The village detective soon coupled the feet of the missing pig with the unusual occurrence of a heap of bones before the door of the musician's abode, and by a process of reasoning unknown to the detectives of the present day, decided that those bones were a pig's bonesa stolen pig's bones, from the fact that the Piper did not earn enough to indulge in such luxuries as sucking-pigs.

If this artificial diet is used before the sixth month, it must be given through the sucking-bottle; after this period with a spoon: in either case it must be previously passed through a sieve.

(In connexion with walking along the ceiling is noticed the beautiful contrivance of the foot of the house-fly and gecko, and the head of the sucking-fish.

Panizzi doubts the possibility of these precocious private theatricals; but considering what is called "writing" on the part of children, and that only one other performer was required in the piece, or at best a third for the lion (which some little brother might have "roared like any sucking-dove"), I cannot see good reason for disbelieving the story.

And a deal of worry they be. 'Twasn't in the marriage contract, I think, as I should bottle-feed sucking-pigswas it now, Joseph?

he exclaimed, and as he spoke there was a queer sucking sound, and Ken felt the boat whirl away in the direction of the sinking steamer.

[Footnote 1: BlackfootEst'-st[)u]k-ki, suck-bite; from Est-ah-tope, suck, and I-sik-st[)u]k-ki, bite.]

So much so that at first he hardly noticed the curious sucking splash which came from the water some little distance to the left.

"a terrible sounda sort of low breathin', but fierce; an' something worse, a suck-suckin' of the mud below; an' I ran down.

The insect has a long, slender, flexible, sucking beak, which is thrust into the leaf or stem or fruit of the orange on which the "scale bug" lives, and through which the insect sucks the orange sap, which is its only food.

Be not so bitter; we are they indeede, That would deprive our fathers of their lives, So we were sure to have a benefit: I way no more the murthring of a child, Drag'd from the sucking bosome of his mother, Then I respect to quaffe a boule of wine, Unto his health, that dearely loveth me.