Once or twice his guests suggested shooting pigeons at sundown, but he always had some excuse for opposing the proposal, and thus the party, unsuspecting the reason, were kept away from that particular lonely spot.

I sit here at five o'clock, drink my cup of tea, feed the pigeons that light upon the railing, and have a half-hour in which to remember how great is England, and"with a bow"how much the rest of the world owes to her.

"At Devna we got wood-pigeons, and I rode the Roucan-nosed bay, and he carried me through it capitally.

[Footnote 14: I fancy the story, which so far as I know has not been traced, goes on to say that the basket was emptied from the house-top to send the pigeons flying, and so the ape got his neck broken.

Near this camp I saw the crested pigeon of Western Australia for the first time in this part of Australia.

Death is an easy way (when you hit a pigeon)

But noon they kept swallowing pigeon after pigeon, and seemed to consider themselves as completely fixtures as the grate or the chimney-piece.

But what's the regular lark you hinted at?" "Why, we'll go and seize the Gordonites' pigeons, and make another dish of them.

The next day, Sunday, Philip did not see how he could go to church or Sunday-schoolhe had not time, he said, but his mother agreed to watch the pigeons, and so his religious obligations did not need to be set aside.

There are few who have not observed a pigeon or a crow preserve, for some time, a horizontal flight without any apparent motion of the wings.

It was an anachronism to find along the trail of the forty-two centimeter guns warnings of death to persons harboring courier pigeons.

Zorro plucks a pigeon.

We had venison-steak, pork, ham, jerked venison stew, fresh trout, broiled partridge, cold roast duck, a fricassee of wood rabbits, and broiled pigeon upon our table, coming in courses, or piled up helter-skelter on great platters of birch bark, some on tin plates, and now and then a choice bit on a chip!

So when I saw this weak one staking his money against them, Betting upon the turn of the cards, I knew what was coming: They never left their pigeons a single feather to fly with.

A very straightforward plan is adopted in carving a pigeon: the knife is carried sharply in the direction of the line as shown from 1 to 2, entirely through the bird, cutting it into two precisely equal and similar parts.

That young lady was standing at the window, refusing to be comforted by her friend Fannywho had given her the pigeon, it will be rememberedand obstinately bent on proving to herself that she was the most wretched young lady who had ever existed.

At Shawneetown, where we lay a short time, I went out hunting about the mouth of the Wabash with one Hanlon, a native of Kentucky, who was so expert in the use of the rifle that he brought down single pigeons and squirrels, aiming only at their heads or necks.

THE PIGEON-HOUSE, OR DOVECOT.The first thing to be done towards keeping pigeons is to provide a commodious place for their reception; and the next is, to provide the pigeons themselves.

Mr. Wilkes observed the behaviour of Mademoiselle, who sighed indeed very piteously, and assumed every pathetick air of grief; but eat no less than three French pigeons, which are as large as English partridges, besides other things.

Turkeys, and a new variety of pigeon, having a brown back and slate-coloured breast, on the wing resembling a tame pigeon, congregate in flights sometimes of a thousand together; emus, cockatoos, quail, and parakeets are also very numerous, particularly the latter.

"I want pigeons!

These were the questions which Verty asked himself, standing in the October sunshine, and holding the wounded pigeon to his breast.

"Yes," observed Frank, "we're homing pigeons now, if any kind of bird.

Monday afternoon the Browns' back yard was full of little boys inspecting Philip's pigeons, not merely idle onlookers, but hard-headed poultry fanciers, as shown by the following entry: April 9th.

Rouge"The Plaint of the Weather-beaten Pine"The Menu at PayoleHurrah for the milk!DeparturesDivine musicAstéGabrielle d'EstrelleThe ivied ruinsThe church Pitton de TournefortGerdeThe pigeon trapsThe cattle market