spot frequented by the Scoliae?
3462Where and how?
3462Where is the lightning stroke to be delivered?
3462Where is the sting about to strike?
3462Where will the first stroke be delivered?
3462Which is the assailant?
3462Which of the two is the assailed?
3462Which of the two will become the other''s prey?
3462Which of the two will come up alive?
3462Which shall we hold responsible for the failure, myself or the grub?
3462Who knows?
3462Who struck the blow?
3462Who that has diverted himself, however little, with the study of insects does not know the Pompili?
3462Who would think of connecting two creatures so unlike, of calling them by the same name?
3462Why a label which prepares the mind for an exceptional velocity and announces a race of peerless coursers?
3462Why do the Bee- tribe receive a vegetable diet when the other members of the order receive an animal diet?
3462Why do they not follow your judicious advice?
3462Why does he not turn round?
3462Why does she not strike at the creature''s long abdomen?
3462Why is speed mentioned in this connection?
3462Why is the Osmia, who as a larva fares so well on albumen, fed on honey at the start?
3462Why is this spot stabbed rather than another?
3462Why kill it?
3462Why, he enquired, have Ducks a little curly feather on the rump?
3462Why, yes.... After all, who knows?...
3462Why?
3462Why?
3462Will it survive the winter?
3462Will it thrive on the mixture?
3462Will the digesting of a ragout of little birds, however often repeated by him or his ascendants, suffice to make him a finished bird- catcher?
3462Will the little ogre pass without repugnance from the gamy flavour of a carcase to the scent of flowers?
3462Will the rearing be successful?
3462Will the tactics of the caterpillar- hunters, who stab and stab again, be repeated here?
3462Without the evidence of experiment, what can we rely upon?
3462Would you like to see what becomes of a Cetonia- larva when the organism is wounded in its vital centres at the very beginning?
3462You have n''t, have you?
3462You have n''t, have you?
3462You want figures, millimetres, fractions?
3462Young people who make a hobby of natural history, would you like to discover whether the sacred fire flows in your veins?
18790***** What are you looking at, Charlie?
18790A QUEER FELLOW What do you suppose is in this box?
18790A beauty?
18790A land fish?
18790A mantis?
18790A walking stick?
18790Am I sure it is a dragon fly?
18790And does it not walk?
18790And has it eyes?
18790And what do you suppose they eat?
18790Are the four wings alike?
18790Are there antennæ on its head?
18790Are they not beautiful?
18790Because your mother told you to; well, that is a good reason, but why do you think she told you to use soap suds?
18790But who is this darting over the pond?
18790But why are the little boats that have come to anchor down there moving their paddles so constantly?
18790But you do shoot them, John?
18790Can you find the little coxa and trochanter?
18790Can you hear and feel and smell extra well because of them?
18790Cockroaches may not be pleasant, but who can say they are not interesting?
18790Did any of you ever pick berries where these bugs were?
18790Did you know it?
18790Did you stop to look at them under the magnifying glass?
18790Do its wings not remind you a little of the wings of the corydalus?
18790Do n''t you suppose that may be why the dragon fly is such a strange- looking insect?
18790Do they not look a little like a comb?
18790Do you know how a telescope is made?
18790Do you know it is a near relative of the mantis?
18790Do you know it?
18790Do you know one of the prettiest stories in the world has been written about a cricket?
18790Do you know that some species of your funny little tree hoppers secrete honey dew also, and even have ants to attend them?
18790Do you know, children, that some of the largest of the dragon flies have as many as twenty thousand facets, or small eyes, in each large eye?
18790Do you not remember how the leaf of the jewel weed, or touch- me- not, as it is also called, shines when you plunge it in water?
18790Do you not think so?
18790Do you remember how the hind wings are folded?
18790Do you see it?
18790Do you think you will know a bug when you see it now?
18790Does he sit down somewhere and eat it?
18790Does it not look like a stick?
18790Eat?
18790HEMIPTERA THE GREAT BUG FAMILY[ Illustration] Now, my children, do you know what a bug is?
18790Has everybody forgotten about the dainty little ephemeræ, that live but a day?
18790Has it a jointed abdomen?
18790Has it teeth?
18790Have they an abdomen?
18790Have you ever seen very large, flat brown bugs lying on the ground under the electric street lamps?
18790He snatches one, and then what?
18790How can they fly without wings?
18790How did you like it, John?
18790How do the larvæ get in the ponds?
18790How do you suppose it makes its tunnel?
18790How do you think she manages it?
18790How is he different from the others?
18790How is the delicate larva able to cling to the case tightly enough to pull it along?
18790How long did it take you to get that bird, John?
18790How many facets have its eyes?
18790How many kinds of Jumping Orthoptera are we acquainted with, Ned?
18790How many legs has it?
18790How many of you are acquainted with his lordship, the praying mantis?
18790How_ do_ you suppose it flies with them?
18790I just said bugs do not bite, and now I call them biters?
18790Is it not a cunning insect doll?
18790Is it possible that_ they_ are the larvæ of our fairy May flies?
18790Is n''t she a wise little mother?
18790It is a horrid monster, and you have a good mind to scream?
18790John says, Why do you have to watch in the fall of the year?
18790John, do you know how heavy a load a horse can pull?
18790Katy, why do you not know your own mind and always tell the same story?
18790Mollie wants to know why it would not be a good plan for people who live where there are many mosquitoes to raise dragon flies?
18790My little aphid, how many wings have you when you have any?
18790Near the city of Mexico there are species that lay enormous quantities of eggs in the ponds, and what do you think?
18790Ned, do you think you can be spry enough to scoop it out with the net?
18790Nothing, only you do n''t like them?
18790Now see what a-- a-- what shall I say?
18790Now where is it?
18790Now who can guess?
18790Now, May, where does it make its molasses?
18790Now, water striders, why do you behave so, and what do you eat?
18790Now, what about the thorax?
18790Now, what shall we call these grabbers?
18790Our cockroach is drawing one of its antennæ through its mouth?
18790Pretty golden eye, why do we not oftener see you on the trees and bushes?
18790Richard asks,"Where do May flies come from?
18790SCALE BUGS What, May, you are tired out?
18790See how these wings are veined, and do you not remember how you admired the silvery wings of the corydalus when we spread them out?
18790Should n''t you like to fly like that, children?
18790Sir, why do you have such long antennæ?
18790So you think the frogs spit on the grass do you?
18790Something moving in the bottom of the pond?
18790Sticks and mud-- and-- what is that?
18790Sure enough, Ned, how_ can_ we spread out the wings of a bug in a picture?
18790THE COMICAL TREE HOPPERS Do you know the tree hoppers,--absurd little jokers that they are?
18790THE CRICKET- LIKE GRASSHOPPERS[ Illustration] Now what strange- looking little creature are you?
18790THE WATER BOATMAN What, May; you want to see a bug?
18790The grasshopper somehow reminds you of the praying mantis?
18790The name of the insect order to which they both belong is Neuroptera, from_ neuron_, a nerve, and_ pteron_--who remembers what_ pteron_ means?
18790The swarms of grasshoppers in the late summer?
18790Then chickens and ducks and geese must be birds?
18790Then what do you think happened?
18790Then what do you think it does?
18790Then why is not walking stick a good name for it?
18790They all have--?
18790They are old enough to know better?
18790They are very closely related to-- which division of locusts, do you think?
18790Walking Stick, you here again?"
18790Walking Stick?
18790We call them-- what?
18790We can not very well call him a member of the Running Orthoptera, can we?
18790Well, well, what are we to do?
18790What are its legs fastened to?
18790What are they?
18790What are they?
18790What do we call the young of insects, little Nell?
18790What do you suppose is in it?
18790What do you suppose it is?
18790What do you think about catching it in your fingers, Ned?
18790What do you think he caught?
18790What does that mean?
18790What has Nell found that pleases her so?
18790What has she found, John?
18790What have you been doing?
18790What have you discovered, Ned?
18790What is John doing?
18790What is fastened to the middle segment?
18790What is it?
18790What is that you are saying, Ned?
18790What is that you say, Richard?
18790What is that you say?
18790What is that, Amy?
18790What is that, Amy?
18790What is that, Charlie?
18790What is that, John?
18790What is that, John?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, May?
18790What is that, Mollie?
18790What is that, Mollie?
18790What is that, Ned?
18790What is that, Ned?
18790What is the matter?
18790What makes them smell so?
18790What makes you think so, John?
18790What other insect lays its eggs in little bandboxes?
18790What would be the use of seeing an insect if it could not fly fast enough to catch it?
18790What, Amy, you think John ought to be ashamed of himself to go about shooting birds, and we ought to be ashamed of ourselves to talk so about it?
18790What, Charlie?
18790What, John, you have heard that the aphids give out honey dew from two little horns near the tip of the abdomen?
18790What, John?
18790What, John?
18790What, John?
18790What, May, you always thought that white stuff was a plant growth, like mould?
18790What, May?
18790What, May?
18790What, May?
18790What, May?
18790What, May?
18790What, Nell, you never heard of a sick bug?
18790What?
18790What?
18790Where do you suppose they lay their eggs?
18790Which side of the leaf does the aphid prefer?
18790Who can be living down there at the bottom of the funnel?
18790Who can guess why?
18790Who remembers what the young of insects that undergo an incomplete metamorphosis are sometimes called?
18790Who would imagine, seeing it thus for the first time, that it was a living creature?
18790Why did you use soap suds?
18790Why do I call it that?
18790Why do you all laugh?
18790Why do you suppose he likes to sing so well in the night?
18790Why do you suppose it has such jaws?
18790Why do you suppose the coxa and trochanter are so small?
18790Why does n''t it fly in a straight line?
18790Why is Ned laughing?
18790Why not pull it out, instead of breaking its house to pieces?
18790Why, May, what have they ever done to you?
18790Why, May, what is the matter?
18790Will you let me tell you where they came from?
18790You are never going South, then?
18790You belong to an Audubon Society for the protection of the birds?
18790You ca n''t remember such hard words?
18790You did not see any spines?
18790You do n''t care anything about their heads?
18790You do n''t care how many legs they have?
18790You do n''t like its old molasses on your finger?
18790You do n''t want to know anything about cockroaches?
18790You do not know what a segment is?
18790You do not know what"adult"means?
18790You do not think it is pretty?
18790You do wish the frogs would stop spitting on the grass?
18790You have caught a locust that has no wings at all?
18790You have found a large one lying on the ground?
18790You have learned more interesting things about birds in the Audubon Society than you ever knew in your life before?
18790You have one of John''s birds right here in your school- bag?
18790You know a water boatman that swims on its back?
18790You know how insects breathe do you not?
18790You love to go bird hunting?
18790You never saw a dragon fly dig a hole, or run, or even walk, did you?
18790You remember the tropical walking sticks that have queer leaf- like wings, do you not?
18790You say the ground below the alder bush was all sticky and black, John?
18790You should think all the plants would soon be gone, so many insects eat them?
18790You surely remember the longlegged, dark colored fellows that straddle about on top of the water, in ponds or in still pools in streams?
18790You think cicada has a very broad back, Nell?
18790You thought insects had six legs, and this has only four?
18790You too, know there are crickets, little Nell?
18790You want to know about the mouth parts of the grasshopper?
18790You wish they could n''t walk?
18790You would n''t spread them out for anything?
18790You''ve a good mind to scream and run as it is?
18790You_ all_ do?
18790Your grasshopper has a long sword at the end of its body?
18790[ Illustration] Do you know the meaning of his heavily ribbed wing covers?
18790[ Illustration] Do you not remember how small the hind wings are?
18790[ Illustration] How do I know that?
18790[ Illustration] How do they get about, John?
18790[ Illustration] How would you like to do it?
18790[ Illustration] It must indeed have been a task; what did you wash them off with?
18790[ Illustration] See, it separates into two-- what?
18790[ Illustration] THE FUNNY BACK- SWIMMERS What, John?
18790[ Illustration] THE GRASSHOPPER TRIBES Do n''t you often wonder where they come from?
18790[ Illustration] What do you suppose the little pad between the claws is for?
18790[ Illustration] What do you suppose the two little sharp spines at the end of the tibia are for?
18790[ Illustration] What have you found now, John?
18790[ Illustration] Why does it zigzag so?
18790[ Illustration] Why should it want to sew up people''s ears, anyway?
18790[ Illustration] Would you believe that this tiny insect has destroyed millions of dollars''worth of grain in the United States?
18790[ Illustration] Would you not like to know the name of these curious little foot pads?
18790[ Illustration] You remember how they are?
18790and has it wings?
18790and why are they called May flies?"
18790did you see that?
18790or a monster?
18790the walking sticks have no wings?
18790turkeys are not birds, you think?
18790you should think they could be killed out?
47601In Anacardio Americes,(_ Linn._) an recte?
47601& c._( SUBGENUS: Cardiophorus,_ Eschsch._?)
47601( SUBGENUS:----?)
47601([ female]?)
47601*---- Amazonus?
47601----( Acontia?)
47601----( Acontia?)
47601----( Blaberus) gigantea?
47601----( Blaberus) gigantea?
47601----( Monochamus) dentator?
47601----( Monochamus) dentator?
47601----( Thestias) Pyrene?
47601----( Thestias) Pyrene?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
47601----?
476011.?
476011.?
476011.?
476011.?
476011.?
476012.?
47601567.?
47601778?
47601ARCTIA?
47601ARCTIA?
47601ARCTIA?
47601America?
47601B.?
47601BIBLIS ARIADNE?
47601Baridius?
47601Baridius?
47601Biblis Ariadne?
47601Biblis Ariadne?
47601Blatta( Polyphaga) Ægyptiaca?
47601Blatta( Polyphaga) Ægyptiaca?
47601But who can foresee disappointments, or avoid their effects?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CALLIMORPHA?
47601CERBUS?
47601CERBUS?
47601CERBUS?
47601Calandra serrirostris,[ female]?
47601Calandra serrirostris,[ female]?
47601Callimorpha,_ Latr._?
47601Chasmodia?
47601Chasmodia?
47601Cælioxys?
47601Cælioxys?
47601ELATER( CARDIOPHORUS?)
47601ELATER( CARDIOPHORUS?)
47601Edessa cervus?
47601Erebus crepuscularis?
47601Erebus crepuscularis?
47601FAMILY: Lycænidæ?
47601FAMILY: Lycænidæ?
47601FAMILY: Lycænidæ?
47601FAMILY: Lycænidæ?
47601FLATA---- PUPA?
47601Flata----?
47601Flata----?
47601Formica barbara?
47601G. H.?
47601GEOMETRA,_ Steph._( SUBGENUS: Pæcilophasia?
47601GNOPHRIA?
47601GNOPHRIA?
47601GNOPHRIA?
47601Gastropacha?
47601Gastropacha?
47601Glaucopis?
47601Glaucopis?
47601Gnophria?
47601Gnophria?
47601God._ BIBLIS ARIADNE?
47601HABITAT: Drury( incorrectly?)
47601HABITAT: Sierra Leone(_ Drury_, correctly?).
47601HEILIPUS?
47601HEILIPUS?
47601Heilipus?
47601Heilipus?
47601Hipporhinus?
47601Hipporhinus?
47601Hydrocampa?
47601Hydrocampa?
47601LITHOSIA?
47601LITHOSIA?
47601LITHOSIA?
47601Lampyris Savignii?
47601Limacodes?
47601Limacodes?
47601Liparis?
47601Liparis?
47601Lithosia?
47601Lithosia?
47601NOCTUA,_ Auct._ SUBGENUS----?
47601NOCTUA,_ Auct._( SUBGENUS:----?)
47601NOCTUA?
47601NOCTUA?
47601NOCTUA?
47601Odonestis?
47601Odonestis?
47601PUPA?
47601Papilio H. Zetes?
47601Papilio Lysander?
47601Petasia?
47601Petasia?
47601Prepodes?
47601Prepodes?
47601SECTION: Crepuscularia?
47601SECTION:----?
47601Scolia flavifrons?
47601Scolia flavifrons?
47601Sphex lobata?
47601[ Illustration] FLATA----?
47601_ Auct._( SUBGENUS:----?)
47601_ Cramer?__ tab._ 115.
47601_ Family_: EVANIIDÆ?
47601_ Germar._ HEILIPUS?
47601_ No._ 2?
47601_ No._ 74.?
47601_ Section_:----?
47601_ Section_:----?
47601_ f._ 1.?
47601_ f._ 13.?
47601_ fig._ 28.?
47601_ p._ 235.?
47601_ p._ 383.?
47601vel sexus alter?
47601{ 32}CALLIMORPHA?
47601{ 41}CALLIMORPHA?
47601{ 6}PLATE V.[ Illustration] CALLIMORPHA?
47601ÆGERIA,_ Fabr._?
47601ÆGERIA?
47601ÆGERIA?
47601Ægeria?
47601Ægeria?
3421( provisions, Spiders?).
3421), nimbly deposit her eggs on the Osmia''s harvest at the moment when the Bee is going indoors?
3421), the favourite prey, be lacking, must the Pelopaeus therefore give up foraging?
3421After such pains, what foe could visit the dwelling?
3421And by whom, pray?
3421And then?
3421And what does the Halictus mother do in this disaster?
3421And what is that progress by units to us?
3421And what of the sense of smell, distinguishing the dead from the living?
3421And what reason can we allege for these innumerable clusters?
3421And why were they not fertilized?
3421And, if there were, O master, what would they teach us?
3421Are not we ourselves, when the weather is about to alter, subject to subtle impressions, to sensations which we are unable to explain?
3421Are the habits of an insect capable of modification?
3421Are they alkaline or acid?
3421Are they inclined to do their work among themselves rather than in the company of strangers?
3421Are they then machines?
3421Are things the same in animal industry?
3421At first sight, this latter detail hardly deserves attention: is it not right to fill the pot before we put a lid on?
3421Bearing this point in mind, would it be possible for me, by manoeuvring, to obtain an inversion of this order and make the laying begin with males?
3421But does the hatching, by which I mean the emergence from the cocoon, take place in the same order?
3421But does this rule express the whole truth?
3421But is it correct?
3421But is this really how things happen?
3421But is this what we want to know?
3421But what will the other do with its waste matter, cooped up as it is in a tiny cell stuffed full of provisions?
3421But, should the time- honoured lichen be lacking, will the bird refrain from building its nest?
3421By what aberration of nomenclature was the name of Lithurgus, a worker in stone, given to insects which work solely in wood?
3421Can it be by sense of smell?
3421Can she have no other establishments?
3421Can the Bee''s poison reduce the prey to the condition required by the predatory Wasp?
3421Can the shells of the Anthidia be air- proof, owing to some modification that escapes me?
3421Can there really be an act of measuring?
3421Can this mustering of the Halicti be due to a wish to resume the old intercourse with their friends and relations?
3421Can we admit the presence of other wheels in the machinery for the new pattern, so different in shape and size?
3421Can we discover the reason?
3421Come, be honest: could he?
3421Could one who knew nothing of the Sparrow but her nest under the eaves suspect the ball- shaped nest at the top of a tree?
3421Did I say passed over their bodies?
3421Do not the two sexes both call for the assistance of the fertilizing element?
3421Do the natives of the same burrow, of the same hamlet, recognize one another?
3421Do they know what they are doing?
3421Do they prove that the Osmia is a geometrician, employing a strict measure based on the length of her body?
3421Do we find a similar organ in the other Hymenoptera, whether honey- gatherers or hunters?
3421Do you know the Halicti?
3421Does each species of Megachile keep to a single plant, or has it a definite botanical domain wherein to exercise its liberty of choice?
3421Does it know only one definite plant, its special province?
3421Does not the geologist make the erstwhile carcases live anew in our minds in the light of the world as we see it?
3421Does she know how to make use of houses which she has not tunnelled herself?
3421Does she nevertheless end by descending to the quiet of the floor below?
3421Does she penetrate to the cells and lay her eggs there in the mother''s absence?
3421Does she use the old buildings or does she abandon them for good?
3421Does the Osmia go outside, to gather on the ground the rubbish which she flung out when boring the cylinder?
3421Does the function create the organ, or the organ the function?
3421Does the insect collect resin impaired by the weather, soiled by the sanies of rotten wood?
3421Does the insect in its turn receive a lasting impression of its earliest visions?
3421Does the insect know beforehand the sex of the egg which it is about to lay?
3421Earth washed in by the rain?
3421For what reason?
3421Has it pleasant memories of its first surroundings?
3421Has personal experience not fully convinced us that the mere examination of the insect can tell us nothing about its particular industry?
3421Has she any general survivors?
3421Has she quite done, this time?
3421Has she really an object?
3421Has the jade a name?
3421Have they, like ourselves, a special affection for the place which saw their birth?
3421Have we eyes to see with, or do we see because we have eyes?
3421Have we here a taste that is exclusive?
3421Have we not, for instance, seen the name of Lithurgus, or stone- worker, given to a Bee who works in wood and nothing but wood?
3421How are they prescribed for the insect, this one rather than that?
3421How can this slight difference in age affect the total evolution, which lasts a year?
3421How did the Hymenopteron master the terrible prey?
3421How did the work of man''s pruning- knife bring about the abandonment of the natural lodging?
3421How has this change been brought about?
3421How is she apprised that the cocoon, which has undergone no outward change, contains a dead and not a live grub?
3421How many Halicti are there in this Babylon?
3421How shall it be given its correct dimensions without a pattern?
3421How shall it decide?
3421How shall the insect cope with such grave circumstances?
3421How shall we distinguish one from the other?
3421How shall we recognize them?
3421How was the spiral staircase of the Snail- shell replaced by the cylindrical gallery of the reed?
3421If the Bee at the bottom of the shaft wants to leave her lodging, will she spare those who bar her road?
3421If, by the mere flexion inherent in her structure, the Leaf- cutter succeeds in cutting out ovals, how does she succeed in cutting out rounds?
3421In her anxiety to get out, how will she set about her release?
3421In this string of cocoons, which is the oldest, which the youngest?
3421Is it an effect of pressure, of hygrometry, of electrical conditions, of properties that escape our coarser physical attunement?
