Black and white is a very common bird colouring; black crows with white collars follow our camps and bivouacs to pick up scraps, and the brown fork-tailed kite hawks for garbage and for the friendly lizard too, in the hospital compound.

She ate little scraps of cold food left over from last night; she nibbled at a last bit of the slab chocolate; she filled a pot with snow gathered at the cave mouth and set it on the coals to get water to drink.

She began taking careful stock; she found a scrap of bread that had been knocked to the floor and kicked aside; she picked it up and, carrying a torch with her, began seeking any other fallen morsels.

and then would go on reading again a scrap here and a scrap there.

He held some scraps of paper in his hand, and appeared to be greatly agitated.

"Once, in the middle of the day, in the open country, just as the sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a bared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, and farther off alighted like white butterflies on a field of red clover all in bloom.

We feasted from sunset until sunrise, much after the fashion of the savages, for it made a fellow feel good to know from actual test that there was no longer any need of saving every scrap of food against that day when it might be necessary to fight and fast at the same time.

I don't know if perhaps they had been listening,at least standing as near as possible, to catch any scrap of the conversation.

We have got some scraps of China news; and what there is, seems to be pacific.

"What!" exclaimed the head-master, taking the scrap of paper, and glancing alternately from the mystic word to the boy's face"what on earth is this?

"With some scraps of paper I brought in my bag?" "Ohyou brought scraps?" "Yes.

On the present occasion, having accepted the situation into which his affection for his friend had led him, he had accepted it altogether, and behaved as though he were at a dinner party in Naples, cheerfully making conversation, telling amazing stories of brigandage in Sicily, asking Veronica questions about the surrounding country, and giving such scraps of news about mutual friends as his letters had recently brought him.

Still, the sneer at my graphic powers irritated mefor I am considered a good artistand, therefore, when you handed me the scrap of parchment, I was about to crumple it up and throw it angrily into the fire.

and the man, casting a swift glance to make sure that the boy at the door was not looking, pulled a scrap of dirty paper from his pocket, which was instantly seized and opened by the fisherman.

what are you doing?" Fletcher had produced a scrap of paper from his pocket, and was seemingly about to slip it under the door.

" Taking an envelope from his pocket, Mr. Clifton drew forth two small scraps of soiled and crumpled paper, one of which was the half of another envelope presenting very nearly the following appearance: As he pointed this out, he remarked: "Elwood is not so common a baptismal name, that there can be any doubt as to the person addressed.

Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over as an articled pupil; her duties being to talk French, as we have seen; and her privileges to live cost free, and with a few guineas a year, to gather scraps of knowledge from the professors who attended the school.

I don't know why I have foreborne writing so long; but it is such a forlorn hope to send a scrap of paper straggling over wide oceans.

" The chief tore the scrap of paper into minute shreds and dropped them on the grass.

That means I've got to leave with her every scrap of food we have between us.

He fumbled, and finally passed a scrap of the paper into the hand of the brakie.

The Boy, who had kept hanging about the dogs with unabated interest, had got up from the fire to carry them the scraps, when Nicholas called out quite angrily, "No! no feed dogs," and waved the Boy off.

' Lancelot heard many more scraps of this sort.

List of Full-Page Drawings "The pony bounded in terror while the Grizzly ran almost alongside" "Jack ate till his paunch looked like a rubber balloon" "'HoneyJackyhoney'" "Jack ... held up his sticky, greasy arms" The Thirty-foot Bear "'Now, B'ar, I don't want no scrap with you'" "Rumbling and snorting, he made for the friendly hills" Monarch List of The Chapters I. The Two Springs II.

Merry, where's the paper?" Olympia devoured the meager scrap and then dropped the journal on her knees.