We have been trying to kill too many birds with one stone in our economic way; "to train the powers of observation," "to teach a child to express himself," "to help a child to gain useful knowledge about living things," have been the most usual aims.

There they saw beautiful birds of many bright colors, and beautiful flowers of all kinds.

He used to use it when a boy in catching birds by putting the briny compound on the tails of the same, and that he used to call "fun alive;" but he don't see itthe saltabout PUNCHINELLO.

But Sir Horace was in Scotland, shooting the poor birds.

If he could bring home a queer enough bird or beast for the collection, there was still hope.

There was a fence in that country shutting in a cattle range, and along its fifteen miles of posts one could be sure of finding a bird or two in every strip of shadow; sometimes the sparrow and the hawk, with wings trailed and beaks parted drooping in the white truce of noon.

What man who has smelled the first fragrance of the earth, has heard the birds on their northern flight and has seen an April brook upon its course, will withhold his credence even though the jest be plain?

The man in Indiana wanted to kill the magnificent male oriole who was feeding his young birds in the nest.

Sunlight and shadow, snow and ice, gloomy ravines and dazzling mountain tops, mayflowers and singing birds and rustling winds filled all the earth with color and movement and melody.

He knows the birds and beasts, and delights in what is wild.

Every day Martin ran down to the stream to gather flowers and shells; for many curious water-snails were found there with brown purple-striped shells; and he also liked to watch the small birds that build their nests in the rushes.

The latter said to his children: "As long as you live, never eat this bird.

On this day likewise they took a bird resembling a heron, of a black color with a white tuft on its head, and having webbed feet like a duck.

"Bella loves birds.

They climbed up onto the window sill, Ivra still holding the bird.

Too slowly; there was not sound enough to frighten a bird out of the belfry, had one been there to listen; but Aaron, on his knees within his study, praying for the gift of healing, that he might restore sick souls, would hear.

"And do you think that Witch pulled a good scare when she sent those angry birds to attack Dorothy and her friends?" said one of the wild creatures.

Then the merchants, scaring away the parent birds with shouts and outcries, would secure their treasures.

That means to follow a bird or an animal and watch them without them knowing anything about itsee?" He said, all excited like, "I can sneak up on 'em, so then can I have the badgefor sneakinglike you said?" Gee whiz, I just sat back and laughed.

Pluck and draw the birds, wipe them inside and out with damp cloths, and truss them in the following manner:Bring the head round under the wing, and the thighs close to the sides; pass a skewer through them and the body, and keep the legs straight.

She liked flowers, and I fixed a garden for her; she was fond of pets, and I got her a bird, a kitten, and a dog to play with her; she fancied gay colors and tasty little matters, so I filled her rooms with all the handsome things I could afford, and when it was done, I was as pleased as any boy, thinking what happy times we'd have together and how pleased she'd be.

They replied that it was only a man of extreme wickedness who could make it; and the king thereupon sent officers to seek everywhere for such a bad man; and they saw by the side of a pond a man tall and strong, with a black countenance, yellow hair, and green eyes, hooking up the fish with his feet, while he called to him birds and beasts, and, when they came, then shot and killed them, so that not one escaped.

1835 "Bombastes kept the devil's bird, Shut in the pommel of his sword, And taught him all the cunning pranks, Of past and future mountebanks.

All day at target practice, He'll never miss the bird.

"He was sittin' here wit' me all the afternoon, until about just before four I sent him over to Fulton Market to buy a bird.