3421Is it inhabited by the Resin- bee or not?
3421Is it to attack the partition on the right or that on the left?
3421Is not the whole problem subordinate to a condition that can not be translated into cyphers?
3421Is the Lamb when it first grips the teat a free and conscious agent, capable of improvement in its difficult art of taking nourishment?
3421Is the insect as highly gifted?
3421Is the insect conscious of what it does?
3421Is the mother absolutely powerless to make a change in this arrangement, should circumstances require it?
3421Is the organ really absent?
3421Is there not at least a measuring adapted to each sex?
3421Is there nothing beyond a laying in two series?
3421May we, in this predicament, have recourse to the general structure of the insect, although this is not distinctive enough to be of much use to us?
3421Might not this intercourse tend to cheer them and encourage them to patience?
3421Must we take it that the two sorts of Bees are not equally sensitive to the influences of gravity?
3421Now what would happen if the Bee, so scrupulous in matters of cleanliness, were to find a pupa in the cell which she is sweeping?
3421Now, how are the sexes distributed in those layings which are necessarily broken up between one old nest and another?
3421Of what does this influence consist?
3421Of what use are its industrial variations?
3421Or has it, for employment in its manufactures, a varied flora, in which its discernment exercises a free choice?
3421Or was there want of skill on my part?
3421Remnants of the putrefied Snail?
3421Shall I be able to speak to you again?
3421Shall I persuade them one day?
3421Shall we ever obtain a satisfactory answer to the question?
3421Shall we find an answer to the question in the varnish with which the silken fabric is impregnated?
3421Shall you be safe from the Anthrax''sucker later on?
3421Supposing that they survive when the business of the household is finished, to whom will the office of overseer fall?
3421That is perfectly true; but are there any alterations?
3421That is the mechanism in the lump; but what of the artistry?
3421The explanation?
3421Then what explanation shall I give of the wonderful facts which I have set forth?
3421Then what is my explanation of the two facts?
3421Then what was the object of the Leaf- cutter''s ridiculous pile?
3421Then where is the answer to the riddle of the world?
3421Then why should they escape the common rule, which requires that every living creature, male as well as female, should come from a fertilized ovule?
3421To go no further, have we not just seen different artisans collecting and using pitch, some with spoons, others with rakes, others again with pincers?
3421To whose share will the maternal dwelling fall?
3421Was it terror on her part?
3421We possess implements wherewith to pierce the walls; but where are we to strike to reach the final outlet and to reach it with the least delay?
3421Well, have these life- saving experiments, with their immense importance to the race, become general by hereditary bequest?
3421Well, how can this multitude of varied instincts teach us anything about gradual transformation?
3421Well, if that just and mighty one held the earth under his thumb, would he hesitate whether he ought to crush it?
3421Well, is the powerful Carpenter, all unheeding of fatigue, able to take advantage of such fortunate occasions?
3421Well, which of the survivors, all equally entitled to the succession, will inherit the house?
3421What an expenditure of ardent labour, of delicate cares, of wise precautions, to arrive at... what?
3421What are the conditions brought into play to produce a result apparently so contrary to the laws of nature?
3421What are we to conclude from all these experiments?
3421What artifice can we then employ to provoke this second permutation?
3421What can this polisher be?
3421What clearer proof can we hope to find of the unconsciousness of the animal stimulated by instinct?
3421What do they gain by their mustering?
3421What does it contain?
3421What does she pick up?
3421What goes on inside these neophytes as they cross the threshold of the burrow for the first time?
3421What has arithmetic to do with the case?
3421What has become of them?
3421What has malachurus, calling attention to the softness of the rump, to do in this connection?
3421What is the puny idler there for?
3421What is the use of that hole, left quite open or, at most, closed at the bottom with a feeble grating of silk?
3421What is the use of this point which the larva leaves bare instead of inlaying it like the rest of the shell?
3421What is to be done with the rest of the tunnel?
3421What mental pattern guides her scissors?
3421What model has the Megachile when cutting her neat ellipses out of the delicate material for her wallets, the robinia- leaves?
3421What picture, what recollection has she of the pot to be covered?
3421What reasons induced him to give up the spherical edifice?
3421What stimulus does the insect obey when it employs the reserve powers that slumber in its race?
3421What system of measurement tells her the dimensions?
3421What the Bee of the brambles does can not her kinswomen of the reeds do too?
3421What then is the reason of these thousand industries?
3421What was her object, I ask again, when she persisted in obstinately piling up her wafers?
3421What was the new victim submitted to the butcher''s knife?
3421What will guide the insect in its gleaning?
3421What will happen under these several conditions?
3421What will happen?
3421What will it yield, a male or a female?
3421What will the theorists''levers lift with this fulcrum?
3421What will they do in the presence of such a find?
3421What would happen if a parasite were surprised at her work by the Bee?
3421When it works with vegetable matter, is it exclusive in its tastes?
3421When kneading it, does it mix some dark ingredient with it?
3421When light is so easy to obtain, why go in search of scientific obscurity?
3421When the cocoon that blocks the way contains a dead instead of a live grub, will the result be the same?
3421When the hen sits upon her eggs, is the oldest always the first to hatch?
3421When the mother, the original genitrix, has been able once to dispense with a coadjutor, why does she need one later?
3421Whence are these materials obtained?
3421Whence, I ask, comes this general preference for the cylinder, never used hitherto?
3421Where again did the Silvery Megachile, for whom I created an exotic shrubbery, make the acquaintance of the lopezia, which comes from Mexico?
3421Where will the others take up their quarters?
3421Which is its mole- hill among the many others near, all similar in appearance?
3421Which of the four supplies the mastic?
3421Who are these vagabonds?
3421Who knows?
3421Who will ever know?
3421Who would dare put him to such a test?
3421Who would dare to indulge in any such theories?
3421Who would venture to suggest it in the case of the Bee grappling with her transcendental problem?
3421Why all these different trades, to say nothing of the others?
3421Why do they not hatch like the other eggs, which outwardly they resemble in every respect?
3421Why does he become necessary now?
3421Why does she not take the intruders by the skin of the abdomen?
3421Why should it not answer for its Cotton- bees and, in the same way, with the Leaf- cutters?
3421Why should she put herself out?
3421Why stir up more of them?
3421Why talk of acid or alkaline reactions, which prove nothing, when it is so simple to have recourse to facts, which prove everything?
3421Why this fatuous clemency?
3421Will it forgo the delight of hatching its brood because it has not the wherewithal to settle its family in the orthodox fashion?
3421With what does she build when there are no geranium- flowers handy?
3421Would she think differently if the lilac- bush were not there?
3421Yes, but are you quite sure that things happened as you say?
43341And yet is not pain the warning which teaches us to foresee and to anticipate, and by every means in our power to ward off our dissolution? 43341 Is it not he,"said Linnà ©,"who passes?
43341Knowest thou not that love transforms Into itself whate''er it loves?
43341Shall I be bird or quadruped?
43341Shall I be fish or mammal?
43341Thou wouldst know wherefore I dream? 43341 We must start,"says the father;"do you not hear the lark?"
43341What nightingale could do as much?
43341What remained to me? 43341 ***** Ah, if she be a machine, what am I myself? 43341 ***** But rifle practice? 43341 84).--Is it wrong for man, in his reveries, to beguile himself into a belief that he will one day be more than man, to attribute to himself wings? 43341 A gull? 43341 A nurse? 43341 A soul? 43341 Age came, and with it anxieties: family anxieties? 43341 Ah, why dost thou not remain? 43341 Am I saying that we have had no other assistance? 43341 An eagle? 43341 An education so delicate, so varied, so complex, is it that of a machine, of a brute reduced to instinct? 43341 And for whom? 43341 And how shall I defend myself? 43341 And not in any beaten route, but at the same time in every direction: for where is not the bird''s track? 43341 And the ibis? 43341 And what barrier? 43341 And what do I say? 43341 And why have you absented yourself so long from home?
43341And why not?
43341And why?
43341And why?
43341And yet, what shall he do?
43341As for the courage with which one is tempted to endow them, what occasion have they to display it, since they encounter none but inferior enemies?
43341Ask an Egyptian fellah why he allows himself to be infested and deafened by birds?
43341At this hallowed moment, ought not we, too, to reflect and ask ourselves what it is this mother''s heart contains?
43341But how protect them?
43341But how should I set him free?
43341But the first freshness of the heart?
43341But the lonely bird, which has neither the support of numbers nor of strength, what will become of him?
43341But what is instinct?
43341But what is the fact?
43341But what is this?
43341But what means the cow?
43341But what would become of_ them_?
43341But where have you been?
43341But who among us, or among more serious beings, in such a case, does not do the same?
43341But who can die without having one day unlocked his heart?
43341But, alas, was pain so useful as to render it necessary to prodigalize it?
43341Can they love as deeply as we love?
43341Death?
43341Do the fortunate suitor and his fair one, think you, air their idle loves wandering through the forests?
43341Does climate save us?
43341Does the mocking frog defy thee from the bottom of the waters?"
43341Does this mean that death will ever diminish?
43341Dreams or realities?
43341Enemies?
43341Est- ce bien ce qu''elle chante encore?
43341For on what grounds?
43341Gay?
43341Give them a ship of the line-- what do I say?
43341Hast thou even eyes to see them?
43341Hast thou wings to pursue them?
43341Hath thy prey failed thee?
43341Have the too subtle fish deceived thine eyes?
43341He comes into the world clothed; what need has he of a nest?
43341He said, in effect:--"King of song, what dost thou here?
43341He said, obviously:"What matters it to one who is no more?"
43341He strikes and slays: can he seize?
43341How can he have slain without horror the walrus and the seal, which in so many points are like himself?
43341How is it able to rise at such enormous distances from all land?
43341How shall I express the transports which this discovery awakened?
43341How shall we doubt it, when we see the most timid suddenly become heroic in defence of their young and their family?
43341How shall we reach, how discover it?
43341How shall you oppose them when they make war upon you in legions?
43341How wilt thou multiply thyself?
43341How, then, will it be with the sage stork, the shrewd crow, the intelligent swallow?
43341If she has not a soul, who will answer to me for the human soul?
43341If, however, such a cadaverous dissolution really prevailed there, would it not render the waters fatal to the fish, instead of nourishing them?
43341Indestructible vigour of the climates of the West?
43341Is he happy?
43341Is it a bird?
43341Is it a spirit?
43341Is it more than a simple mask of life''s transformations?
43341Is it the cold?
43341Is it to exercise her power, her unwearying wing, without going too far from her nest?
43341Is it to pursue her prey, the gnat which dances and floats in the air?
43341Is she immovable, this earth?
43341Is she not holy?
43341Is there not here an idea of property, and of the sacred lights of labour?
43341Is there then no remedy?
43341Melancholy?
43341Must not the child grow skilful in killing, that, from murder to murder, he may at last arrive at the surpassing feat of killing the flying swallow?
43341Or rather, in their leafless declivities shall we not discover the fountains which may renew their life?
43341Shall I confess it, however?
43341Shall I dare to tell men of science my inmost thought?
43341Shall I have wherewithal to nourish my little ones this evening?"
43341Shall I not bring you some more, mamma?''
43341Shall we dare to say that this ingenious architect, this tender mother, has_ a soul_?
43341Shall we say_ above_, or_ below_ the works of man?
43341Study has commenced; we apply ourselves with eagerness to our books; but what now?
43341The eagle or the condor?
43341The second( but miraculous?
43341These organs of singing, which are so largely developed in the swan, were they always useless?
43341Thou, what art thou, friend?
43341To Germany?
43341To this all- absorbing abyss of devouring death, of famished life, what does God oppose to re- assure us?
43341To what thereafter shall we trust?
43341To which the bird will reply, like Columbus,"Why did you not discover it?"
43341Upon what?
43341Was he starving?
43341What are these?
43341What are they but air, sea, the elements, which have taken wing and fly?
43341What are they?
43341What avail their fictions before the burning centre where, by atoms or by seconds, life dies, is born, blazes, scintillates?
43341What became of the poor little nest, exposed on the ground, with no other shelter than the periwinkle''s leaf?
43341What can the mother effect in the mobile existence of the fish?
43341What cloud, what watery deep is inaccessible to ye?
43341What do I say?
43341What does it come in quest of, if not of a wreck?
43341What gift?
43341What gives them confidence for such enterprises?
43341What had his club availed against the plesiosaurus?
43341What has their heroism profited the Indians of North America?
43341What heart could resist all these toils?
43341What impels_ them_?
43341What in the insect world, where she generally dies as soon as she has produced the egg?
43341What is it, and what should issue from it?
43341What is required for its protection?
43341What is the chronology, the gradual growth of it?
43341What matters that?
43341What new acquisition?
43341What power would be sufficient?
43341What progress has been made in the last two thousand years?
43341What shall be its defence?
43341What then?
43341What will this avail if the enormous jaw of the serpent suddenly appears, or the horrible eye of the bird of death, immeasurably enlarged by fear?
43341What will you say to the wounded elephant spoken of by Fouchà © d''Obsonville?
43341What wills it?
43341What wilt thou do, poor man?
43341What would be the fate of a man given up to the insects?
43341What would ye have done, ye feeble mortals, the latest- born of the world?
43341What, indeed, is to there hurry him onward?
43341When will they arrive thither?
43341Whence does it come?
43341Where shall they find securities, and how assure a commencement of public order?
43341Where shall we seek repose or moral invigoration, if not of nature?
43341Which is the better means?
43341Who am I here?
43341Who can refuse in this to acknowledge a soul?
43341Who could sustain the thunderous flash without reeling and without terror?
43341Who knows all its paths?
43341Who knows but that man has only seen the threshold of the prodigious world of the dead?
43341Who measures it with his glance and his wing?
43341Who more than thou is raised above the mean fatalities of existence?
43341Who surveys and descries all earth?
43341Who will brave them?
43341Who would have met, face to face, the horrible leviathan?
43341Who would not accept this artist, this laborious purveyor for domestic wants, this intrepid defender?
43341Who would not believe herself able to accomplish in safety, behind the generous rampart of this devoted champion, the delicate mystery of maternity?
43341Who would not believe that the ill- fated bird must share the melancholy of her sad neighbour, the hare?
43341Who, like her, can change in the very moment of springing, and turn abruptly?
43341Who, then, art thou, thou who always concealest thyself, who never showest me aught but thy trenchant wings-- scythes rapid as that of Time?
43341Who?
43341Why do the swallow and so many other birds place their habitation so near to that of man?
43341Why do they make themselves our friends, mingling with our labours, and lightening them by their songs?
43341Why does it not everywhere exist, between us and our winged brothers, between man and the universal living nature?"
43341Why doth this oak live through a thousand years?
43341Why is that happy spectacle of alliance and harmony, which is the end of nature, presented only in the climates of our temperate zone?
43341Why kill the friends of Wilson?
43341Why not?
43341Why should their elder brothers repulse them beyond the pale of those laws which the universal Father harmonizes with the law of the world?
43341Why should they do better?
43341Why was the meeting held on this particular day, at this hour more than at any other?
43341Why, then, this love of murder, this extermination of the animal world?
43341Wilt thou be a man, and share in that royalty of the globe which men have won by art and toil?
43341Wilt thou sing readily for me, and, by thy puissance of love and calm, shed harmony on a heart troubled by the cruel history of men?
43341Without them what would become of those living clouds of insects which love nothing but blood?
43341Would you wish to observe two things wonderfully analogous?
43341[ 20] That song, of which all antiquity speaks, is it a fable?
43341[ Illustration] And will you not call him an artist?
43341[ Illustration] But this faculty, this rapid inhalation or expulsion of air, of swimming with a ballast variable at pleasure, whence does it proceed?
43341[ Illustration] Melodious sparks of celestial fire, whither do ye not attain?
43341[ Illustration] What real difference exists between the eagle and the vulture?
43341_ The woodpecker, as an augur._--Are the methods of observation adopted by meteorology serious and efficacious?
43341a living fruit?
43341and how?
43341and who will then prove that I am a person?
43341imaginative?)
43341impossible?
43341is it in you, ye living flowers, ye winged topazes and sapphires, that I shall find my safety?
43341what shall I do?
43341why not imitate the timorousness of those birds which in such myriads fly no further than Provence?
44377And are there many birds able to do such work, Uncle Philip?
44377And can the worm really do this, Uncle Philip? 44377 And does she really make these round pieces to fit the cell?"
44377And has the gnat really a lancet?
44377And how large are the ants, Uncle Philip?
44377And how long, Uncle Philip, did it take the ants to put another story on their house?
44377And how many eggs, Uncle Philip, will she put together in this way?
44377And is it possible, Uncle Philip, that any bird can do such work as this?
44377And that is not a good way to find out any thing, Uncle Philip?
44377And this is the way, then, Uncle Philip, to make hats: it is curious, is it not?
44377And what did she do, Uncle Philip?
44377And what do you suppose this bridge is for, Uncle Philip?
44377And what have they been bleeding us with?
44377And what is all this made of, Uncle Philip?
44377And when it is done sawing, Uncle Philip, where does it keep its saws?
44377Any bridges, Uncle Philip?
44377Are they strong, Uncle Philip? 44377 Are you tired, boys, or do you wish to hear more?"
44377But, Uncle Philip, how can you see it suck the water in?
44377But, Uncle Philip, how did the kite help him?
44377But, Uncle Philip, how do they ever manage to catch them alive? 44377 But, Uncle Philip, how does he get it up again?"
44377But, Uncle Philip, is it wrong to kill_ spiders_?
44377But, Uncle Philip, what is the piece with the ridge for?
44377But, Uncle Philip, what shall we do with the kite? 44377 But, Uncle Philip, what sort of tools do you mean?
44377But, Uncle Philip, why do the legionaries always take the young ones?
44377But, Uncle Philip, you have not said any thing about the round pieces which she cuts; how does she use them?
44377But, Uncle Philip, you said that these ants were all of one sort; how then do they know one another so as to tell which party each one belongs to? 44377 Can it be possible, Uncle Philip?"
44377Can you tell us any thing more about this fly?
44377Did you ever see what the boys call a sucker, made of a piece of soft sole leather? 44377 Do all of them that belong to the hill go out to fight, Uncle Philip?"
44377Do they bite hard, Uncle Philip?
44377Do you know what a philosopher is?
44377Do you mean, Uncle Philip, a face made of pasteboard, very frightful commonly, which you can wear over your own face?
44377Does it always use sand, Uncle Philip?
44377Does she do it quickly, Uncle Philip?
44377Have you learned them, boys?
44377He is, indeed: but, my children, what do we learn from all that I have been telling you? 44377 How do they stick together then, Uncle Philip?"
44377How does it go to work, Uncle Philip?
44377How does it hold on, Uncle Philip?
44377How is it made, Uncle Philip?
44377How is that, Uncle Philip? 44377 How large is it, Uncle Philip?"
44377How large is the hole?
44377How long did it take them to work up the lump?
44377How long were they in making it, Uncle Philip?
44377Is it smooth on the outside, Uncle Philip?
44377Is there any spark, Uncle Philip?
44377It is because you see so much of God''s knowledge in them; is it not?
44377It means, Uncle Philip, a man who loves to study about the animals and insects, does it not?
44377Now then, Uncle Philip, she will begin to make paper, will she not?
44377Now, Uncle Philip, will you tell us of the tweezers?
44377Of sheep''s wool, and the hair of other animals: is it not?
44377Oh, do tell us; what is it?
44377Then she was not working for herself?
44377Then, Uncle Philip, you think that the bird has reason?
44377There is, boys, something well worth attention; did you ever see a mask?
44377This is very strange, Uncle Philip: the hair is smooth; how can my fingers make it move so?
44377This is very wonderful: but you said something about large trenches or gutters underground; what are they, Uncle Philip?
44377Uncle Philip, do these birds all use the same things to make their nests?
44377Uncle Philip, does the pinc- pinc build its nest like a bottle, as the Cape- tit does?
44377Uncle Philip, how do the birds make the hairs lie smooth in their places?
44377Uncle Philip, how do the young bees get out when the egg is hatched? 44377 Uncle Philip, there are no ships among animals, are there?"
44377Uncle Philip, what is all this built of?
44377Uncle Philip, what is that pocket for?
44377Uncle Philip, what is the saw made of?
44377Uncle Philip, why do they call it the politician? 44377 Uncle Philip, you said that the moth pulled this hair off to cover its eggs; are they easily frozen?"
44377Very true, boys: so his feet, then, you now think, were made for spades, and not for paddles?
44377Well, Uncle Philip, will you tell us the truth about it?
44377Well, how could a kite help a man to get learning? 44377 Well, what is it?"
44377Well; and did you find any?
44377What are his spades, Uncle Philip?
44377What are these for?
44377What are they doing, Uncle Philip?
44377What are they, Uncle Philip?
44377What book is it, Uncle Philip?
44377What does it do, Uncle Philip?
44377What good pincers those are, Uncle Philip: but will you tell us one thing which we wish to know? 44377 What insect is it, Uncle Philip?"
44377What is a microscope?
44377What is it for, then, Uncle Philip?
44377What is it that he uses, then?
44377What is it, Uncle Philip? 44377 What is it, Uncle Philip?"
44377What is it, Uncle Philip?
44377What is it, boys?
44377What is it, what is it, Uncle Philip?
44377What is it?
44377What is it?
44377What is it?
44377What is propolis, Uncle Philip?
44377What is that for?
44377What sort of an ant is it?
44377What_ did_ they do, Uncle Philip?
44377Where does it get the mortar, Uncle Philip?
44377Where does it put its eggs, Uncle Philip?
44377Who sends you to school, boys, and pays your teachers for instructing you?
44377Why did she wish her house not to be found out, Uncle Philip?
44377Why do they work in the rain, Uncle Philip?
44377Why so, Uncle Philip?
44377Why, Uncle Philip, are you sure he got them at all?
44377Why, Uncle Philip, is the air heavy?
44377Why, how high are they?
44377Why, what is the matter?
44377Why, what tool is it that you can not find among them, Uncle Philip? 44377 Why, with a lancet, to be sure; what should a doctor use but a lancet to let blood?"
