In a journal of September 1914, a citizen of Senlis describes passing in a motor through the scene of the fight, immediately after the departure of the Germans, when the scavenging and burying parties were still busy.

Again the vulture is not so common as in South Africa, for here it is blind in this dense bush and has to play a very subsidiary part to the scavenging of lions and hyaenas.

We are not wanted in any part of the British Dominion except as Pariahs to do the scavenging for the European settlers.

One of these scavenging birds was seen to be carrying a long object, like an eel, in its mouth.

Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, were in flood as usual at that time of year, and the scavenging street curs had to swim from one garbage heap to the next.

See how the ratI mean our common, omnivorous, scavenging, thieving, poaching brown ratwhen it lives near a pond or stream, learns to swim and dive as naturally as a duck.

This hour I see with mortal eye as in one flash The whole divine democracy of things, And dare the stars to scorn a scavenge-heap.

They were, in fact, mean and squalid, begrimed with smoke and imperfectly scavenged.

In order that nothing shall be wasted, the Government decreed this year that the public should be allowed to scavenge the fields after the harvest had been gathered, and this was a source of some benefit to those residing near the great centres of population.