44377Will you have the goodness, Uncle Philip, to tell us what it meant?
44377Yes, I see, boys: do you think that men had the first spades in the world?
44377Yes, Uncle Philip; a philosopher is the same thing with a very wise man, is it not?
44377Ah, we like that: pray let us hear of them; what are they?"
44377And now what will you say when I tell you that a poor little spider did all these things long before man did?"
44377And now, boys, what do you think about the use of these little pockets?"
44377And now, such of you as will, may keep a look- out for curious things, while the rest of us will talk together.--Boys, do any of you know Tom Smith?"
44377And there is your poor little ugly insect that you thought it right to kill, the spider; did you know that the spider was a sailor, too?"
44377And what of that?
44377At one of these meetings, one of them asked the others,''_ Why_ a fish weighed more_ in_ the water than he did_ out_ of it?''
44377But before you go, tell me-- can any of you inform me what the Bible says about the ant?"
44377But how often do you suppose that you have seen a bat?"
44377But if the ant knew how to think as a man does, do you suppose it would ever have made the mistake?
44377But there is a sweet little bird, boys, quite common in our own country, which makes felt: would you like to hear of it?"
44377But what has that to do with the story about the spider?"
44377But what kind of work is it they do?"
44377But what will you say about gnats, when I tell you that they have a tool to work with, and a very perfect one, too?"
44377But where do they get the tools?"
44377But will not the hinge wear out at last?"
44377But you have said nothing yet about_ needles_; how do these little creatures sew?"
44377But-- but--""But what, boys?"
44377Can they be comfortable without working?"
44377Can you tell me now why some people call the fly- catcher a politician?"
44377Can you tell us any thing more about this animal, Uncle Philip?"
44377Did he read the old newspapers it was made of?
44377Did you ever hear of him?"
44377Did you ever see a spy- glass?
44377Did you ever take notice of a bat?"
44377Did you find out any thing about them?"
44377Did you not?"
44377Do not you think there was good sense in that?"
44377Do you hear that noise?"
44377Do you know how a hat is made?"
44377Do you know of any of them that can bore holes?"
44377Do you know what a cylinder is?"
44377Do you not see how some of these little fellows are rolling themselves over in the inside of the flowers, so that the yellow dust is sticking to them?
44377Do you remember my telling you of a gentleman who watched the little cloak- maker to see how he made his garment?
44377Do you remember what insect that was?"
44377Do you think he deserves to be killed for doing it?"
44377Do you think the reasons are good ones?"
44377Do you think you understand me?"
44377Have you any lessons to say when you go into school on Monday?"
44377I am very glad of it; for as this is a leisure day, we shall have time enough to talk: but what is that you have there?
44377I expect he was a naturalist; was he, Uncle Philip?"
44377I have read a story about this very thing: would you like to hear it?"
44377If you had not had them, you could not have taken hold of the splinter with your fingers; and what would you have done then?"
44377Is that right?"
44377Is the point of a needle coarse?
44377Is there any saw among these little fellows?"
44377Is this the way a ship goes, Uncle Philip?"
44377Now, boys, before this country was settled by people from Europe, where do you suppose the starling got silk and thread for his nest?"
44377Pray tell us of it, will you?"
44377That is fair, is it not?"
44377The Bible does not say a boy shall not play the truant, does it?"
44377The New Testament does not say any thing about your going to school; does it?"
44377Uncle Philip?"
44377Uncle Philip?"
44377Uncle Philip?"
44377Uncle Philip?"
44377Was anybody with him?"
44377What animal is it that has a spade?"
44377What animal is it?"
44377What bird is it?"
44377What did it mean?"
44377What do they fight about?"
44377What do you think now?"
44377What does it steal?"
44377What does that mean?"
44377What is a politician?"
44377What is the trade that you think you have discovered?"
44377Whenever any one gives you a reason for a thing, just ask yourselves,''Is this a good reason?''"
44377Where do you wish to go?"
44377Who made these little creatures with such curious skill, and taught them to work so well?
44377Will not the water wash the mortar all away?"
44377Will you look at nothing but what is handsome?
44377You know what that word means, do you not?"
44377You know where a great many of our duties are very plainly written down for us; do you not?"
44377[ Illustration]"Then, Uncle Philip, the spider does not spin its thread all at once?"
44377[ Illustration]"Uncle Philip, is there any thing else curious about this insect?"
44377how do you do?
44377shall we draw it down?"
44377what are their slaves, and where did they get them?"
44377what is that for?"
44377who ever heard of covering a thing up in hair or wool to keep off heat?"
3754Well, then?
3754And how does this same mill also turn out plain threads, wrought first into a framework and then into muslin and satin?
3754And how often?
3754And how?
3754And these others, so eager for plunder?
3754And these, clad in black velvet?
3754And these, noisily buzzing with a sudden flight?
3754And, first of all, what sites do these builders select for their homes?
3754Apart from sight and smell, what remains to guide them in returning to the nest?
3754Are not those who accept them as reliable testimony a little over- simple?
3754Bearing this point in mind, would it be possible for me, by manoeuvring, to obtain an inversion of this order and make the laying begin with males?
3754Besides, is it really a corpse that the Epeira wants, she who feeds on blood much more than on flesh?
3754Besides, what good would those short- sighted lenses be in the absence of light, in black darkness?
3754Busy with what?
3754But are these two little stories really true?
3754But does this rule express the whole truth?
3754But how populate the cage?
3754But is that all?
3754But what did the caterpillar eat before our cabbages supplied him with copious provender?
3754But what manner of prey?
3754But, if the beak were entirely closed, where would the eggs be laid then?
3754Can he be unscathed, in spite of the sort of kiss which I saw given to him just now?
3754Can he turn it on or down or put it out as he pleases?
3754Can it be a manifestation of gaiety, when the wanton sun warms their full paunches?
3754Can it be done?
3754Can it be their method of intimidating an always possible aggressor?
3754Can it smell?
3754Can one even be sure that the one to disappear returns and forms one of the band?
3754Can our friend at least tell us how"the Little Belly"or"the Incomplete"gets into the caterpillar?
3754Can she be apprised of the depth of the chasm by the comparative faintness of the offensive odours that arise from it?
3754Can the animal be deceived by the soft contact of the cork?
3754Can the family of the White Butterfly be settled on other Crucifers than the cabbage?
3754Can the nature of the floor make any difference to her?
3754Can the sense of smell measure the distance and judge whether it be acceptable or not?
3754Can the structure, perchance, be obeying other rules than those of environment?
3754Can the theory of chances play a part in the hazy problem?
3754Can they?
3754Can things sometimes be the same in the open fields, where I play none of my tricks?
3754Could they not, like other caterpillars, walk about without these costly preparations?
3754Did I guess aright when I judged that it was a fatty substance that preserved the Epeira from the snares of her sticky Catherine- wheel?
3754Did he intend to allude to the insignificance of the abdomen?
3754Did the Necrophori lay it bare with the express intention of causing it to fall?
3754Do they involve the consequences deduced from them?
3754Do you give it up?
3754Do you or do you not enjoy gleams of reason?
3754Does he choose the most practicable places?
3754Does he in point of fact explore the country?
3754Does it compare?
3754Does it reason?
3754Does not this placid quiescence point to the absence of a sense of smell?
3754Does she fear lest her worms should be bruised by an excessive drop?
3754Does she give up hunting during this period of bright sunlight?
3754Does she invite them to the banquet when she has secured a prize?
3754Does the Epeira know the secret of fatty substances?
3754Does the Lycosa at least feed the younglings who, for seven months, swarm upon her back?
3754Does the Spider kill the patient with a view to avoiding unseasonable jerks, protests so disagreeable at dinner- time?
3754Does the insect which stores up provisions proportionate to the needs of the egg which it is about to lay know beforehand the sex of that egg?
3754Does the stench of the meat not spread, coming from that depth?
3754Does this mean that the tenderest and most succulent morsels are chosen?
3754Eager to arrive, do they drop from the top of the wall?
3754Every instinctive action no doubt has its motive; but does the animal in the first place judge whether the action is opportune?
3754For whom or for what will our squibs be spluttering a few years hence?
3754From what height will the Flesh- fly dare to let her children drop?
3754Had my captives invited him?
3754Has he an opaque screen which is drawn over the flame at will, or is that flame always left exposed?
3754Has it really perceived the mechanism of suspension?
3754Has the Glow- worm a free control of the light which he emits?
3754Has the Processional any olfactory powers or has he not?
3754Hatched inside the trunk, will the long- horned insect be able to clear itself a way of escape?
3754Have they done the trick this time?
3754Have you guessed it?
3754Have you within you the humble germ of human thought?
3754How are they to find one another afterwards and become a community again?
3754How are we to protect our gardens against it?
3754How do they know?
3754How does she lay her eggs, the origin of the loathsome maggot that battens poisonously on our provisions whether of game or butcher''s meat?
3754How does the Pieris manage to know her way about her botanical domain?
3754How is she apprised?
3754How is the silken matter moulded into a capillary tube?
3754How is this brought about?
3754How is this long period of solitude and captivity spent?
3754How is this tube filled with glue and tightly twisted?
3754How to feed them?
3754If I persuaded them to bite me, what would happen to me?
3754If nothing is logically arranged with a foreseen object, how is this clear vision of the invisible acquired?
3754If some giddy- pate allow himself to be caught, will the Spider, at the distance whereto she has retired, be unable to take advantage of the windfall?
3754If the eyes are insufficient guides, even close at hand, how will it be when the prey has to be spied from afar?
3754If the stem allows itself to be allured, why not the root?
3754In a century or two, will any one, outside the historians, give a thought to the taking of the Bastille?
3754Instead of asking the animal what its name is, let us begin by asking:"What can you do?
3754Is he advising his collaborators of what he has discovered?
3754Is he arranging matters with a view to their establishing themselves elsewhere, on propitious soil?
3754Is it a dead leaf blown along by the wind?
3754Is it a dream, or the anticipation of a remote reality?
3754Is it an animal, a fluff of wool, a cluster of small seeds fastened to one another?
3754Is it because of this dainty that the prey''s abdomen is preferred to any other morsel?
3754Is the Snail really dead?
3754Is the insect capable of doing so?
3754Is the mother absolutely powerless to make a change in this arrangement, should circumstances require it?
3754Is there nothing beyond a laying in two series?
3754Is this culinary procedure undertaken in respect of the larvae, which might be incommoded by the fur?
3754Is this manoeuvre really thought out?
3754Is this so?
3754It remembered, compared, judged, reasoned: does the drowsily digesting paunch remember?
3754Might there not be an insect science of aesthetics?
3754Might we not one day be able to benefit from this hint?
3754Now what do the youngsters do, while their mother is being eaten?
3754Of poor intellectual repute, does the Turkey deserve his name for stupidity?
3754Of what use can this singular fare be to the budding caterpillar?
3754Once more, with what do the little ones keep up their strength?
3754Or are his hesitations merely the result of the absence of a guiding thread on ground that has not yet been covered?
3754Or did they, on the contrary, dig at its base solely in order to bury that part of the mole which lay on the ground?
3754Or is it just a casual result, a mere loss of hair due to putridity?
3754Or is it not so?
3754Or is the truth even more paradoxical?
3754Shall I be able to speak of you again?
3754The sting most certainly has played its part; but where?
3754Then what are we to do?
3754Then what explanation shall I give of the wonderful facts which I have set forth?
3754Then what shall the nature of the first food be?
3754Then when will the deliverance come?
3754Then why are they there?
3754Then why does the Flesh- fly, who but now was dropping her grubs from a goodly height, refuse to let them fall from the top of a column twice as high?
3754Then with what are they sustained, during their seven months''upbringing on the mother''s back?
3754To what cause are these profound moral differences due, when the organic structure is the same?
3754To what shall we attribute the heat expended upon action, when the animal takes absolutely no nourishment?
3754We can understand the object of the feminine beacon; but of what use is all the rest of the pyrotechnic display?
3754We fall back upon a special sense to explain the Ammophila''s hunting; what can we fall back upon to account for this intuition of the future?
3754We will begin by asking:"How do you manage to lodge your germs inside the caterpillar?"
3754What are her stratagems and how can we foil them?
3754What artifice can we then employ to provoke this second permutation?
3754What bird- catcher could vie with the Garden Spider in the art of laying lime- snares?
3754What can be the nature of that singular lid whereof the Cerambyx furnishes me with the first specimen?
3754What can be the psychology of a creature possessing such a powerful digestive organism combined with such a feeble set of senses?
3754What can the caterpillars in the conservatory be doing?
3754What can the grub''s palate appreciate in this monotonous fare?
3754What could we do?
3754What did they want for their putrefaction?
3754What do they feed on?
3754What do your flanks contain?
3754What does he find before him?
3754What does it know of the outside world?
3754What does she pick up?
3754What does the Devilkin want with that monstrous pointed cap, than which no wise man of the East, no astrologer of old ever wore a more splendiferous?
3754What drop will good fortune sprinkle on my Processionaries to dissolve their circle and bring them back to the nest?
3754What exactly was in the mind of the author of the name Microgaster, which means little belly?
3754What has become of the other two, both males?
3754What have the lessons of touch and taste contributed to that rudimentary receptacle of impressions?
3754What have we learnt from him?
3754What is his manner of consuming it?
3754What is his object in thus sponging himself, in dusting and polishing himself so carefully?
3754What is lacking to complete its happiness?
3754What is the object of this circular motion?
3754What is the purpose of this turret?
3754What is the reason?
3754What is the use of all this luxury?
3754What is their home, in point of fact?
3754What is this state of things?
3754What is wanted to keep the maggots out?
3754What is your business?"
3754What name shall we give to that form of existence which, for a time, abolishes the power of movement and the sense of pain?
3754What sign denotes that one of the five who was able, in so rational a manner, to appeal for help?
3754What the Bee of the brambles does can not her kinswomen of the reeds do too?
3754What tricks can I play upon them?
3754What were they doing there, all these feverish workers?
3754What will become of these little bodies and of so many other pitiful remnants of life?
3754What will it yield, a male or a female?
3754What will the caterpillars do on this deceptive, closed path?
3754What will the latter do?
3754What will they teach me?
3754What would it be if they had to pass through a thickness of oak?
3754What would it do with sight in the murky thickness of a tree- trunk?
3754What, then, did the owner of the Frog of whom Gledditsch tells us really see?
3754When calm is restored, she resumes her attitude, ceaselessly pondering the harsh problem of life:"Shall I dine to- day, or not?"
3754Whence did it derive the motives of its actions?
3754Where sounds are lacking, of what use is the faculty of discerning them?
3754Whereof does this operation consist?
3754Whither is he going, dragging himself along, incapable of jumping, thanks to the weight of his load?
3754Who does not know it, at least by name?
3754Who has not seen it roam amid the grass, like a spark fallen from the moon at its full?
3754Who is this one?
3754Who shall decide?
3754Who would look for virtue in such a quarter?
3754Who would say?
3754Why are these little pebbles preferred to chips of lime- stone, when both materials are found in equal abundance around the nest?
3754Why can not I read what passes under his black, shiny skull, so like a drop of tar to look at?
3754Why not live on sun, seeing that, after all, we find naught but sun in the fruits which we consume?
3754Why prolong the agony of the impotent and the imbecile?
3754Why should not physical science step in as well?
3754Why this nice finish, if the builder be wholly absorbed in the solidity of her work?
3754Why this unequal supply, which gives a double portion to one larva and a single portion to another?
3754Why, indeed, did I forsake you so long?
3754Why, moreover, does this line always start in the centre of the sticky network and nowhere else?
3754Why?
3754Why?
3754Will his example find imitators?
3754Will my caterpillars show a little of his mother wit?
3754Will my strength not cheat my good intentions?
3754Will the Capricorns come out, or not?
3754Will the Spider be able to know the one that belongs to her?
3754Will the find thus suspended by the hazard of its fall remain unemployed?
3754Will the grave- digger find himself reduced to impotence by such an impediment, which must be an extremely common one?
3754Will they be accepted, if supplied by my stratagems?
3754Will they scrape at the foot of the gibbet in order to overturn it?
3754Will they succeed in leaving the enchanted circle?
3754Will they walk endlessly round and round until their strength gives out entirely?
3754Will they, after many attempts, be able to break the equilibrium of their closed circuit, which keeps them on a road without a turning?
3754With these arrangements, are we sure of warding off the Fly and her vermin?
3754Without a good dose of this quality, a mental defect in the eyes of practical folk, who would busy himself with the lesser creatures?
3754Would we behold her works?
3754my busy insects, to enable me to add yet a few seemly pages to your history?
27868Suppose it were_ that_? 27868 370 XV SUICIDE OR HYPNOSIS? 27868 And are the noises of the outside world propagated through half an inch of wood in such a way as to make differences perceptible? 27868 And which is the Mulciber, the Vulcan, the artist- engraver that engraves the covering of the egg so prettily? 27868 And why should it change, this instinct, so logical in its workings? 27868 Are not those who accept them as sound evidence just a little too simple? 27868 Are these really the larvæ that turn into the pseudochrysalids? 27868 Besides, why should he need special defensive artifices? 27868 But are these two anecdotes really true? 27868 But how to stock the cage? 27868 But in that case what exquisite subtlety must we not take for granted? 27868 But is not this the invariable conclusion to which the study of instinct always leads us? 27868 But is this influence so powerful as they say? 27868 But then why do the cells usurped by the Sitares retain not the slightest trace of the forcible entry which is indispensable? 27868 But to which of the insects shall we go first? 27868 But what am I saying? 27868 But what conditions? 27868 But what is this curious shell in which the Sitaris is invariably enclosed, a shell unexampled in the Beetle order? 27868 By what sense then can they distinguish the thorax of an Anthophora from a velvety pellet, when sight and touch are out of the question? 27868 CHAPTER XV SUICIDE OR HYPNOSIS? 27868 Can he be threatened by the birds? 27868 Can he owe his long period of inertia to the fact that he is one of the Tenebrionidæ, or Darkling Beetles? 27868 Can he turn it on or down or put it out as he pleases? 27868 Can it be need of food that drives it from the substratum and sends it to the sunlight so soon as the wing- cases have assumed their vermilion hue? 27868 Can it be sound? 27868 Can it be that my hypnotic tricks are less efficacious with small birds than with large ones? 27868 Can it be the temperature? 27868 Can it be weight? 27868 Can it smell? 27868 Can the comparative frequency of this or the other provender have brought about the formation of two trade- guilds? 27868 Can the structure, perchance, be obeying other rules than those of environment? 27868 Can these armour- wearers, so sturdy in appearance, be weaklings? 27868 Can these be the sowing of a bandit, the spawn of a Midge? 27868 Can they be as harmless as their peaceful frolics seem to proclaim? 27868 Can they? 27868 Can this be because the jewel of the pampas dispenses with the father''s collaboration? 27868 Can we even be sure that the one to disappear returns and forms one of the band? 27868 Can you be a knacker, a worker in putrid sausage- meat, like_ Phanæus Milon_? 27868 Could the Clythra, an exceptional ceramic artist, work without a base and without a guide? 27868 Could there be a similarity of habits between the two kinds of insects? 27868 Did the Necrophori lay it bare with the express purpose of making it fall? 27868 Do my Goose, my Turkey and the others resort to trickery with the object of deceiving their tormentor? 27868 Do they involve the consequences deduced from them? 27868 Do they judge their new lodging by sight? 27868 Do you or do you not enjoy gleams of reason? 27868 Does he serve an apprenticeship? 27868 Does he work badly at first, then a little better and then well? 27868 Does it compare? 27868 Does it contain the dead insect? 27868 Does it contain the grub, shrivelled by desiccation? 27868 Does it fast during the extreme heat? 27868 Does it reason? 27868 Does it work on the same principles? 27868 Does not this placid quiescence point to the absence of a sense of smell? 27868 Does the grub employ it to keep itself cool, to protect itself against the attacks of the sun? 27868 Does the perturbing problem of an end occur to its dense brain? 27868 Does the trajectory imply the minimum of work? 27868 Does the wood guide the insect, adult or larva, by its structure? 27868 Ebony, metal, the gem: have they the same origin here then? 27868 Every instinctive action no doubt has its motive; but does the animal in the first place judge whether the action is opportune? 27868 For on what are we to base our conviction when we imagine that we are stating a law? 27868 From this muddle shall we draw a conclusion which will set our minds at rest? 27868 Furthermore, have these talents developed by degrees? 27868 Had my captives invited this one? 27868 Has he an opaque screen which is drawn over the flame at will, or is that flame always left exposed? 27868 Has it a compass? 27868 Has it actually perceived the mechanism of the hanging? 27868 Has it the power to foresee an ending, an attribute which in its case would be inconvenient and useless? 27868 Has the Glow- worm a free control of the light which he emits? 27868 Has the puny creature a name? 27868 Has there been an internecine battle inside the poor wretch''s body? 27868 Has this pigmy of the family the same talents as the giant, the ravager of the oak- tree? 27868 Hatched inside the trunk, will the long- horned Beetle be able to clear itself a way of escape? 27868 Have the nomenclators catalogued it? 27868 Have they eaten one another up, leaving only the strongest to survive, or the one most favoured by the chances of the fight? 27868 Have we done the trick this time? 27868 Have you the bucolic tastes of your rival in finery, the Splendid Phanæus? 27868 Have you within you the humble germ of human thought? 27868 How can time and experience be factors of instinct? 27868 How did the Lamb become a Wolf? 27868 How did we, the little Rodez schoolboys, learn the secret of the Turkey''s slumber? 27868 How does the Lily- beetle live during the summer, before the return of the green foliage dear to its race? 27868 How does the clumsy insect manage to accomplish so delicate and complex a piece of building? 27868 How does the pigmy measure the enormous monument that is the human body? 27868 How does the wood- eating insect guide itself in the thickness of a tree- trunk? 27868 How has this tiny creature made its way from the underground lodging where the eggs are hatched to the fleece of a Bee? 27868 How is it that this object, whatever the quality of its surface, will sometimes suit them and sometimes not? 27868 How is this long period of solitude and captivity spent? 27868 How many were there on the larva''s back? 27868 How then do they recognize the nature of the object to which they have just moved? 27868 How will the germ and the young larva manage to breathe under that clay casing, which intercepts the access of the air? 27868 I ought to have expected this: had I not just seen them wandering without pause upon the everlastings enveloped with cottony flock? 27868 If it has nothing to serve as a mould and a base, how does it set to work to assemble the first layers of paste into a neatly- shaped cup? 27868 If its baby- flannel is so good to start with, what will the future ulster be, when the stuff, brought to perfection, is of much better quality? 27868 If the creature were really shamming, what need would it have of these minute preliminaries to the awakening? 27868 If they have issued from the same stock, how have they acquired such dissimilar talents? 27868 If they spring from a common stock, how did the consumption of flesh supplant the consumption of honey? 27868 In its present state, of what use would eyes be to it at the bottom of a clay cell, where the most absolute darkness prevails? 27868 In what diggings does it find its gold nuggets? 27868 Is he advising his collaborators of what he has discovered? 27868 Is he arranging the work with a view to their establishing themselves elsewhere, on propitious soil? 27868 Is instinct derived from the organ, or is the organ instinct''s servant? 27868 Is it by touch, by some sensation due to the inner vibrations of living flesh? 27868 Is it really a group of eggs? 27868 Is it the capsule of a plant, from which the lid has dropped, allowing the seeds to fall? 27868 Is it the grub''s object to disgust its enemies? 27868 Is it the stone of some unknown fruit, emptied of its kernel by the patient tooth of the Field- mouse? 27868 Is the Scorpion dead? 27868 Is the Snail really dead? 27868 Is the compass a chemical influence, or electrical, or calorific, or what not? 27868 Is the difficulty of pairing in a transversal position the explanation of the long grappling- irons thrown out to a distance? 27868 Is the insect capable of doing so? 27868 Is there any one in the world who can flatter himself that he has escaped the spoiler? 27868 Is there not something here to guide the sapper? 27868 Is there on this side of the dividing line a paint- stuff and on the other side a dye- stuff, absolutely different in character from the first? 27868 Is this a matter of practice, or is it an increase of cunning employed in the hope of finally tiring a too persistent enemy? 27868 Is this culinary procedure undertaken in respect of the larvæ, which might be incommoded by the fur? 27868 Is this manoeuvre really thought out? 27868 It remembered, compared, judged, reasoned: does the drowsy, digesting paunch remember? 27868 Might we not one day be able to benefit by this hint? 27868 Need I add that the grub lies down and goes to sleep, for the nymphosis, with its head against the door? 27868 Now what can the gorgeous foreigner do? 27868 Now what do we find under the shelter of the oak? 27868 Now what symptoms herald their return to activity? 27868 O delightful days when we put the Turkeys to sleep, can I recover the skill which I then possessed? 27868 Of poor intellectual repute, does the Turkey deserve his name for stupidity? 27868 Of what use are these obstacles? 27868 Or can it be simply a caprice of fashion, an outlandish fancy? 27868 Or did they, on the contrary, dig at its base solely in order to bury that part of the Mole which lay on the ground? 27868 Or is it just a casual result, a mere loss of hair due to putridity? 27868 Safety? 27868 The radiating denticulations of the forehead, the insect''s gambols in the bright sunlight? 27868 The sound of what, in the silence of solitude? 27868 Their meal? 27868 Then what can be the meaning of this pseudochrysalid stage, which, when passed, leads precisely to the point of departure? 27868 Then what do you want, you fiendish little creatures? 27868 Then why are they there? 27868 There is the eternal question, if we do not rise above the commonplace: how did the insect acquire so wise an art? 27868 They obtain nothing, therefore, from the Anthophora''s body; but perhaps they nibble her fleece, even as the Bird- lice nibble the birds''feathers? 27868 This again is possible: who would venture to set tooth to such a heap of filth? 27868 This love of tropical temperature suggests the following question: what would happen if I were to chill the creature in its immobile posture? 27868 To adorn itself like this, in what Golconda does the insect gather its gems? 27868 To go from the murky heart of the tree to the sun- steeped bark, why does he not follow a straight line? 27868 Under ordinary conditions would the adult Oil- beetle have emerged from her cell at this period? 27868 Under these conditions can the pill- shaped cell be constructed? 27868 Was I wrong? 27868 Was it, so far as they were concerned, a choice dictated by the foresight of instinct, or just simply the result of a lucky chance? 27868 Was the passage also carried through the bark? 27868 We can understand the object of the feminine beacon; but of what use is all the rest of the pyrotechnic display? 27868 Well, has the insect, or rather, has any kind of animal, a presentiment that its life can not last for ever? 27868 Were they very wrong? 27868 What are the two inseparables doing? 27868 What becomes of it once the egg is exhausted? 27868 What becomes of its excretions? 27868 What can be the nature of that singular lid whereof the Cerambyx furnishes me with the first specimen? 27868 What can be the psychology of a creature possessing such a powerful digestive organism combined with such a feeble set of senses? 27868 What can be the visual impression of the insect when face to face with that monstrosity, man? 27868 What can he do? 27868 What can the grub''s palate appreciate in this monotonous fare? 27868 What can this envelope be, so remarkable for its elegance, with its spiral mouldings, its thimble- pits and its hop- scales? 27868 What can this something be, unless it be food? 27868 What did the Megathopæ, the Bolbites, the Splendid Phanæus eat and knead, before the arrival of the present purveyor? 27868 What do these imprints mean? 27868 What do your flanks contain? 27868 What does he find before him? 27868 What does it care for our hunting, whether we be children or scientists? 27868 What does it keep in the back- shop? 27868 What does it know of the outside world? 27868 What does it want? 27868 What does the little that we have learnt teach us? 27868 What has become of the other two, both males? 27868 What has become of the others? 27868 What has the Clythra wherewith to achieve its ideal jewel? 27868 What have the lessons of touch and taste contributed to that rudimentary receptacle of impressions? 27868 What have we learnt from him? 27868 What is his manner of consuming it? 27868 What is his object in thus sponging himself, in dusting and polishing himself so carefully? 27868 What is it seeking? 27868 What is it? 27868 What is the object of these extravagant arms, these curious grappling- irons out of all proportion to the insect''s size? 27868 What is the purpose of this nasty great- coat? 27868 What is there behind all this? 27868 What name shall we give to that form of existence which, for a time, abolishes the power of movement and the sense of pain? 27868 What shall I give my famished nurselings? 27868 What sign denotes that one of the five who was able, in so rational a manner, to call for help? 27868 What then is the guide? 27868 What trade do you follow under your torrid sun, O gleaming carbuncle? 27868 What use would it have for such a prerogative, loving repose as it does and destined to put on fat in its cell, without roaming in quest of food? 27868 What were they doing there, all these feverish workers? 27868 What will be the result of the experiment? 27868 What will become of these little bodies and so many other pitiful remnants of life? 27868 What will happen in the midst of that profound silence? 27868 What will the motionless insect do if I carry it thither, from my table to the window, into the bright light? 27868 What will they do now? 27868 What would happen under the natural conditions? 27868 What would it be if they had to pass through a thickness of oak? 27868 What would it do with sight, in the murky thickness of a tree- trunk? 27868 What would the Decticus do with nutritive reserves, seeing that he is near his end, now that the nuptial season has arrived? 27868 What, then, did the man with the Frog, of whom Gleditsch tells us, really see? 27868 When Macleay[25] gave the Sacred Beetle the name of Heliocantharus, the Black- beetle of the Sun, what had he in mind? 27868 When and how did it get in? 27868 When and how does it deliver its attack? 27868 When will she wake up?
27868Whence did it derive the motives of its actions?
27868Where could it find, even with chance assisting, a better plan?
27868Where sounds are lacking, of what use is the faculty of discerning them?
27868Who does not know it, at least by name?
27868Who has not seen it roam amid the grass, like a spark fallen from the moon at its full?
27868Who will explain to me this predilection for the Orthopteron in a tribe whose chief, the Oil- beetle, accepts nothing but the mess of honey?
27868Who would look for virtue in such a quarter?
27868Why do insects which appear close together in all our classifications possess such opposite tastes?
27868Why not?
27868Why not?
27868Why prolong the agony of the impotent and the imbecile?
27868Why should not the insect''s organism, so delicate and subtle, give way beneath the grip of fear and momentarily succumb?
27868Will it be the same, because of similarity of structure, with other members of the same group?
27868Will it once more cover me with confusion?
27868Will the Capricorns come out, or not?
27868Will the find thus hanging where it chances to fall remain unemployed?
27868Will the grave- digger find himself helpless against such an obstacle, which must be an extremely common one?
27868Will the insect pick itself up?
27868Will they scrape at the foot of the gibbet in order to overturn it?
27868With what natural enemy shall I confront the big Scarites, motionless on his back?
27868Without a good dose of this quality, a mental defect in the eyes of practical folk, who would busy himself with the lesser creatures?
27868Would it not be possible to find a defensive system of equal value without resorting to detestable filth?
27868[ 4] But what can such a cuirass avail against the bandit''s ruthless pincers?
44287Then, at bottom, the government will be democratic?
44287What key?--and how?
44287What say you? 44287 Who would not respect the misfortune of such blameless and over- eager workers?
44287***** Has modern science swept away the ancient poesy?
44287***** Have they any sympathies beyond their own race?
44287***** Was he dead, or stunned?
44287A true palace, or rather a vast and superb city; limited in breadth, but to what depth may it not penetrate the earth?
44287All this seems clear, does it not?
44287An ant''s existence?
44287And I myself, what am I but an atom?
44287And for what purpose, if love itself ought to appear without an intermediary?
44287And how understand the latter without studying side by side the inferior animals which translate and explain disease?
44287And how?
44287And that, having once forsaken it, they think of it no more?
44287And what are the numbers of these?
44287And what reason?
44287And what, then, of the quadrupeds?
44287And where is it more perceptible than in the infinite travail of the little organic world on which our eyes were fixed?
44287And wherefore should they economize, when to- morrow they die?
44287And wherefore?
44287And why?
44287And yet I can not fly from them: swarms haunt the very air which I breathe,--what do I say?
44287And, therefore, it is most indubitably its individual being which it courageously leaves to shrivel up and perish, to become-- what?
44287Are we two?
44287But can one see into such delicate mysteries with the eye alone?
44287But how can they avoid the air?
44287But how do they appreciate this?
44287But how was it to be done?
44287But how?
44287But in the noonday heat will she remain inactive?
44287But is_ maternity_ all?
44287But then how can we put the invisible point in an invisible object?
44287But what do the latter?
44287But what do they feed them with?
44287But what does Nature think of it?
44287But what is this divining- rod?
44287But what of that?
44287But where was the animal life of the forest?
44287But who would suppose that this very circumstance would doom it to death?
44287But, in reality, are these qualities of so contradictory a nature?
44287Can I seize in their strange visage any trace of an intelligence which, judging by their works, so closely resembles our own?
44287Can there be no exception to the pitiless law?
44287Can you conceive of an insect with the sensibility and tenderness of the dog?
44287Colour or gloss?
44287Could it do so?
44287Did she live?
44287Do I mean that all slumbered in full confidence?
44287Do I mean that you should copy these?
44287Do you not see this little miracle, this dumb confidant of the grave, which makes us the mock of destiny?
44287Do you wish for feathers?
44287Do you wish for water?
44287Does Europe perceive that quite a complete literature has sprung from Great Britain in the last twenty years?
44287Does it exceed?
44287Does it fall, as some have asserted, into complete demoralization?
44287Does it seek to enjoy the sun?
44287Does its heart-- for it has one-- beat after the fashion of mine?
44287Does not all this wear the appearance of a free adhesion to the established order of things?
44287Does not the feebleness of the sense of vision lead us astray?
44287Does such a calamity entail a furious anarchy, a universal pillage of the people by the people themselves?
44287Enfeebled and fatigued by so great a transformation, how shall it break through the too solid cradle which threatens to suffocate it?
44287For what am I myself, but a worker?
44287For what more powerfully consecrates existence, and renders it sympathetic, reverend, and sacred?
44287Frightful?
44287Has it completely eliminated the miraculous from nature?
44287Has it the intelligence, the resource, and, at need, the power of innovation which the superior insects display under certain conditions?
44287Has the insect a brain?
44287Have I insisted too much upon my theme?
44287Have our sciences been sufficiently attentive to this fact?
44287Have they a physiognomy?
44287How am I to exercise my wits to discover a mode of communicating with them?
44287How could I reassure it?
44287How could these little beings come to the aid of an infinity?"
44287How cure the sick man unless you understood the healthy?
44287How did learned Europe welcome this novel science of metamorphoses?
44287How does the insect express its intensity of vital force?
44287How does the tree defend itself?
44287How is this?
44287How many workmen has it not since deprived, if not of life, at least of sight?
44287How should aught be wanting for the illumination of the bridal- joy of the insect?
44287How should this be?
44287How well adapted to influence a woman!--But is this a fact?
44287If the insect does not and will not speak to us, are we to suppose that it does not express the burning intensity of the life within it?
44287In less than an hour commences the equally inclement evening, the frozen night,--nay, who knows?
44287In this, then, do we not discern, as it were, a first glimpse of personality?
44287In what manner, then, does he express himself?
44287Is death ever otherwise?
44287Is it a simple spy- glass?
44287Is it not a new birth?
44287Is it stature, then, which changes your moral judgments?
44287Is it the evening, or is it a coming storm, which has changed them?
44287Is not a substance so corrosive for others equally dangerous to themselves?
44287Is the fixed and immovable mask, thus condemned to perpetual silence, that of a monster or a spectre?
44287Is their work terminated?
44287Is this all?
44287Is this internal combat between the two lives, the animal and the vegetable, really understood?
44287It matters not; for who shall rightly determine what is really great or little?
44287It seemed to say,"Where am I?"
44287It watched me closely with all its eight eyes, and propounded to itself the problem,"Is he, or is he not, an enemy?"
44287Its senses are infinitely subtle, but do they resemble_ my_ senses?
44287Life itself in its essence, in that sparkling beverage by which France diffuses joy over all the earth, whence comes it?
44287Man has discovered, in its fulness, the secret of things?
44287Must she indeed perish?
44287Observe another singularity: shall we call it a trivial one?
44287One day a person said to Omar:--''What think you of locusts?''
44287Or his young page, Rosalind, after she appears as a laughing damsel?"
44287Ought I to flatter myself that I can render it clearer than my masters have done?
44287Shall I say it, however?
44287Shall we affirm that they have quitted without regret the native land where they toiled so successfully?
44287Should it be by gratings, or doors?
44287Since when has it been planted here?
44287THE MICROSCOPE:--HAS THE INSECT A PHYSIOGNOMY?
44287THE MICROSCOPE:--HAS THE INSECT A PHYSIOGNOMY?
44287The Memphis, the Babylon, the true Capitol of the insects, is built-- by whom?
44287The ancient mystery has perished?
44287The exquisite structure of a woman''s hair enlarged upon, 185 What can compare with it?
44287The fatal inquiry,"Shall I dine?"
44287The honourable, economical, and respectable republic accordingly presents( one single day yearly, it is true) a prodigious spectacle-- of love?
44287The learned lady, in an exemplary life of misfortunes and virtues, had but one weakness( who has not one?)
44287The mother is dead?
44287The spectacle first presented to us under the noble funereal pillars-- the pillars, may we not say?
44287Their virtues?
44287Therefore, how should it speak, how complain?
44287These germs, though put aside, remain to me; too late for expansion in this life, perhaps, but in another,--who knows?
44287They are now at rest, it is true; but are they not about to rise?
44287This scale of heat, extending over forty degrees, what is it but a thermometer?
44287Thought?
44287To what may I compare my long laborious career?
44287Was I wrong, then, in saying that this construction is truly one of"the living stones"?
44287Was this all?
44287We call it its_ larva_, its mask; but why?
44287Were these the voices of their genii, their Dryads?
44287Were they devouring one another?
44287Were they enjoying a festival of love?
44287Were we one?
44287What are the proportions which will merit your esteem?
44287What are their numbers?
44287What are these least of the little?
44287What art thou?
44287What can be more divine than these Alps?
44287What cause?
44287What could I do for this ravaged world, this half- ruined city?
44287What could we do?
44287What do I say?
44287What does it matter?
44287What happens?
44287What has been my greatest happiness in this world?
44287What have the great animals discovered?
44287What is death?
44287What is its first duty?
44287What is life?
44287What is the awakening, or what the slumber?
44287What is the little tribe of Birds, or that of Quadrupeds, compared with them?
44287What is the object of these constructions?
44287What lies at the bottom?
44287What organs?
44287What prevents us from making use of them?
44287What really killed him?
44287What scruple hinders us from active and useful reprisals against them?"
44287What shall we say of a being which breathes through its side and flanks?
44287What should we say of our human operatives, if they marched ever bristling with the steel and old iron they make use of in their labours?
44287What then becomes of the orphaned world?
44287What was known of the Infinite prior to 1600?
44287What would be its sensations on quitting its soft asylum, and falling into the cold air?
44287What, then, is it?
44287Where do we find this saying?
44287Where was it?
44287Where?
44287Who can fail to be affected by their flame?
44287Who can renounce the truth, after once beholding it?
44287Who can willingly return into the world of errors wherein men exist?
44287Who does not know that the prophets, musing in the caves of Carmel, ate nothing else?
44287Who has carried the art to such a climax?
44287Who knows but that the life of the stars may be of minor importance?
44287Who or what warns them the moment a stroke too much would break an opening in the partition?
44287Who shall describe all the services rendered by these scavengers?
44287Who shall describe the mystery of this profound hidden basin?
44287Who shall say of yonder hive whether the flower or the bee has furnished the greater part?
44287Who that sees it dead would divine that, in charming nimbleness, it is the favourite of Nature, in which she has exhausted all her grace?
44287Who thinks of accusing the flame?
44287Who will not bestow a glance of pity on this great work, and a result of such uncertain character?
44287Who would not shrink from hunting after and carrying living victims to be devoured?
44287Who, under our gloomy and variable sky, has not seen the sparkling Spanish fly?
44287Why did he not escape?
44287Why hast thou called me so cruelly, before the proper hour, from my soft cradle to the harsh drudgery of life?
44287Why?
44287You would say that within itself another self exists, moving, and stirring, and following up a distinct purpose, and yearning to become-- what?
44287[ Illustration] Does not our forest deserve the name of the Shakespearian comedy,"As You Like It"?
44287[ Illustration] Frankly, is there aught approaching such a degree of excellence in our human arts?
44287does it know?
44287he cried,"is this your feeling for the Beautiful?
44287of a paradoxical walker, which, contrary to all other organisms, presents its back to the earth and its belly to the sky?
44287or, finally, the compassionateness of man?
44287this simple and attractive delusion, which, while promising only dryness, faithfully stores up underneath the treasure of its waters?
44287what ails thee, then?"
44287where are you?''
44287which should nourish the aspirations and poetry of the nightingale?
44287which should weep like the beaver?
18350And this-- will you have this?
18350My dear master, how can I choose out of so many jewels, when each one is perfect in its beauty? 18350 What would you have me say?"
18350(_ Melolontha fullo._)] Now what did the ancient naturalist mean by the term"fuller beetle"?
18350Among the theorists of our day, is there any so far- sighted as to be able to solve this enigma?
18350And by whom?
18350And how, in a soil as dry as a cinder, is the plaster made with which the walls are covered?
18350And the others?
18350And the worker-- in what condition is it?
18350And what did they find?
18350And what without the blackbird and its rivalry of song were the reawakening of the woods in spring?
18350And why?
18350Are my beetles hoary with age?
18350Are there not sometimes unexpected accidents?
18350Are these splendid plumes merely items of finery, or do they really play a part in the perception of the effluvia which guide the lover?
18350Are you afflicted with any kidney trouble, or are you swollen with dropsy, or have you need of some powerful diuretic?
18350As one does not speak of the"egg- box"of the titmouse, meaning"the nest of the titmouse,"why should I invoke the box in speaking of the Mantis?
18350Buried under this short column of powdery earth, will it be able to gain the surface?
18350But at what stage does it take the first sip?
18350But do they do so in order to help it?
18350But do they respect one another when there is no previous wound?
18350But does the Mantis really employ two secretions?
18350But how are the two series of scales obtained, and the fissures, the gates of exit which they shelter?
18350But how did it get there, so far from the point of entry?
18350But how?
18350But in the case of the Great Peacock or the Oak Eggar, what molecules are actually disengaged?
18350But is not the material detached simply thrust back behind the excavator as the work progresses?
18350But is the grub capable of fasting for any length of time when once hatched?
18350But what are we to say in palliation of the vegetarians?
18350But what are we to say of the Great Peacock moth and the Oak Eggar, both of which find their captive female?
18350But what cares the Ant for this expression of sovereign contempt?
18350But what is the object of this atrocious custom?
18350But what were these four bundles of tissue while still enclosed in their sheaths?
18350But you, which do you prefer?"
18350By what aberration does the mother abandon her children to starvation on this totally insufficient vegetable?
18350Can we speak of vision in this connection?
18350Could this unfortunate creature have fled and saved himself, being thus attacked in the performance of his functions?
18350Couldst thou eat it, with thy beak?
18350Crook- fingers, big- bellies, what do you say, Who govern the world with the cash- box-- hey?
18350Deceived by a fallacious odour, were they endeavouring to lay and establish their eggs as they would have done under the shelter of a corpse?
18350Deprived of their antennæ, would they be able to find the captive, now placed at a considerable distance from her original position?
18350Deprived of their beautiful plumes, were they ashamed to appear in the midst of their rivals, and to prefer their suits?
18350Did it think out a plan and work out a scheme of its own devising?
18350Did the ingenious insect conceive the undertaking?
18350Did the two masters, in the unfettered gaiety of a language less reserved than our own, ever mention the virtues of the haricot?
18350Did they halt in order to take a little nourishment by implanting their proboscis?
18350Did they prove that the lack of antennæ rendered them incapable of finding the cage in which the prisoner waited?
18350Did we receive, together with the vegetable, the name by which it is known in its native country?
18350Did you come from Central Asia with the broad bean and the pea?
18350Did you make part of that collection of seeds which the first pioneers of culture brought us from their gardens?
18350Do they die a natural death, and do the survivors then clean out the bodies?
18350Do they hear their brother gnawing at the walls of his lodging?
18350Do they perish outside when the more precocious have one by one taken their places in their vegetable larder?
18350Do they wish to take flight and escape?
18350Do you suffer from any nephritic irritation or from stricture?
18350Do you wish to convince yourself of the efficiency of this mechanism?
18350Does he never perform useful work?
18350Does it really terrify its prey?
18350Does not this lack of growth during November, the mildest month of winter, prove that no nourishment is taken until the spring?
18350Does she employ the rostrum to place the egg in its position at the base of the acorn?
18350Does she perhaps emit vibrations of such delicacy or rapidity that only the most sensitive microphone could appreciate them?
18350Does the bee count upon its sting?
18350Does the female answer the chirp of her_ innamorata_ by a similar chirp?
18350Does the insect really require to emit these resounding effusions, these vociferous avowals, in order to declare its passion?
18350Does the lover make use of his faculty as a means of seduction and appeal?
18350Does the word as a matter of fact come from the American Indians?
18350Does the_ Hydnocystis_ possess a very keen odour, such as we should expect to give an unmistakable warning to the senses of the consumer?
18350Does this actually mean that there are several grubs in the pea?
18350Food?
18350For example, who is there that does not, at least by hearsay, know the Cigale?
18350For whom did I take it?
18350From the moment when the chilblain and the nest of the Mantis were known by the same name were not the virtues of the latter obvious?
18350From what vermin does he free our beds and borders?
18350Had my butterflies apprehensions similar to Master Mouflard''s?
18350Had the Great Peacock butterfly outstripped and anticipated mankind in this direction?
18350How are they warned that the place is taken?
18350How did so much material contrive to occupy so little space?
18350How did they learn of what was happening in my study?
18350How does the mother know that honey, in which she herself delights, is noxious to her young?
18350How does this communal feast terminate?
18350How far is this title deserved?
18350How is it that the Mantis, for who knows how many ages, has been able to outstrip our physicists in this problem in calorics?
18350How is it then that the acridian trusts to a hold so easily broken?
18350How is the convexity of the cymbals altered?
18350How many were there?
18350How shall I dare to appear before the other dogs?"
18350How then is the feeble vibration of the cymbals re- enforced until it becomes intolerable?
18350How then is the sound engendered?
18350I opened my eyes wide,"What is that?"
18350If odour, as we understand it, is the dog''s only guide, how does he manage to follow that guide amidst all these totally different odours?
18350If the root were to fail, and the reservoir of the intestine were exhausted, what would happen?
18350In a word, does she, after her fashion, employ a system of wireless telegraphy?
18350In her long embrace of the poisoned bee, how does Philanthus avoid this sting, which does not willingly give up its life without vengeance?
18350In what fencing- school did the slayer learn that terrible upward thrust beneath the chin?
18350Is he warned of the contents of the subsoil by a general emanation, by that fungoid effluvium common to all the species?
18350Is it not thinkable that they are able to detect, in the gaseous atmosphere, floating particles that are not gaseous?
18350Is it really an odour such as we perceive and understand?
18350Is it really efficacious?
18350Is it the only point that is vulnerable?
18350Is it their custom to kill the wounded and to eviscerate such of their fellows as suffer damage?
18350Is it to be found elsewhere?
18350Is the honey- fed grub, inversely, killed by carnivorous diet?
18350Is the presence of this source of sap fortuitous?
18350Is the song a means of charming, of touching the hard of heart?
18350Is this fluid, evacuated by the intestine, a product of urinary secretion-- simply the contents of a stomach nourished entirely upon sap?
18350Is this practice of post- matrimonial cannibalism a general custom in the insect world?
18350Is this the result of a struggle between rivals?
18350May it not-- Yes!--But, after all, who knows?
18350May not the central portion of the pea be the feeding- bottle of the Bruchid?
18350Might not the Balaninus follow an analogous method?
18350Must I amalgamate some more or less appropriate words of Greek and fabricate a portentous nomenclature?
18350Must not the larva of the Cigale bore its passage in some such fashion?
18350Now are we to take their interminable chant for a passionate love- song?
18350Now the question arises: What is the object of these musical orgies?
18350Now what has happened that these lives around the privileged one should be thus annihilated?
18350Now, what does the Mantis do?
18350Of the sixteen, how many returned to the cage that night?
18350Or is it the result of deliberate choice on the part of the larva?
18350Or is the population being reduced at the expense of sound and healthy insects?
18350Organise something?
18350Perhaps; but how are we to know?
18350Sacred provocations of lovers, are they not in all ages the same?
18350Scientific dreams?
18350Shall we conclude that the Cigale is deaf?
18350Shall we credit it to the Bruchus?
18350Should I begin all over again in the fourth year?
18350So again we will ask: by what process did the egg of the elephant- beetle reach a point so far from the orifice in the acorn?
18350Then why this fruitless labour?
18350They are peaceful intruders, to be sure; but even were they dangerous, did they threaten to rifle the nest, would she attack them and drive them away?
18350Think you the ant will lend an ear?
18350This archetype, the co- ordinator of forms; this primordial regulator; have you got it on the end of your syringe?
18350This conjugal fidelity is delightful; but is it really the rule?
18350To thee what matters winter?
18350To what ideal height will the process of evolution lead mankind?
18350To what should we attribute this superior fertility?
18350To which of the two performers should the palm be given?
18350To- day it is not my intention to sing your merits; I wish simply to ask you a question, being curious: What is the country of your origin?
18350Under the shining head of the Decticus, behind the long face of the cricket, who is to say what is passing?
18350Was I not right to insist?
18350Was I to find such an insect?
18350Was it confusion on their part, or want of guidance?
18350Was it not rather exhaustion after an attempt exceeding the duration of an ephemeral passion?
18350Was it to enjoy the spectacle of a frenzied massacre?
18350Was the beak thrust into the depths of the base merely to obtain, from the choicer parts, a few sips of nutritious sap?
18350Was the beetle piercing the fruit merely to obtain drink and refreshment?
18350Was the whole undertaking merely a matter of personal nourishment?
18350Was Æsop really its author, as tradition would have it?
18350Were you known to antiquity?
18350What are the motives that safeguard the germ?
18350What are these frenzied creatures doing?
18350What are these insects doing?
18350What are these spots, of which I count five, six, and even more on a single pea?
18350What are they doing up there during the fortnight of their festival?
18350What are we to conclude from all this?
18350What are we to conclude from this persistence of the orchestra, its lack of surprise or alarm at the firing of a charge?
18350What are we to give him to eat?
18350What are you going to do with it?
18350What becomes of the earth which is removed?
18350What change occurs in the stomach of the insect that the adult should passionately seek that which the larva refuses under peril of death?
18350What connection has the subject of this chapter with the fuller of cloth?
18350What could the earth do with such prodigality?
18350What do these four huntresses, and others of similar habits, do with their victims when the crops of the latter are full of honey?
18350What do these suns warm?
18350What do they perceive at that distance?
18350What do they want?
18350What do we learn from the slaughter- houses of Chicago and the fate of the beetle''s victims?
18350What does it really represent, as seen from below?
18350What does she require?
18350What does the empty stomach mean?
18350What else do we notice?
18350What formerly was woman?
18350What game does the Gardener Beetle hunt?
18350What had my penny bargain in store for me?
18350What has occurred?
18350What is going to happen next?
18350What is her object when, before proceeding to sink her hole, she inspects her acorn, from above, below, before and behind, with such meticulous care?
18350What is it?
18350What is the nest to her?
18350What is the object of this long perforation, which often occupies more than half the day?
18350What is the result?
18350What is the use of this embarrassing pike, this ridiculous snout?
18350What is there, up there?
18350What is to become of all these supernumeraries, perforce excluded from the banquet for want of space?
18350What name are we to give to this initial phase of the Cigale-- a phase so strange, so unforeseen, and hitherto unsuspected?
18350What organ does this sense affect?
18350What place has maternal foresight here?
18350What profit could life hold henceforth?
18350What sense is it that informs this great butterfly of the whereabouts of his mate, and leads him wandering through the night?
18350What should we do, poor folk as we are, if the_ Courcoussoun_ robbed us of it?"
18350What then has happened, that this unhappy insect should be impaled like a specimen beetle with a pin through its head?
18350What then is the use of the enormous fan- like structure of the male antennæ?
18350What use are the claws of this tiny flea against rock, sandstone, or hardened clay?
18350What was happening in this big- bellied body; what transmutations were accomplished, thus to affect the whole countryside?
18350What was lacking to this egg, that it should fail to produce a grub?
18350What was the lure that so deceived them?
18350What will emerge from these miserable coverings?
18350What would be the use of sight underground?
18350What would happen if I imprisoned her in an opaque receptacle?
18350What would it be upstairs, where the prisoner was, the cause of this invasion?
18350What, then, is meant by the non- appearance of those whose antennæ I removed?
18350When and how?
18350When shall we see the end of it?
18350When the joys of liberty have been tasted will they return-- to- night, to- morrow, or later?
18350Whence comes wheat, the blessed grain which gives us bread?
18350Whence did they come?
18350Whence does it come?
18350Whence, then, arose the errors of his tale?
18350Where are the twelve cubic inches of earth that represent the average volume of the original contents of the shaft?
18350Where did they first go, these veterans of a day?
18350Where in the entomological world shall we find a more famous reputation?
18350Where is it, this original pea, in the world of spontaneous vegetation?
18350Where shall the deadly blow be delivered?
18350Where, and how?
18350Who can explain this strange contrast in habits?
18350Who does not know this superb moth, the largest of all our European butterflies[3] with its livery of chestnut velvet and its collar of white fur?
18350Who has struck the blow?
18350Whom shall we hold responsible for these strange mistakes?
18350Why did Ovid, so prodigal of detail, neglect to mention a dish so appropriate to the occasion?
18350Why did the other twelve fail to appear, although furnished with their supposed guides, their antennæ?
18350Why did their feathery"feelers"leave them in ignorance of events which would have brought flocks of the other Eggar?
18350Why is a vegetable diet the rule in the hives of bees from the very commencement, when the other members of the same series live upon animal food?
18350Why is the larva of the Osmia, which thrives upon albumen, actually fed upon honey during its early life?
18350Why is this particular portion left untouched?
18350Why is this point attacked rather than another?
18350Why should not the domain of smell have its secret emanations, unknown to our senses and perceptible to a different sense- organ?
18350Why should there not be insects with similar habits among the amateurs of corpse- like savours?
18350Why so many grubs to each pea when one pea is sufficient only for one grub?
18350Why such protracted efforts?
18350Why this cellular envelope?
18350Why, indeed, should the insect wander to right or to left upon a twig which presents the same surface all over?
18350Why?
18350Why?
18350Will you give it the structure of a living edifice?
18350Will you inject it with a hypodermic syringe between two impalpable plates to obtain were it only the wing of a fly?
18350Will you tell me how you made the discovery?"
18350With the bean did those ancient teachers also involuntarily bring us the insect which to- day disputes it with us?
18350With what object are these perforations made, so laborious and yet so often unused?
18350Would he, in some distant hedge, receive warning of the bride who waited on my study table?
18350Would it approve of the mixture?
18350Would not such a receptacle arrest or set free the informing effluvia according to its nature?
18350Would the famous Bombyx issue from it?
18350Would the little ogre pass without repugnance from the gamey flavour of a corpse to the scent of flowers?
18350Would they return to the call that attracted them the night before?
18350Yet can he find the truffle at a hundred yards?
18350Yet who has told you, O man of little faith, that what is useless to- day will not be useful to- morrow?
18350You flash pearls, emeralds, and rubies before my astonished eyes: how should I decide to prefer the emerald to the pearl?
18350can they feel the vibration set up by his nibbling mandibles?
18350if you see them why do you not seize them in your talons, crush the pigmies at their work, so that you may proceed with your travail in security?
18350or do they succumb to the intolerant teeth of the first occupants?
18350or his master, in the complete absence of a trail?
18350without therapeutic means, without emetics or stomach- pumps, how is a stomach intact and in good order to be persuaded to yield up its contents?
3422''And pecaire?''
3422''And the reason?''
3422''Have n''t I the necessary attainment?''
3422''Then what do you propose to do?''
3422''What are they doing up there, those desolate trees?
3422''What are you doing with all those rows of figures amounting to zero?''
3422''What did she say?''
3422''What do you want for your laboratory?''
3422''What is that?''
3422''What will remain of my researches on the subject of instinct?
3422''Why do n''t you show those gentlemen your hands?''
3422''Will you help me?''
3422''Wo n''t you visit our museums, our collections?
3422ANOTHER PROBER( PERFORATOR) What can he be called, this creature whose style and title I dare not inscribe at the head of the chapter?
3422After all, may there not be some justification for the belief?
3422After an attempt at an explanation in which I made the most of the few gleams that reached me I asked him:''Do you understand?''
3422An aquarium?
3422And I left it at that for a moment or two, thinking hard, drawn now this way, now that with indecision:''Shall I accept?
3422And arithmetic?
3422And grammar?
3422And history, geography?
3422And how?
3422And the oxygen?
3422And these noisily buzzing with a sudden flight?
3422And these others, so eager for plunder?
3422And these, clad in black velvet?
3422And what for, pray?
3422And what was I to do now, to overcome the difficulty mentioned by my inspector and confirmed by my personal experience?
3422And what will the reader himself say, if I invite him to that sight?
3422And who knows?
3422And, to begin with, how much does it owe to heredity?
3422Are they drawn by this beacon?
3422Are they exasperated by other radiations, known or unknown?
3422Are they physically hurt by the chemical radiations?
3422Are we to look upon the bundle of sticks as a sort of raft whose density is less than that of the water?
3422Are we to look upon these as mandibles?
3422Besides, if murder formed part of its plans, why descend to the bottom of the cell, instead of attacking the defenseless recluse straight way?
3422Besides, what would it eat?
3422But is there really any pain?
3422But stones, which ruin your pockets; poisonous animals, which''ll sting your hand: what good are they to you, silly?
3422But, as it was, what could I expect?
3422But, if the beak were entirely closed, where would the eggs be laid then?
3422Can I have succeeded without any trouble at the first attempt?
3422Can it be my gas?
3422Can it be the grub that makes its own way into the storeroom, that same grub which we have seen draining the Chalicodoma with its leech- like kisses?
3422Can she be apprised of the depth of the chasm by the comparative faintness of the offensive odors that arise from it?
3422Can the big joists, which break in so ugly a fashion the none too great regularity of the work, serve to buoy up the over- heavy raft?
3422Can the mothers, in fact, dispense with their assistance, without being deprived of offspring on that account?
3422Can the nature of the floor make any difference to her?
3422Can the sense of smell measure the distance and judge whether it be acceptable or not?
3422Can the shells, which are always empty and able to contain a few bubbles of air in their spiral, he floats?
3422Can the worm, constantly floundering in the sanies of a carcass, be itself in danger of inoculation by that whereon it grows fat?
3422Can there be special compounds in mushrooms, alkaloids, apparently, which vary according to the botanical genus?
3422Can we be in the presence of the diffusive life of the plant, a life which persists in a fragment?
3422Could it perhaps be lack of relish, a deficiency of seasoning for stimulating the appetite?
3422Could they, in fact, contain soluble, colorless indigo?
3422Do both cases come within the same category?
3422Do these substances yield certain soluble elements to water?
3422Do they attack the healthy?
3422Do they come from the same workshop?
3422Do they eat, in the strict sense of the word?
3422Does she fear lest her worms should be bruised by an excessive drop?
3422Does the coprinus digest itself by virtue of a pepsin similar to the maggots''?
3422Does the stench of the meat not spread, coming from that depth?
3422Does this family proceed from one mother?
3422Does this liquefaction imply an easy change?
3422Eager to arrive, do they drop from the top of the wall?
3422For that matter, is it ever taught in the schools?
3422For what reason does the hernia, once the keg is staved, continue swollen and projecting?
3422From what height will the flesh fly dare to let her children drop?
3422Have you any capital?''
3422He sees me coming solemnly along, like a relic bearer; he catches sight of my hand hiding something behind my back:''What have you there, my boy?''
3422His request gave me a shock of surprise, which was forthwith repressed on reflection:''I give algebra lessons?''
3422How are the worms protected in their horrible work yard?
3422How are we to find those picturesque words, those striking features which arrest the attention?
3422How are we to group them into a language heedful of syntax and not displeasing to the ear?
3422How did it learn that, to safeguard the pupa, it must desert the carcass and that, to safeguard the fly, it must not bury itself too far down?
3422How do things like that find their way into the stone?
3422How do you set about it?
3422How does it separate when returning to inertia?
3422How does matter unite in order to assume life?
3422How does she lay her eggs, the origin of the loathsome maggot that battens poisonously on our provisions, whether of game or butcher''s meat?
3422How does she manage to get out?
3422How does the gray fly find the time to settle a family of such dimensions, especially in small packets, as she has just done on my window sill?
3422How does the vagabond, passing at a distance, know that, up there, invisible, high on the gibbet, there is something worth going for?
3422How does this singular consumer, who feeds without eating, set about it?
3422How is it that they find delicious what we find poisonous and why is it that what seems exquisite to our taste is loathsome to theirs?
3422How is that?
3422How is the parasite''s inroad into the flesh fly''s pupae effected?
3422How shall a man earn his living in my poor native village, with its inclement weather and its niggardly soil?
3422How to get out?
3422How to set about it?
3422How was this characteristic propensity, at once the torment and delight of my life, developed?
3422How will you manage tomorrow?
3422How, with such careless picking, are accidents avoided?
3422I went to the beggar woman and whispered in her ear:''Do you know who gave you that?
3422If I replace the flesh of the insect by that of another animal, the ox, for instance, shall I obtain the same results?
3422In breaking stones, can I have found, but on a much richer scale, the thing that shines quite small in my mother''s ring?
3422In what way does it go to work?
3422Is a condiment of this kind necessary to the grubs?
3422Is dryness necessary to them at this stage?
3422Is it a little bird chirping in his nest?
3422Is it not wonderful thus to formulate the orbit of the worlds?
3422Is it really an instance of endosmosis?
3422Is it really the famous metal of which twenty- franc pieces, so rare with us at home, are made?
3422Is it through indifference?
3422Is it worth while to sit up late at night and wear one''s self out in toil for the mere pleasure of learning?
3422Is that enough, O my busy insects, to enable me to add yet a few seemly pages to your history?
3422Is the game lost?
3422Is the work of deliverance arranged in the general interest?
3422Is this a defensive bite?
3422Is this poetic exaggeration?
3422Man catches sight of her:''Ah, would you?''
3422Might not these autumnal Bees be themselves exploited by the Anthrax, the same that selected the Osmia as her victim a couple of months earlier?
3422Must I cry off?
3422Now does the entrance of the Volucella into the presence of a few wasps entail such very great risks?
3422Now to what do we owe this distinctive character?
3422Now what do the fugitives feel?
3422Now what do the vermin do?
3422Now what do they do in this abode where there are no corpses?
3422Now what has happened?
3422Now what would happen if the pupae were there?
3422Now, in a soft diffused light, what can be the radiations capable of acting upon this lover of darkness?
3422Of what avail is the torment of learning to the derelicts of life?
3422Or are they simply reduced to a fine dust in the crushing?
3422Or is individual selfishness the only rule?
3422Seeing that identity of shape and costume does not save the Polistes, how will the Volucella fare, with her clumsy imitation?
3422Shall I go and spend them out of doors, in all the gaiety of my eighteen summers?
3422Shall I refuse?''
3422Shall physical or chemical forces explain why the animalcule digs into the hard clay?
3422Shall we manage it, among us all?
3422Short of botanical studies that are not within everybody''s reach, how are we to distinguish the harmless from the venomous?
3422Should I ever know?
3422Should I succeed?
3422Strength?
3422Suppose it should be what I am looking for?
3422Surely, to busy one''s self with those squalid sextons means soiling one''s eyes and mind?
3422THE CADDIS WORM Whom shall I lodge in my glass trough, kept permanently wholesome by the action of the water weeds?
3422The first question that presents itself is this: how do the greenbottle grubs feed?
3422Then how comes it that the cylinder of bits of root is so confused, so clumsily fashioned?
3422Then how does the fly set about it?
3422Then to what masters shall we have recourse to quicken and develop the humble germ that is latent within us?
3422Then what are we to do?
3422Then what explanation shall I give of the facts which I have just set forth?
3422Then what is there behind the wasp grub?
3422Then what is there in that terrible liquid?
3422Then what need is there for the Volucella to disguise herself as a wasp?
3422Then where are we to look for a reply?
3422Then why does the flesh fly, who but now was dropping her grubs from a goodly height, refuse to let them fall from the top of a column twice as high?
3422Then, bluntly:''Have you any money?''
3422To what do they owe this privilege?
3422Walk with me to the station, will you?
3422Was I, on my side, very wrong?
3422Was it a bit of diaphanous down stirred by my breath?
3422Was it an illusion born of my hopes?
3422Was it really the original larva of the Anthrax?
3422Well, what should I do to make the school earn its title of''upper primary''?
3422Well, what should I find beyond the grandparents where my facts come to a stop?
3422Well, what will become of this great pile of drawings, the object of so much work?
3422Were there loftier flights?
3422What are all my different acquaintances in the woods and meadows called?
3422What are her stratagems and how can we foil them?
3422What are the others doing, those who got splashed through standing too near the chemical bomb?
3422What are their names?
3422What are they all doing there?
3422What are you doing just now?''
3422What becomes of it when it leaves the egg?
3422What can a binomial theorem be, especially one whose author is Newton, the great English mathematician who weighed the worlds?
3422What can one do to a thing so very small?
3422What can those cherries be?
3422What could we do?
3422What did he perceive?
3422What did the best results of my studies of instinct cost me?
3422What did they want for their putrefaction?
3422What do these people gather?
3422What does Saxicola mean?''
3422What does he care for the rest?
3422What does it know of those depths, of what lies therein or where?
3422What does the root know of the earth''s fruitfulness?
3422What effect will pure white produce?
3422What else do you want?''
3422What else is there in the mixture in my watch glasses?
3422What has become of them?
3422What has happened?
3422What has happened?
3422What has it to make itself thus respected?
3422What has the future in store for it?
3422What has the mechanism of the sky to do with this?
3422What infernal mixtures did he compound?
3422What inspiration urges it towards its food at the bottom of the clod, what compass guides it?
3422What is the reason?
3422What is their number to one mother?
3422What is this at my feet?
3422What is this?
3422What is to be done?
3422What is wanted to keep the maggots out?
3422What reasons have made the recluse become a congregation?
3422What risk does she run?
3422What shall I call the room in which I was to become acquainted with the alphabet?
3422What shall we call it?
3422What shall we learn from the sharper- flavored mushrooms?
3422What should I set myself to produce?
3422What should we say to a method of being suckled by the mere application of the mouth to a teatless breast?
3422What to do next?
3422What was I to do before the disheartening wall that every now and then rose up and barred my road?
3422What was I to take in hand to raise me above the primary school, whose staff could barely earn their bread in those days?
3422What was needed thus to upset the procession of friars?
3422What was read at my school?
3422What was there upstairs?
3422What were they flying from?
3422What will be the result?
3422What will become of that infinitesimal spark of childish fancy?
3422What will become of you when your master is gone?
3422What will you show me?
3422What would be needed to supply the illuminating ray?
3422What would happen if, by an artifice, the sideward layer were nowhere thick enough to satisfy the grub?
3422When it is hard enough to earn one''s bit of bread, does not improving one''s mind but render one more meet for suffering?
3422When my comrade returns to his room, does he sleep, careless for the moment of the shifting scene which we have conjured up?
3422Whence do these favored ones derive a gift that borders on morality?
3422Whence do they come?
3422Whence does it derive this capacity?
3422Where are they?
3422Where did you get it?''
3422Where does it come from?
3422Where is the cheerful face of former days, bright with enthusiasm and hope?
3422Where lies its power?
3422Where shall I keep it, to make the best use of it?
3422Where shall we find that subject?
3422Where should I keep the precious picture?
3422Where the line auger of the Leucospis can enter, is there not room enough for the even slimmer Anthrax grub?
3422Where would they fix their first layer?
3422Who are the guests summoned to the banquet?
3422Who can these laggards be but animalcules that have roamed too long in the walls of the nest?
3422Who cares?
3422Who in the world, in her day, among the small folk, dreamt of knowing how to read and write?
3422Who is making that noise?
3422Who is this one?
3422Who knows what vistas the natural philosophy of the maggot might open out to us?
3422Who knows whether medical science could not employ them in relieving our ailments, even as it employs quinine, morphia and other alkaloids?
3422Who knows?
3422Who knows?
3422Who named them?
3422Who would not enter the pleasure gardens, with such a bait?
3422Why and how?
3422Why do the maggots eat the Satanic bolete and scorn the imperial mushroom?
3422Why do the two boletes with the red tubes, the purple bolete and the satanic bolete, change into a dark gruel?
3422Why does it go and take up its abode in the ground?
3422Why does the Lunary Copris know what his near kinsman, the Spanish Copris, does not?
3422Why does the worm quit the carcass, that capital shelter?
3422Why is the Sisyphus a hard working paterfamilias and the sacred beetle an idle vagabond?
3422Why must there be a jar to the even tenor of such joys?
3422Why not just one?
3422Why not make the most of it?
3422Why should I not describe my first discoveries?
3422Why should not its skin, which is one of the most delicate, be capable of absorbing?
3422Why should we not regard it as the cause of the black tint when the maggots have liquefied the boletes which turn blue?
3422Why such a thing as sex, when the tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke can do without it?
3422Why two sexes?
3422Why, indeed, did I forsake you so long?
3422Why?
3422Why?
3422Will his example find imitators?
3422Will it be the same if the food supplied be of a lower organism and consist of fish, for instance, of frog, mollusk, insect, centipede?
3422Will my strength not cheat my good intentions?
3422Will she find them?
3422Will the worms accept these viands and, above all, can they manage to liquefy them, which is the first and foremost condition?
3422Will you be knocked down for a franc, when the family come to apportion my poor spoils?
3422Will you be the plank on which the cabbages are shredded?
3422Will you be turned into a stand for the pitcher beside the kitchen sink?
3422With such a school and such a master and such examples, what will become of my embryo tastes, as yet so imperceptible?
3422With these arrangements, are we sure of warding off the fly and her vermin?
3422With what am I enjoying the glorious radiance: with my mouth or my eyes?
3422Would it be possible to isolate them and study their properties fully?
3422Would it not be the same with the chrysalis of the great peacock, dissected cell by cell by hundreds of infinitesimal anatomists?
3422Would it not be the same with the pupa of the flesh fly?
3422Would they protect themselves against the cold and rain?
3422Would you succeed in the things of the mind?
3422Would you?
49818How will the struggle for existence--I quote, with some omissions, the words of Darwin--"act in regard to variation?
49818Now what,he asks,[IU]"does this greater consumption of time imply?
49818[ CR] How, then, does Mr. Wallace himself suppose that these secondary sexual characters have arisen? 49818 ***** Turning now to the lower animals, the first question that suggests itself is-- What are their capacities for pleasure and pain? 49818 ***** We may now pass on to consider the position of those who give an affirmative answer to the question-- Can the body affect the germ? 49818 147; habits, are they inherited? 49818 159 Is there sufficient evidence that it does? 49818 493 The origin of interneural variations 496 Are acquired variations inherited? 49818 After that, I say to him,''Will you die for the queen, like a loyal soldier?'' 49818 Am I using the wordreason"in an unnatural and forced sense?
49818And from what have psychoses, or states of consciousness, been evolved?
49818And how can selective association be a means of isolation?
49818And how does Mr. Darwin meet this difficulty?
49818And if not due to natural selection, to what can it be due, save inherited antipathy?
49818And if these spirits are still powerful to act, why not petition them to act in certain ways?
49818And out of what has it been evolved?
49818And the question still remains-- From what source comes this tendency to beauty?
49818And what are the physical possibilities?
49818And what do I mean by"real"?
49818And what help have we towards answering it?
49818And what is an eject?
49818And what shall we say of the colour- vision of invertebrates?
49818And what, we may now proceed to ask, is the physiological or kinetic aspect of this metakinetic process?
49818Another general question with regard to the feelings is-- With what condition or state of the bodily organization are they associated?
49818Are not the phenomena he analyzes still the same, still equally real?
49818Are the two as yet undifferentiated?
49818Are these germinal cells mysteriously different from all the other cells which have undergone differentiation?
49818Are these in any cases distinctive of species?
49818Are they not produced by the ghost of the departed enemy, by the spirit of the deceased ancestor?
49818Are we not justified in believing that the female exerts a choice, and that she receives the addresses of the male who pleases her most?
49818Are we surprised at the want of surprise on the part of the cow?
49818Are we, then, to leave the question as insoluble?
49818At what distance apart, on the most delicate part of the retina, can two points of stimulation be recognized as distinct from each other?
49818But are they inherited?
49818But can the body so modified affect the germ- cells which it carries within it?
49818But failing that, why not hay?
49818But has not human selection through preferential mating?
49818But here we open up an important question-- Where do we feel a sensation, such as, for example, that of pressure on the skin?
49818But how came it that the father took to athletics, and was enabled to develop so lithe and powerful a frame?
49818But how do they produce their effects?
49818But how is the influence of the body brought to bear on the germ?
49818But how, it is asked, can we accept it if its_ modus operandi_ is inexplicable?
49818But how, it may be asked, on this view, or on any continuity hypothesis, are the origin of variations and their transmission to be accounted for?
49818But in their inception may they not have been symbolic of predominants?
49818But is this true of all animals?
49818But is this true of all animals?
49818But it may be further asked-- What is the use of the segregation?
49818But may it not be of indirect disadvantage?
49818But suppose the conditions are similar: can there be divergence in this case?
49818But what dog?
49818But what led me to construct an object with these qualities?
49818But what, it may be asked, can be the purpose of an eye- structure which gives, not an image, but merely a spot of light?
49818But where is the nuclear fission in the formation of gemmules?
49818But who is to determine which?
49818But who shall dare thus to limit the possibilities of organic nature?
49818Can animals, we may ask, form such arbitrary associations?
49818Can it be supposed that the weaving of a cocoon by the caterpillar is mainly a matter of lapsed intelligence?
49818Can the principle of selection, which is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature?
49818Can we be sure that there is really a summation of results-- that each generation is not affected_ de novo_ in a similar manner?
49818Can we conceive that, with organs so different, anything like a similar perceptual world can be elaborated in the insect mind?
49818Can we exclude the direct action of the more or less saline water, or the products of the unwonted food on the germinal cells?
49818Can we say that death-- as distinct from being killed-- is the natural heritage of every creature that lives?
49818Can we say that matter, when it reaches the complexity of the grey cortex of the brain, becomes at last self- conscious?
49818Can we suppose that it arose through the elimination of those ancestral animals which failed to perform this habit?
49818Complex psychoses have been evolved from less complex psychoses; these from simple psychoses; these, again, from-- what?
49818Do Arctic foxes tunnel in the snow for any other purposes?
49818Do all animals"move about and sleep"?
49818Do the clever foxes resemble the intelligent workman A, or the abstract reasoner B?
49818Does he believe that consciousness is an accompaniment of certain nervous processes in the grey cortex of the brain?
49818Does it support the view that the hen produces the egg or that the egg produces the hen?
49818Does the male parade his charms with so much pomp and rivalry for no purpose?
49818Evolution being continuity, associated with change, tending in certain directions, and accompanied by certain processes, how has it been effected?
49818Evolved from what?
49818Evolved from what?
49818Finally, if an acquired character, so called, is better developed in the child than in the parent, what is this but an example of variation?
49818For, if the plumage of the argus pheasant and the bird of paradise is due to the general laws of growth and development, why not the whole animal?
49818Fortunately for those who visit London( and who nowadays does not?
49818Granting its occurrence, is it effective?
49818Has he altered the reality of the phenomena themselves?
49818Have careful and reliable observers watched the foxes?
49818Have we not in them the signs for predominants not yet converted for the primitive utterers into isolates?
49818He is, however, perplexed by the question-- How can this be?
49818Here it is again reinforced and directed( who, at present, can say how?)
49818How can I here, by any metakinetic process, perceive the kinesis that is going on out there?"
49818How can that which is utterly and completely false to nature have had a natural evolution?
49818How can the results of analysis be more real than that which is analyzed?
49818How can these be explained?
49818How can we be sure that in the one case it was through fully attaining, in the other through failing to reach, the standard of taste?
49818How far does the dog construct a similar world?
49818How far is his symbolism the same as ours?
49818How far, we may ask, do such actions imply"a conscious knowledge of the relation between the means employed and the ends attained"?
49818How have this wealth, this diversity, this beauty, this manifold activity, which we summarize under the term"animal life,"been produced?
49818How is it that these gaudy and variable caterpillars, cream- coloured with orange and black markings, have escaped speedy destruction?
49818How the two sets of impressions are correlated and co- ordinated in insect- consciousness, who can say?
49818How were variations started in the first instance?
49818How, then, are we to account for our wide range of colour- sensation?
49818If Darwin''s sexual selection is to be thus superseded, why not Messrs. Darwin and Wallace''s natural selection?
49818If each lens thus gives an image, is not each the focussing apparatus of a single eye?
49818If each plastic embryo is moulded in turn by similar influence, how can we conclusively prove hereditary summation?
49818If fixed, how can differentiation occur in the same flock or herd?
49818If lapsed intelligence be excluded in these cases, why introduce it at all?
49818If mimicry in form and colour is due to natural selection, why not mimicry in habits and activities?
49818If panmixia alone can not, to any very large extent, reduce an organ no longer sustained by natural selection, to what efficient cause are we to look?
49818If the former, does it transfer its influence to the body- plasm during the life of the individual?
49818In the doorway Carlo stopped, and looked first up at his mistress and then into the store- room, as much as to say,''What can we think of this?''
49818Is it any injustice to the brutes to contend that their inferences are of the same order as those of these excellent practical folk?
49818Is it not because we believe in the practical unity of mankind?
49818Is it the germ- plasm or the body- plasm that is influenced by external stresses?
49818Is mind evolved from matter?
49818Is not the identification of neurosis and psychosis a begging of the question, unless the_ how_, the_ modus operandi_, is explained?
49818Is the object withheld or lost?
49818Is there any principle analogous to that of elimination which we have seen to be of such high importance in organic evolution?
49818Is there sufficient evidence to show conclusively that the body- cells have been modified, and have handed on the modification to the germ?
49818Is this a case of transmitted fibre and faculty?
49818It may be asked-- What advantage has such a view over realistic materialism?
49818May not these have been the stepping- stones from the perceptual predominants of animal man, to the conceptual isolates of rational man?
49818May not this structure be absorbing nutriment which would be more advantageously utilized elsewhere?
49818Must we, then, leave the question undecided?
49818Now, is this habit of elimination value?
49818Now, what is the guiding principle of the evolution and development of ideas in the world of their metakinetic environment?
49818Now, what was the nature of the construct framed at the bidding of the piercing howl?
49818Now, what would be the result of this alternation of good times and hard times?
49818Of what use would warning coloration be if it did not serve to suggest to the percipient the disagreeable qualities with which it is associated?
49818Once more, how is this increased power in that biceps muscle of the oarsman able to impress itself upon the sperms or the ova?
49818Or can we throw it into some form which is more general and less hypothetical?
49818Or, has the atmosphere been furnished with continuous fresh supplies of carbonic acid gas?
49818Secondly, some answer to the question-- How are the body- cells able to transmit their modifications to the germ- cells?
49818Seeing so great an amount of routine work going on around him, might he not be in danger of regarding all this as evidence of blind instinct?
49818Shall we leave this altogether out of account?
49818The question is-- Are they transmitted?
49818The question is-- Is each facetted organ an eye, or is it an aggregate of eyes?
49818The question is-- Which assumption yields the most consistent and harmonious results?
49818The question then naturally occurs-- How have these divergent forms escaped the swamping effects of intercrossing?
49818The question, then, is not-- How does the world mirror itself in the mind of the dog?
49818The standard may thus be maintained, but where is the possibility of progress?
49818The two factors in phenomena 331 The basis in organic evolution 336 Perceptual construction in mammalia 338 Can animals analyze their constructs?
49818Then at once arises the question-- Does life remain the same yesterday, to- day, and to- morrow?
49818There is pain: is it restored or gained?
49818There is pleasure: does it abide or remain constant?
49818This is but one mode of putting a very old question-- Does the hen produce the egg, or does the egg produce the hen?
49818To what other cause is the failure of heredity due?
49818To which category, then, does this hypothesis belong?
49818We may pass, then, to the question-- How?
49818What are its methods?
49818What are the characteristics of this growth?
49818What are the physiological effects?
49818What do we know, however, about the primitive tissue- differentiation of the earliest metazoa?
49818What guides the variation along special lines leading to heightened beauty?
49818What has guided it along these lines?
49818What is the evidence that adjusted nutrition can be inherited?
49818What is the proportion of those who adopt this device to those who gnaw through the string?
49818What is this mind which is said to be evolved?
49818What knows he of gravitation or the laws of the winds?
49818What knows she of anatomy or of physiology?
49818What shall we say concerning their constructs?
49818What shall we say of such cases?
49818What shall we say of such cases?
49818What, in similar terms, is the delicacy of sight?
49818What, on the principles above laid down, can we be said to know or have learnt about it?
49818What, then, is excluded?
49818What, then, is he-- his metakinetic self, not his kinetic material body-- to me?
49818What, then, is the essential nature of the respiratory process thus so differently manifested?
49818What, then, is the nature of this change?
49818What, then, it may be asked, does produce the egg?
49818What, then, we may now ask, is, on their view, the mode of origin of variations?
49818Whence comes the carbonic acid gas?
49818Wherein lies the utility of the divergence into two forms?
49818Which shall eventually prevail-- a spiritual interpretation of nature, a material interpretation, a monistic interpretation, or other, who shall say?
49818Whither goes the oxygen?
49818Who can decide the question between monist and materialist?
49818Who can say what will be the nature of the further evolution of any existing philosophical creed?
49818Who can tell?
49818Who dare arbitrate between the bishop and the professor?
49818Who shall say, however, what was passing through the mind of the dog in any of these three cases?
49818Why have these no similar tufts?
49818Why not assume that neural processes, when they reach a certain complexity, give rise to or produce consciousness?
49818Why not_ find_ hay inside; and, finding hay, why not enjoy the good provender thus provided?
49818Why should we be?
49818Why, then, rediscuss the question under these new terms?
49818[ KL] In both cases, the question to which an answer is suggested is not-- What variations will arise?
49818and if so, how?
49818but rather-- How far does the symbolic world of the dog resemble the symbolic world of man?
49818but-- What variations will survive?
49818or is their segregation the direct effect of their differential fertility?
49818or, to put the question in a more satisfactory form-- Are the limits of sensibility to light- vibrations the same in them as in us?
49818the twisted skull of flat- fish) produced?
49818why not_ all_ instinctive activities?
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25887''Do you know this gentleman?'' 25887 1""Then what should it be?"
258871/2+ 1/3=?
258871/4+ 2/5=?
258871/7+ 5/8=?
258872 and 6?
258872,and"Where is one pound?"
2588725/ l;"and further?"
258874/ a;"and then?"
25887A bird?
25887After this I showed him another box of biscuits, with a picture of a little nigger- boy on the lid, and asked:''What do you see on this?''
25887All people?
25887Ambitious to see who is the stronger?
25887An animal?
25887And 20 Pfennige?
25887And 3/20 Mark, how many Pfennige?
25887And 60?
25887And a horse?
25887And after yourself?
25887And anything more?
25887And do you want more?
25887And do you_ always_ feel what I think?
25887And have you eaten it up?
25887And how many decimetres in two and a half centimetres?
25887And how many decimetres to twenty centimetres?
25887And how many girls?
25887And in three weeks?
25887And is that all? 25887 And the Pfennige?"
25887And the minutes?
25887And to the second?
25887And to whom do I belong? 25887 And water?"
25887And were people present?
25887And what are they all?
25887And what does that mean?
25887And what is the day called on which you do no work?
25887And what is the second month called?
25887And what is the water wanted for?
25887And where is the big pointer now?
25887And which day in the week is that?
25887And which of you two is the strongest?
25887And who is that?
25887And, Lola... your soul? 25887 And-- who is si meant for?"
25887Are you pleased that you know more than other dogs?
25887Are you sure?
25887Are you sure?
25887Are you sure?
25887Are you_ sure_ of the name?
25887Arithmetic?
25887Because I am pleased?
25887But do n''t you know quite well that I do_ not_ like it?
25887But do you understand the sentence?
25887But do you understand this:_ il faut que je travaille_?
25887But what am I to see?
25887But what do I smell of?
25887But, where are you going to get it from-- can you tell me that?
25887Did you hear people say that?
25887Did you learn that word from me?
25887Did you mean my friend?
25887Did you mean that you did not understand me?
25887Dir( from you)"Have you heard me say it?"
25887Do I tease Lola? 25887 Do you dogs always know by smell?"
25887Do you know how many? 25887 Do you know now?"
25887Do you know the name?
25887Do you like to listen to us when we sing?
25887Do you remember''Uncle''s''name?
25887Do you want to give me money?
25887Do you_ like_ that smell?
25887Em..."What does that mean?
25887Frau Dr. Moekel:''Bed? 25887 Frau Dr. Moekel:''But where do you sleep?''
25887Frechi? 25887 From his wife?"
25887From where?
25887Good,I said, adding:"What is the first letter?"
25887Has a stone one?
25887Have I a soul?
25887Have all dogs?
25887Have we seen this animal?
25887Have you no pity for any man or animal?
25887Have you no pity?
25887Here at home?
25887How did this happen?
25887How did you come by the feather?
25887How did you get them?
25887How do I smell to- day?
25887How do I smell?
25887How long is this lower edge?
25887How many boys?
25887How many children will you have?
25887How many dogs are there in this room?
25887How many hours are there in 240 minutes?
25887How many letters are there in this word?
25887How many of them are women?
25887How many weeks has a year?
25887How many?
25887How much are 225 Pfennige?
25887How_ strange_?
25887I am to look and see where you have a pain?
25887Ich am esen..."What?
25887In the woods?
25887In your head?
25887Is it a dog''s word?
25887Is that quite correct?
25887Is that right?
25887Is the wet grass nice?
25887Is there a goat(= ziege) near here?
25887Is this what you mean?
25887Lola, do I smell different to- day?
25887Lola, how much of a Mark are 50 Pfennige? 25887 Lola,"I continued,"how does Betty smell?"
25887Lola,I said,"do I sometimes smell horrid?"
25887Lola,I said,"do you know what is meant when I say--_je veux manger_--do you understand that?"
25887Lola,said I,"whatever is there about that house-- do you notice anything?"
25887Nach Angst(= of anxiety)"And anything more?"
25887No-- a f."And what more?
25887O w e."We?
25887Of what were you frightened, of people?
25887On the jacket?
25887Only those whom you know well?
25887Raking the garden, reckoning, writing or reading?
25887So it is to be: ich esse wie ich mag?
25887Spöttische?
25887Taking honour about what?
25887Taub?
25887Tell me the name of the surogat?
25887Tell me what it is you do n''t understand about me? 25887 Tell me, Lola, of all the people you know, who has the most sorrows?"
25887Then is the cat right if she kills you?
25887Then of what?
25887Then tell me the hour first,I said, and she rapped:"10;""And now the minutes?"
25887Then what is it called?
25887Then what is it?
25887Then what should it be?
25887Then what should it be?
25887Then why are you answering so badly?
25887Then why did you say that?
25887Then why do you always do it again and again?
25887Then you mean aufgeregt?
25887Then you want to say that''dresf''is on the jacket?
25887Then, if you know hers-- do you know the sounds made by every one?
25887To whom do you belong then?
25887To whom does this hat belong?
25887Travailler?
25887Und ausgen..."Go on?
25887Was: warum ich und sie so rau reartet(= why are I and you so roughly constituted?) 25887 Well, what is it to be?"
25887Well?
25887Wenig essen?
25887Were you in the grass or in the woods?
25887What am I to say?
25887What did you want to do with the poor cat?
25887What do you like best to eat?
25887What do you want to have?
25887What does_ taun_ mean? 25887 What dog?"
25887What has given you a headache?
25887What has water to do with''ear''?
25887What is 14--is it an hour?
25887What is Kätchen doing at the stove?
25887What is it?
25887What is that-- singing?
25887What is that? 25887 What is the colour of the woods now?"
25887What is the meaning of''lif''? 25887 What is the question?
25887What is this 1 to mean, Lola-- is it yes or no?
25887What is uzi? 25887 What is wrong about it?"
25887What is_ oath_ to mean?
25887What means?
25887What number is this day?
25887What should it be?
25887What worries you?
25887What? 25887 What?"
25887Where did we see it?
25887Where does the rain come from-- Lola?
25887Where have you a pain?
25887Where is 50 grammes?
25887Which is saying it-- the dog or the child? 25887 Which word should be different?"
25887Which?
25887Who is si?
25887Who is to go?
25887Who then?
25887Who told you that?
25887Who?
25887Whose Henny am I?
25887Why did you run away?
25887Why did you say_ droif_?
25887Why difficult?
25887Why ever are you so pleased?
25887Why not?
25887Why not?
25887Why wo n''t you count?
25887Why?
25887Why?
25887Why?
25887Will you do more here?
25887With dogs?
25887With every one?
25887With horses too?
25887Yes, 4;"What should it be?"
25887Yes, tell me?
25887Yes? 25887 You ca n''t do so?"
25887You meant like the exclamation--''O weh''?
25887You remember that I told you that the hour is divided into 60 minutes?
25887You see, the little thick pointer is now pointing to_ nine_, so it is 9 o''clock; what time will it be when it points to 4?
25887You want to know what_ oho_ means?
25887You wo n''t tell me?
25887[ 16]In the house?"
25887[ 18]How much are 1,000 grammes?"
25887[ 24]Can you read that?"
25887_ Ausdawer?_ Is n''t there a letter wrong?
25887_ Ausdawer?_ Is n''t there a letter wrong?
25887_ How did it happen_? 25887 _ Lügen_?"
25887_ Please tell me_?
25887_ What?_I exclaimed,"you are suddenly addressing me as_ sie_?!
25887_ What?_I exclaimed,"you are suddenly addressing me as_ sie_?!
25887_ no!_"Why?
25887d r e s f."And what is n e?
25887g e r e g t"afgeregt? 25887 how many have been taken( for it)?
25887ich er( rather reluctantly)... or..."Well----? 25887 ich gut ura?"
25887( Herbst= autumn, so we usually call her Spring)"What''s the name of this girl?"
25887( Herr Dr. Ziegler)"Then why did you tell a story just now?
25887( or orders to stop the foot at the right time?)
25887( tier= animal)"_ An animal_?
25887( weh= pain)"Like pain?"
25887(= They laugh-- why?).
25887(= great, or strong jealousy)"So you smell what I feel and when it changes?"
25887(= to be silent)"_ What_?
25887(= where is the wood?)
25887(= who monkey?)
25887(= you have eaten little?)
25887(_ the second_)"What should it be?"
25887--"Zu wenig has-- who?"
258871 December:"Lola, what will become of you when you are dead?
258871 January, 1917:"What is to- day?"
2588710 January: To- day we returned to the foregoing conversation:"Tell me what you do n''t understand about me?"
2588711+ 15+ 2?
2588715 April: On this day the written question was put to her:"Why does Lola like going in the woods?"
2588715 June: A lady has come to stay with me for a few days and I said to Lola:"Why do you like Fräulien Grethe?"
2588717 May: In the presence of my friend and of two dogs I asked her--"Lola, why do n''t you like Dick?"
2588718 December: Lola looked as if she had been crying, so again I said:"What is the matter, Lola?"
2588719 April:"Lola,"I asked,"what was it that ran away from you on the meadow?"
2588724+ 32?
2588725 June: Lola had been brought indoors-- away from her young family, and I said:"Is there anything you would like to have in the stable, now think?"
2588727 July: To- day I invited her to tell me something she might be thinking about, adding:"Will you say something?"
258873 June:"Will you work now?"
2588730 August: To- day I asked Lola:"Do you wish every one to marry and have children?"
2588731 December:"Lola, have you got worms?"
258874 December: To- day I said to Lola:"Why do n''t I understand dog- language?
258876 September:"Lola, why did you bite Jenny, yesterday?"
258878 September:"Why are you not eating your food?
25887= 1 zentner I then explained this carefully and questioned her at once:"How many pounds are 375 grammes?"
25887A little later I said:"Do you belong to me Lola?"
25887After a little while we asked him again--''5 plus 5?''
25887After a pause I asked again:"Why are you getting so thin, Lola?"
25887And I then asked her:"Do you know what a soul is?"
25887And again,"Intelligence in others"?
25887And again:"How many minutes has a quarter of an hour-- that is, an hour divided by 4?"
25887And in thus probing the depths of our own subject do we not come up against those weightier questions which are of Cosmic importance?
25887And, in this matter, have we to concede so much to our higher animals?
25887And--"4^ 2=?"
25887Answer: left paw 2, right paw 7; and again,"6 × 6=?"
25887Answer:''5,''and''[ 10,000rt]- 87?''
25887Both on our way back, and when we got home I returned to the subject, saying:"What was on that notice- board?"
25887But Lola merely ordered me"to work"--"What am I to work at?"
25887But in five minutes she was back, looking anything but pleased;"Well, did n''t you like it?"
25887But is there anything more?"
25887But that same evening, when I was sitting reading, Lola came and rapped my hands-- inquiring--"wer afe?"
25887But the next day the dog''s master called again and complained of Ilse, saying:''What do you think of this?
25887But why had this remark occurred to her yesterday?
25887But, do we study astronomy for mere_ practical_ reasons?
25887But, the question is-- how could Lola have known that there would be nine?
25887Did you think I should be pleased to think you meant me?..."
25887Does not Nature here fix man''s eye with her own gaze-- granting him new riches?
25887First I asked:"How many days are there in a week?"
25887Fraulein Kindermann asked her:"What animal''s feather is that?"
25887Have you to sleep on the wood behind the stove?''
25887Having, therefore, removed the chart on Sunday, I asked her on Monday:"How many months has the year?"
25887Her answers were invariably right now for, by way of test, I inquired:"How many minutes are there in half an hour?"
25887Here is an example, the date being 31 May: I put the question:"12 Mark less 4 Mark 10 Pfennige?"
25887Here is an example: 20+ 14?
25887How do you do it?"
25887How often in trouble and in sorrow have we not found relief in a dog''s sympathy, and been glad to call it a friend in our sufferings?
25887I addressed her with evident displeasure in my voice, saying:"Have you any excuse to make for such behaviour?"
25887I asked her,"14,""12,""15"?
25887I asked her,"from_ here_ to_ here_?"
25887I asked,"would you like to be a human being?"
25887I avoided looking at it again and merely asked,"Tell me, does it look friendly, or angry, or nice?"
25887I continued:"And now?"
25887I could hardly believe it, so I asked her:"four?"
25887I could make nothing of it and asked her again--"What_ is_ deresf?"
25887I cried,"Is there no way of putting it right again?
25887I cried,"there must be some minutes as well?"
25887I enquired of Lola--"Will there be sun to- day?"
25887I had seen none about, but asked her again:"Where is the goat?"
25887I often put my question thus:"7 × 4=?"
25887I put some further questions to him, and Frau von Moers particularly asked him:''Is Lola clever?
25887I queried; she rapped"n.""How many of these letters belong to the first word?"
25887I questioned her more closely, so as to get at the meaning of this enigmatical remark:"What''in ear''?"
25887I repeated this several times and then asked:"How do you rap fifteen?"
25887I said to Lola at once:"You were wrong, it was not Frieda, but the new maid-- what is her name?"
25887I said to her:"Tell me what is delighting you so to- day?"
25887I said,"and what is_ this_?"
25887I said:"Are you lazy?"
25887I said:"How many days has March?"
25887I said:"Into how many parts are the day and night divided?"
25887I said:"What is the colour of the stove in this room?"
25887I showed her a book belonging to my father and said:"Whose book is this?"
25887I then asked:"What bones do you like best-- deer, hares, wuzl"( this is her own name for a pig),"or ox?"
25887I then dropped the subject, and tested her on the morrow:"What is to- day?"
25887I then said to Lola:"Tell me the hour?"
25887I then said:"How much is two and five?"
25887I then showed her another biscuit, saying"Is this too from Mama?"
25887I then showed her the weights, placing them in a row before her, naming them again and saying:"Which is the heaviest?"
25887I thought I had misunderstood her, so repeated--"haue?"
25887I urged,"how can it be put right?"
25887I wanted to get to the bottom of it, so returning to the attack, said:"Why would n''t you tell me yesterday what water is good for?"
25887I will now only add what has so far come to my notice accidentally: On 4 October, 1916, I said:"Lola, do you like to smell people?"
25887I wo n''t be angry; do I smell of lies?"
25887If it_ does_"fit in"ought we, then, to dismiss it?
25887Ilse-- have you a bed?''
25887In astonishment I continued:"How many centimetres are there to the metre?"
25887In astonishment I said:"From whom have you got that word?"
25887In surprise I asked him:''Well, Rolf, do you know what two plus two amounts to?''
25887In the course of the afternoon, Lola, who had gone with me to tea at B. L.''s, was shown some pictures:"What is that?"
25887In the evening I said:"Lola, what_ is_ it you do n''t understand about me?"
25887Is Lola to learn?''
25887Is it not the same thing with all subjects that open up a new point of view?
25887Is n''t one letter wrong?"
25887Is there intelligence in the dog, or is the intelligence in others?
25887Is this not often_ spiritually_ the case between man and man?
25887It was constructed thus: I would ask him, for instance,''Rolf, how many taps with your paw are you going to give me for_ a_?''
25887Later I said:"Lola, do you like being with me?"
25887Later in the afternoon Lola was in a state of great depression;"What is the matter?"
25887Lola began again----"..."and again added"no...""Do n''t you know her name?"
25887Lola sniffed all the hamper over, then jumped about and wagged her tail joyfully-- so I inquired:''Do you know who the hamper is from?''
25887Lola solved the following problems:"1/5+ 1/3=?"
25887Lola was bright and fresh and this encouraged me to continue:"What does Magda smell like?"
25887Next day she was asked in writing:"What did Lola see swimming in the water?"
25887Now this was quite incomprehensible, so I said:"What do dogs feel when they look at the eyes and see the sorrows of people?"
25887Now, this was wrong, so I said:"Yesterday was the 14th, so what is to- day?"
25887Numbers?
25887Of those then put by me I still call to mind the following:''24 ÷ 3- 3?''
25887On 5 October I asked:"Lola, do I smell the same?"
25887On this date I returned to the subject, and said to Lola:"Why do dogs go to people when they see them in sorrow-- what is it they then want?"
25887Once I asked-- by way of experiment--"What is this?"
25887One put to her in this manner was:"2+ 3?
25887Question:"What coins do you know?"
25887Rolf rapped with one paw only, as has already been stated; one was, therefore, obliged at length to put the question to him:"1 or 10?"
25887Say''we are happy''otherwise I shall think you are telling me stories: now_ why_?"
25887She could soon answer such questions as--"3^ 3=?"
25887She soon had this all so firmly fixed in her little head that I was able to put her to easy sums and ask:"What is 3 x 3+ 10- 5?"
25887She was very eager and giving her undivided attention to the work, so I continued:"What day is to- day?"
25887Single letters?
25887So Frau Dr. Moekel asked the dog:''Ilse, are you really sorrowful?''
25887So I asked for fun:"Do you remember that I showed you the yard- stick?"
25887So I continued:"Name the second day in the week?"
25887So I discounted the"g"and the"no"and said:"It should be''f''--shouldn''t it?"
25887So I kept to such questions as--"What will be the day of the week on such and such a date?"
25887So I put the card aside and said:"What is the second word?"
25887So at length to make sure, I fetched my riding- whip and gave her a light flick, saying--"Is that what you want?"
25887So she said:"Re jagen und has....""And a third?"
25887The laughter elicited by this statement appeared to offend Rolf, for he promptly spelt out the query:''di lagn warum?''
25887The letter:"Dear, certainly Irene is very nice to me"... then"were"..."What''s the meaning of that?"
25887The next day I asked her"where is my friend living now?"
25887The next day, after having done a few sums to please some friends who were present, she was asked:"Who is the dog in the room?"
25887The next day:"Now tell me your answer as to why you are living?"
25887The old man was delighted when, on my suggestion, Lola spelt out his name: she rapped"Wilem,"and when I said:"Did you hear that from me?"
25887The questions were practised in the following manner:--"How do you rap 3/8, 12/6?"
25887Then I began:"What about to- day?"
25887Then I said:"Six oxen are in the stalls-- how many legs have six oxen?"
25887Then I struck"c,"saying,"What note is that?"
25887Then I thought I would change the subject and asked her:"Why did Geri sigh so outside the door last night, and why does he look so unhappy to- day?"
25887Then Lola began wagging her tail near to the door, so I asked:"Who was outside?"
25887Then a number was described and I said:"Twice this number makes?
25887Then"Why are you looking at me so crossly?"
25887Then, holding up four fingers, I ventured with the question:"How many fingers do I show?
25887Then--"Where is the 100 grammes?"
25887There are thirty cows in the stalls; ten of those cows go to graze, and two cows have been killed, how many cows remain in the stalls?"
25887Therefore, without holding out my hands, I asked her:"How many make six?"
25887This big pointer starts at 12, and you see that there are five little strokes up to 1, and how many up to 2?"
25887Two days later she was asked in writing:"How many dogs can reckon and spell?"
25887Was it suggestion then from one unconscious to another?
25887Was the praise, or were the rewards inadequate?
25887We now continued:"1 and 3?"
25887What am I to do with that word; the sentence is not complete, is it?"
25887What, indeed, had been"transmitted"to them?
25887When I got home in the evening I asked Lola:"Is it nice here?
25887When I showed her the portrait of my son Karl and asked--''Of whom is this a picture?''
25887When he arrived I said to her:"Who is this?"
25887When she knew how to calculate time, I put the following question to her:"How many minutes are there in an hour and a half-- less thirty minutes?"
25887While"7+ 4?"
25887Words?
25887Yet, is this not equally true in the case of teaching children?
25887[ 24]"Who are you?"
25887_ do_ tell me?"
25887_"No!_"8/20 Mark?"
25887and she tapped in reply:"36/ w";"and the next?"
25887and the reply would be-- left paw 2, right paw 8: then:"9 × 3=?"
25887and what has that to do with you?
25887and what more?"
25887are you saying_ sie intentionally_ now?"
25887but why?"
25887did n''t you wish to add something more?"...
25887did you run against a tree?"
25887do I belong to you?"
25887do n''t I hear enough of it from senseless labourers and maids?
25887do you know one?"
25887do you know what that is?"
25887do you mean music?"
25887do you mean''when you ran''?"
25887etc., and I followed this up with easy exercises such as:"How much is 2/8+ 1/4?"
25887go on?"
25887have you had good food at father''s?"
25887have you heard of it?"
25887have you promised that to each other?"
25887how can honour be made good again?"
25887how is it you always know when my friend is coming?
25887is it bad?"
25887may this not be your true vocation?
25887ought this not to be a''d''?"
25887said I,"did you_ feel_ what I was thinking?"
25887she said:"Then tell me what the weather will be to- day?"
25887surely the_ o_ should be a_ t_?"
25887tell me something every day: what is it now?"
25887tell me why you have been crying?"
25887the end of the sentence you began before?"
25887this being given with"1 r"( pause)"1 r"( another pause);"and the denominator?"
25887this is what I have brought for you; what is it?''
25887to which the answer-- quite wide of the mark-- was--"wo wald?"
25887what does the little thick pointer say now?"
25887what will become of your body?"
25887who do you like best of all people and animals?"
25887why do you and Frechi always bite one another when you are allowed to go loose?"
25887you have always called me_ du_ because you were fond of me-- isn''t that so?
25887you mean to say you do n''t know?"
11896''What birds do you choose to be, that you may always live in the forest together?'' 11896 ''Why does n''t he move?''
11896''_ Skin!_''What is that?
11896A bird? 11896 A pair?"
11896Ah, mammy, mammy,cried Olive, Dodo, and Nat together,"how did you know that we should be hungry now, and we are simply famishing?"
11896And does Olive know all the flowers,chimed in Dodo,"and will you tell us about everything?"
11896And does his mate understand that the drumming is meant to call her?
11896And does n''t he sing a song like the other birds when he makes his nest?
11896And the under parts of the last four-- what general color are they?
11896And what are the others-- the Loons and Grubs-- are they wading or swimming birds?
11896And when do they go away again?
11896Are Geese Ducks?
11896Are Gulls and Terns related?
11896Are Storks and Cranes cousins of the Herons?
11896Are all feathers like this one?
11896Are all those nasty things in sausages?
11896Are ants very bad things if they do n''t get into the sugar?
11896Are n''t they any relations of Swallows?
11896Are the Gulls still nesting, Uncle Roy? 11896 Are the birds different down there?"
11896Are the game birds tree birds, or what?
11896Are the small ones the females, or are there two kinds of Crows?
11896Are there any Owls in these woods, Uncle Roy?
11896Are there any more water birds that we are likely to see this fall?
11896Are there any other birds besides Gulls that nest on the island, Uncle Roy?
11896Are there many kinds of Woodpeckers in North America?
11896Are there no bright- colored birds that live all winter where the trees are bare?
11896Are they all plain red or only red in a ring around the seeing part where mine are blue?
11896Are they cannibal birds that can eat other birds and mice?
11896Are you going to tell us about many more birds in the Finch family, Uncle Roy?
11896Are you growing sleepy?
11896Are you holding your knowledge tight in your pockets, or whistling to keep from telling it?
11896As if something was saying''shirk- shirk''?
11896Bonnet Martyr? 11896 But Johnny Wren works too, does n''t he?"
11896But how are a bird''s wings like fore legs, when they have n''t got any paws or toes-- or fingers-- or claws-- only just long feathers?
11896But how can they fly so far?
11896But if Shrikes eat birds, are n''t they very bad Citizens?
11896But if there is a law is some places and not in others, why do n''t the birds that travel get shot when they go about?
11896But is n''t there anything besides animals and vegetables that they might be? 11896 But is not the mill close to the pond?"
11896But the birds that can eat seeds and other things do not travel so far, do they?
11896But the young birds who have been hatched up here-- how do they know about going the first time?
11896But this is not all-- what becomes of the young birds? 11896 But what do they find to eat when everything is frozen stiff?"
11896But what is''plumage,''Uncle Roy?
11896But why is he called_ Myrtle_ Warbler?
11896But would n''t the milk be good if the cows were not pretty, and there was no spring in the pasture?
11896By and by, on the beach; but what if a frog or an eel should touch your foot, or a sharp straw stick in it-- are you enough of a boy not to scream?
11896Ca n''t we go in now to ask Uncle Roy the names of these birds, and see if he wo n''t begin our book this afternoon?
11896Can Ducks fly?
11896Can I open the door?
11896Can Rap go with us-- for he hardly ever gets down to the shore?
11896Can any of them sing?
11896Can birds hear through that?
11896Can you always tell a Sea Duck from a River Duck by the feathers-- or how?
11896Children, shall we have a Liberty Festival this morning? 11896 Colony?
11896Could n''t we go very soon, uncle? 11896 Could n''t you begin with the dear singing birds and end with the far- away clumsy diving ones?"
11896Could n''t you write a_ little_ book for us, uncle-- just a common little book, all in plain words?
11896Did I say four Herons?
11896Did I tole you dat I know''d whar dere''s a possum? 11896 Did he seem to say''_ Teacher_, TEACHER, TEACHER''?"
11896Did he sing or only call? 11896 Did he walk with one foot after the other, or hop with both feet together?
11896Did somebody named Martin find it, as Mr. Wilson found the Thrush they named after him?
11896Did the birds hatch?
11896Did the children throw sticks at the birds, or the birds pelt the children?
11896Did they ever do that in our Orchard?
11896Did they say anything about the Bird Brotherhood?
11896Did you ever see a Woodcock?
11896Did you ever see one alive, Uncle Roy?
11896Did you hear it sing?
11896Did you hear the Night Herons calling as you came up?
11896Did you never hear the''Wrens''duet''? 11896 Do Wrens and Mockingbirds belong to the same family?"
11896Do either of them ever nest up the river?
11896Do feathers keep on growing all the time, like my hair?
11896Do many of these birds nest near our beach?
11896Do many sicknesses come from not eating enough?
11896Do n''t all birds sit on a perch when they go to sleep?
11896Do n''t nails grow on the ends of toes? 11896 Do n''t you remember?"
11896Do n''t you think, Doctor, that this nest is very thick underneath?
11896Do the Barn Swallows that are making nests in the hayloft go as far south as Kingbirds?
11896Do these Wrens look like our kind and act that way?
11896Do they all belong to the same family?
11896Do they build here?
11896Do they build nests in trees?
11896Do they live up in the trees where they sing?
11896Do they stay around all the year?
11896Do they still nest on Round Island?
11896Do they work when they are through playing?
11896Do you mean berries, please, uncle?
11896Do you remember how the little Brown Creeper propped himself against the tree when he looked for insects?
11896Do you see any birds in that meadow of long grass?
11896Do you think he was, uncle?
11896Do you think you will remember the Chickadee, while he is in the deep woods nesting this summer, so that you will know him again in the autumn?
11896Do_ all_ birds eat bugs and such things?
11896Does he build high up in a tree?
11896Does he build his nest in myrtle? 11896 Does he build in chimneys?"
11896Does he feel the cold weather very much? 11896 Does he never sleep?"
11896Does he wish to show you his deep narrow nest, made of grape- vine bark, old leaves, and grass? 11896 Does it sing well?
11896Does the Creeper stay here all summer?
11896Does this Kinglet lay two little white eggs, like the Hummingbird?
11896Does this bird make any noise, and why is he called the Whip- poor- will?
11896Does this hateful Cowbird over sing?
11896Feathers and bones for building birds?
11896Has the Great Blue Heron pretty feathers like a Bluebird?
11896Have I seen any yet?
11896Have they any other song?
11896Have we used up all the Blackbird family?
11896Have you got a Hummingbird''s nest on your farm, and a Swallow chimney?
11896Have you seen his nest?
11896How are his eyes red, Uncle Roy?
11896How big would you call it?
11896How can birds possibly work to help people?
11896How can fish run when they have no legs?
11896How can it sit on them all at once and keep them warm enough to hatch?
11896How can the little Ducks get down to the ground-- do their wings grow strong very soon?
11896How can they get away if any one hunts them?
11896How did you get out of the barn, sir?
11896How did you know that Robin from all the others?
11896How did you know that?
11896How do they make the sticks stay in the chimney? 11896 How do_ you_ know?"
11896How does he make that queer noise?
11896How does it catch fish?
11896How far is it?
11896How is that, Uncle Roy? 11896 How late at night does the Wood Thrush sing?"
11896How long is he? 11896 How long is my finger?"
11896How many did you condemn as really bad cannibals?
11896How much does she ask for them?
11896How would you like to go down to the seashore to- morrow, little folks?
11896I began by asking, Where do we find this bird? 11896 I can see why they go south,"said Rap, after thinking a few moments,"but why do they come back again?
11896I know it-- I made it!--Would you think it?
11896I will go down and ask your mother to let you come and hear the stories with the other children-- how would you like that, Rap?
11896I wonder if you fed them with cod- liver oil and licorice lozenges if their voices would be better?
11896I wonder what makes the water go in and out?
11896If they eat seed, why do n''t they stay here all winter?
11896If you please, Doctor, which of the birds that sing will you begin with?
11896In a few weeks we must be off-- how have you enjoyed the summer?
11896Is it a pistol to shoot birds? 11896 Is it made of plant- down, too?"
11896Is n''t he a Warbler?
11896Is n''t it lovely?
11896Is n''t it pretty?
11896Is n''t it very hard to tell young Night Herons from Bitterns?
11896Is n''t it very stupid to sit there so long?
11896Is n''t it wise the ways things are fixed?
11896Is n''t that a Nuthatch now?
11896Is n''t the Great White Owl one of these?
11896Is that Veery only visiting here, or will he build a nest?
11896Is that bird a Warbler?
11896Is that some kind of a cousin?
11896Is there a law about killing birds?
11896Is there only one kind of Crossbill in North America?
11896Long- eared Owl, what have you to say?
11896May I come too?
11896May I go down to buy them?
11896May not we men have some too?
11896May we go to see the Herons some day? 11896 May we see the book you are writing, Uncle Roy, and learn all about the birds out of it?"
11896Nighthawks?
11896Now the next sort of food-- meat, the flesh of animals-- oxen, sheep, pigs, and poultry-- what do they feed on?
11896Now what is there that preys upon all this vegetable life-- upon every plant, from the grass to the tree, destroying them all equally?
11896Of course it is n''t,said Dodo;"it has n''t any feathers on its beak or on its feet, else how could it eat and hop about?"
11896Oh, where do they go, and what for?
11896Oh, yes, a round swelled- up place; but what is the good of it?
11896One for the dish? 11896 Please tell us,"continued Rap,"how many different kinds of Ducks there are in our country?"
11896Please, Doctor, does he sometimes fly right up in the air to sing a little bit and then go back into the bushes as if he had changed his mind?
11896Please, Doctor, what is the name of the Bird family we are going to visit?
11896Please, Olive, wo n''t you tell us the table for the Chimney Swift now?
11896Please, Uncle Roy, can I go with Rap?
11896Please, Uncle Roy, what is a ventroquist?
11896Please, ca n''t I have my shoes off too?
11896Please, uncle, what birds are cannibals?
11896Please, what does iris mean? 11896 Please, what is a pot- hunter?"
11896Rails, what are they?
11896Rap says that August is a poor month for birds about here,said Nat to his uncle;"do you think there will be more of them down at the shore?"
11896Rap, have you ever noticed the difference between the sounds in a spring night and a night in autumn? 11896 River Ducks?"
11896See, Olive,said Dodo,"what is that down in the grass by the fence?
11896So some wood birds eat fish, as well as the Osprey that we saw at the beach; but how do they chew them, Uncle Roy?
11896So who would not welcome this bird, who pays his rent and taxes in so cheerful a manner, and thanks you with a song into the bargain? 11896 So you have changed your mind about House People?"
11896So you see, children, this miner knew a Rock Wren-- do you know a Jenny Wren?
11896So you_ have_ been eating other birds?
11896Something the way frogs''feet are?
11896Speaking of cold, I wonder what became of the ice that Dodo saw Mammy Bun cracking this morning?
11896Suppose we ask mammy to come and tell us about the Mockingbirds herself,said Olive,"May we, father?"
11896Talking? 11896 That is a good idea, my boy,"said the Doctor, who had finished his letters and was leaving his desk;"only what and where is the beginning?"
11896That is all very well in its way,said the Doctor,"but which one of you can imitate his song?"
11896That''s a Nighthawk-- don''t you remember the bird we heard early one morning in the river woods? 11896 The Hermit?"
11896The Olive- back?
11896The Robin?
11896The Veery?
11896The Wood Thrush?
11896The little round bunch that looks like soft green moss?
11896Then has n''t a bird got any legs, Uncle Roy, only just feet?
11896Then it is n''t wrong for people to kill these birds for food?
11896Then the Wood Pewee builds late, like the Cedar Waxwing and Goldfinch?
11896Then the very dark Gulls I have seen off our beach in winter are the young ones?
11896Then we sha n''t hear him sing or see his nest-- have you ever seen it, Uncle Roy?
11896Then when the new feathers come they are sometimes quite different from the old ones, and seldom quite so bright-- why is this, Nat?
11896Then why does n''t it all tip off into the sky?
11896These Tanagers are n''t very plenty about here-- are they, Doctor?
11896This is the bird I saw the first day I went to the orchard with Olive; but why is he called a Nuthatch?
11896Travel-- do birds travel?
11896Veeries? 11896 Was his breast plain or speckled?
11896Was this earth ever young, Doctor?
11896Wash clothes?
11896Watch him when he drops,said the Doctor;"do you not see that he does so with open wings?
11896Watching them to like them or to catch them?
11896Well, little boy,said Olive pleasantly,"what is your name, and what are you doing here?"
11896What a very sad noise they are making-- do you think they are afraid of us?
11896What are their names, and shall we see them here?
11896What are those birds over there?
11896What bird do you think Uncle Roy will tell us about first?
11896What birds will you begin with, please, Doctor Roy,said Rap,"the singers or the cannibals?"
11896What birds will you tell us about to- night?
11896What can be the matter with all those Sea Swallows on the other side of the island?
11896What can that be?
11896What did he call you? 11896 What do Wild Ducks eat?"
11896What do they eat, cones or little seeds?
11896What do they look like very near by?
11896What do you think those birds are doing, Rap,said Nat;"looking at themselves in the water or playing tag?"
11896What does the Osprey look like near to?
11896What does_ citizen_ mean?
11896What else did Mammy Bun tell you?
11896What family does he train with?
11896What guild does he belong to?
11896What happens when the Cowbird''s egg stays in the nest and hatches out? 11896 What has the Bluebird?"
11896What have mulberry trees to do with birds?
11896What is a Night Heron-- a cousin of the Nighthawk, who lives near the water?
11896What is a cannibal bird?
11896What is a com- pos- ite flower?
11896What is a drone, Uncle Roy?
11896What is a guild?
11896What is a hearing?
11896What is all this trouble about?
11896What is an architect?
11896What is he saying?
11896What is in that black case, uncle?
11896What is it? 11896 What is one thing that man and every other animal must have to keep him alive?"
11896What is that soft stuff?
11896What is that? 11896 What is that?"
11896What is the book you were reading when we came up?
11896What is the crop?
11896What is the whole of your name?
11896What is wooing?
11896What kind of eggs do they lay?
11896What makes all the different colors of birds, Doctor?
11896What trade does the Ovenbird belong to?
11896What was he doing-- feeding on the ground or in a tree? 11896 What was his general color?
11896What would you call it, Olive?
11896What''s that?
11896What''s that?
11896What''s that?
11896What_ is_ the matter?
11896When do the Summer Citizens begin to come back to their nesting places?
11896When do they dance?
11896When shall we ever see these Ducks?
11896Where did all these big birds come from?
11896Where did you find this bit?
11896Where do I live? 11896 Where does he belong?"
11896Where would the nest most likely be?
11896Who are the Wise Men?
11896Who are the people that pay him, Uncle Roy?''
11896Why did he go away last fall?
11896Why did n''t you say, Dodo, because there has to be something for the feathers to stick into?
11896Why do birds always build nests in spring?
11896Why do n''t they nest in trees up North?
11896Why do n''t we see swarms and swarms of them flying by?
11896Why do n''t you ask your father to buy you a whole book, instead of grubbing in rag- bags?
11896Why do people have business?
11896Why do they call this Warbler a''Redstart''?
11896Why do they travel so much, if they are only American birds?
11896Why do we want to hear about this bird if he lives so far north?
11896Why do you call the Bobolink a''harlequin,''Uncle Roy? 11896 Why do you call us Sandpipers, Uncle Roy?"
11896Why do you mostly have something nice for us to eat on bird- days?
11896Why does he jerk his tail so?
11896Why does n''t he get into evergreens or cedar bushes?
11896Why does n''t she let them out?
11896Why does this bird receive so much attention? 11896 Why is he called the Wood Thrush?"
11896Why is it called''Martin''?
11896Why is that?
11896Why is that?
11896Will the nests last after they are empty, Uncle Roy, so we can find some?
11896Will you please tell us why Ducks have such waddling legs?
11896Will you? 11896 Wo n''t you come up to breakfast with us, Rap?
11896Wo n''t you let us go up to the wonder room now and see all these Thrush cousins in a row?
11896Would n''t it be nice if we knew all that the animals and birds do, and could see what they see, besides being ourselves?
11896Would you call this Creeper mostly a winter bird?
11896Yes, an Oriole; but do you know what kind?
11896Yes, but how did they dance?
11896Yes, but that is no stranger, as far as looks go, than to find a flaming Oriole in the Blackbird family, is it? 11896 You are right, my boy,"said the Doctor, looking at him attentively;"and would you also like to know how this beautiful boat is made?
11896You said a lot of birds came last night,said Nat to Rap;"but how do you know that they came last night and where did they come from?"
11896A BONNET MARTYR AND A BLUE GIANT"You promised to tell us about four Herons-- please, who are the other two?"
11896An Eagle?"
11896And after dinner we can accept Olive''s invitation and make candy-- can''t we, Uncle Roy?"
11896And please, do they chew their food with the teeth you said they had?"
11896And what are those dark streaky birds over there?"
11896And will you tell Nat why you let yourself shoot birds when you wo n''t let him?"
11896Are Ostriches killed for their feathers, Uncle Roy?
11896Are n''t the brown ones Bitterns?
11896Are n''t the other little birds squeezed and uncomfortable?"
11896Are n''t you coming, uncle, and Rap too, to tell us about clams?"
11896Are n''t you one of the seven Wise Men of-- of-- I- forget- where?"
11896Are there any such things as water Swallows, Uncle Roy?"
11896Are there such things?"
11896Are they dry leaves blown about by the gust?
11896Are they rowers and coverts too?"
11896Are those Cowbirds too?
11896Brother Osprey?"
11896But if you kill a bird, of what use is its dead body to you?"
11896But now, what do you notice about this Sparrow''s feet?"
11896But see-- what do you think of this-- isn''t it a beauty?"
11896But the children said,''There is no war or hate in our forest; the birds meet-- why may not we?''
11896But what did I promise to tell you of to- day, children?"
11896But what do you suppose its feathers are for?"
11896But what is a''tree limit''?"
11896But what of that?
11896But where did I leave Mr. Jore- e Blur- re?"
11896But why is his name''Vireo''--does that mean anything?"
11896But why must I eat something, uncle?
11896But would any one refuse a mess of peas to a neighbor in the next house?
11896But, Nat, how can feathers make a bird lighter, when every one of them weighs something, and a bird has to carry them all?
11896But, Uncle Roy, why did people want to kill these good, food birds when they did n''t care to eat them?"
11896But,"he added, thinking of the way he had seen hens mope when they were moulting,"does it hurt birds to lose their feathers, uncle?"
11896CHAPTER XVI A TRIBE OF WEED WARRIORS( Containing both Soldiers and Quakers)"A new family?
11896Ca n''t I give him some of the dried huckleberries?''
11896Can you guess what it is?"
11896Can you tell a bird''s name without seeing it, only by one little cry?"
11896Can you tell me some of them?"
11896Did I not say that there were both Quakers and soldiers in it?"
11896Did I tole you dat I know''d whar dere''s a coon?
11896Did n''t you ever notice the dots all over the skin of a chicken?
11896Did you ever think of trying to cut off one of your fingers with your jack- knife, to see if you could do it, or how it is made?"
11896Do Herons nest on roofs and stand on one leg, Uncle Roy?"
11896Do n''t you know her?
11896Do n''t you remember Olive said so last week when she told us about all the grains?"
11896Do n''t you think Uncle Roy will tell us?"
11896Do n''t you think so, Dodo?"
11896Do the Crows care?
11896Do these birds eat people?"
11896Do they live about here?"
11896Do you hear that cry high in the air?"
11896Do you hear?
11896Do you know anything about this Dove, Rap?"
11896Do you know how many bad insects I eat?"
11896Do you know what it is, Olive?"
11896Do you realize, my lads, that we have been out two hours?"
11896Do you remember having ever seen, a Canary with such markings?"
11896Do you remember what I told you that rainy day in my study about this moulting or changing of feathers?"
11896Do you remember who the other two are?"
11896Do you think he has come out of a cage?"
11896Do you think he might be one of these Thrushes?
11896Do you think it can be any sort of a wild animal?"
11896Do you think that birds grow like potatoes and are dug out of the ground, or come off trees like apples?"
11896Do you think that is so?
11896Do you think that will do, and will uncle know his name?
11896Does Olive know about''nearly a thousand''?"
11896Even strong winter birds do n''t like the wind much-- do they, Doctor?"
11896Father, may we come in?
11896Female]"What was that?"
11896Golden Eagle, what is your bill of fare?"
11896Have birds any ears, Uncle Roy?"
11896Have n''t you watched them long enough to think it out?"
11896Have they any name?"
11896Have they any other name-- because I have never seen them catch bees?"
11896Have you forgotten that he does not belong to the Swallow family?
11896He grows reckless and says to his brothers,''What do we care?
11896He is such a bright yellow that gold is a good name for him, but what does''Finch''mean?"
11896He seems to be crying,''Where are you, dear?''
11896He should belong to a tropical country and have orchids and palms for companions-- but instead, where do we find him?"
11896How are they relations of Swallows?"
11896How could toes grow from legs without any feet between?
11896How do feathers grow, Uncle Roy?"
11896How do they ask their mates to marry them?"
11896How do you like that?
11896How is it that you have so many birds about your house?"
11896How long do you think it is?"
11896How many different kinds of birds do you think there are in''our America,''my little Yankee?"
11896How would you like for me to buy these birds and bring them here, so that you can see them, then-- then what?"
11896I do n''t know how I ever came to see him; but when I did, he looked so queer that he almost scared me, and I said to the miller,''Whatever is that?''
11896I wonder if Rap would invite me also?"
11896I wonder what they are saying?"
11896I wonder why she does it?"
11896I''ve whistled to birds ever since I could pucker up my lips, and father taught me how-- didn''t you, father dear?
11896If a Sparrow has a pair of feet that correspond to a mouse''s hind feet, what do you think a Sparrow''s wings correspond to in a mouse?"
11896If they eat those weed- seeds and do not need insects they can live here all winter-- can''t they, uncle?"
11896Is he named Ovenbird because he has a door in one side of his nest like an oven?"
11896Is it a bargain?"
11896Is it entirely covered with feathers?"
11896Is n''t he a relation of the Nuthatch, Doctor?"
11896Is that his song, Cousin Olive?"
11896Is that true, Doctor, or do they belong to some good guild?"
11896Is that what you call those birds?"
11896Is there a beam or little nook of any sort that will hold a nest?
11896Is there more to come, little one?"
11896Is there only one in his family?"
11896Marsh Hawk, where and how do you live?"
11896May I call Rap to tell him?
11896May I cut him a pair out of paper?"
11896Next week, perhaps?"
11896Now do you know them?"
11896Now do you wonder that I call this beautiful Snowy Egret the Bonnet Martyr?"
11896Now look again-- can you see anything else about the Sparrow''s beak?"
11896Now what do you call the end of your foot which is opposite the end on which the toes grow?"
11896Now you must answer the next question, Nat; what do toes grow on?"
11896Peabody?"
11896Please, can I have them?
11896Please, uncle, do n''t these birds have dreadful headaches very often?"
11896Really, really?
11896Soldiers and Quakers?
11896Suppose when the door opens they should get out and fly away?"
11896THE CHIMNEY SWIFT"Now, would n''t you like to see the big chimney?"
11896THE LOUISIANA TANAGER"Is n''t this the one I saw in your glass case, Doctor?"
11896Then why should you begrudge a few to neighbor B. Oriole?
11896Then you must try to answer the following questions:"How many inches long was he?
11896There are a few game birds in this glass case-- some Pigeons and Grouse; suppose we finish the morning in their company?
11896There are a great many different kinds of nests, are n''t there, uncle?"
11896There is a great flock of Gulls going off together-- are they beginning their fall journey?"
11896Those meddlesome House People have put two new pieces of glass in the hayloft window, and how shall I ever get in to build my nest?"
11896Though she does not sing to House People, how do we know but what she whispers a little lullaby like this, on stormy nights, to her nestlings?
11896Uncle Roy, what kind of birds are those calling away over in the marshes?"
11896What are all those black and brown birds walking round after the cows, just as chickens do?"
11896What are you taking the nest away for?
11896What are you waiting for?"
11896What did he say about the Brotherhood?"
11896What did you see, Nat?"
11896What do they set them on, and how do they perch while they are building?"
11896What do you mean?"
11896What do you think of this?"
11896What does he say-- for the song of two short bars surely has words?
11896What does that mean?"
11896What good are birds anyway?
11896What is a harlequin?"
11896What is bread made of?"
11896What is it?
11896What is its name, Uncle Roy?"
11896What is the matter with them, Uncle Roy?"
11896What more natural than that they should have a house close at hand in some tree whose wood is soft enough to be hollowed out?
11896What''s the matter-- what''s the matter?
11896When some one calls you in the garden, ca n''t you tell whether it is Dodo or Olive?"
11896Where are their nests, Doctor?
11896Where did you get it, Uncle Roy?"
11896Where is Olive?"
11896Where?"
11896Who can tell me the difference between a mouse and a Sparrow?"
11896Who comes next?
11896Who knows?
11896Why am I, without season or reason, sometimes rusty- red and sometimes mottled gray?
11896Why did n''t they fly instead of dodging about so-- are their nests in the reeds?"
11896Why do n''t they stay and build their nests down there?"
11896Why do they go there, Doctor?"
11896Why do we think that the male has the gayest feathers-- do you remember that also?"
11896Why do you call him that?
11896Why does n''t he belong to the Birds that Scratch?"
11896Why is it called the Vesper Sparrow-- what does Vesper mean, Uncle Roy?"
11896Why may you not meet some of these Ducks by the river, or see them swimming on the pond?
11896Why must you leave the farm?
11896Will you really let me come?
11896Would it be too far for you to come, sir?"
11896You all know what a cone is like, I think?"
11896You all know what a well- rounded, compact body a Duck has; do you remember having seen one carved, and how very hard it was to cut off its legs?"
11896You remember I told you that young birds usually wear plain feathers like their mothers?"
11896You remember the booming sound made by the wings of the Nighthawk, when the air whizzed through them?
11896You say, Rap, that you found one of these nests-- won''t you tell us about it?"
11896[ Illustration: American Crossbill]"How and where do you think these birds build their nests in such a cold season?"
11896a little blue and white bird like the one that bobs out of mother''s carved clock at home?
11896asked Dodo,"seeds or bugs or fish?"
11896asked Dodo;"the Wise Men?"
11896asked Nat;"and do any good?"
11896asked Nat;"in a tree or a bush?"
11896asked Nat;"what does it look like flying?"
11896asked Rap,"with the paddling birds or the swimming ones?"
11896called Olive;"has a bee stung you?"
11896cried both the children,"will you ask mother and father to come here for a little?
11896do clams grow in hills like potatoes?
11896interrupted Nat;"why, they do n''t look one bit alike-- how can it be, Uncle Roy?"
11896on the outside of the woods?
11896questioned Rap;"then are there different kinds of Ducks for rivers and lakes, and for salt water?"
11896said Dodo;"because if it was very cold would n''t berries freeze as hard as pebbles?"
11896said Nat;"it''s hundreds of miles; and how do they find the way?"
11896said Nat;"what is the reason for that?
11896the Herons are squawking again-- won''t you tell us about them now, Uncle Roy?"
11896what happens to whistling girls?"
11896what is the next thing you notice about this Sparrow?