By this we do not mean that you are to set up in business as a taxidermist, but that you are boundif a true sportsmanto protect the song birds, and the birds that are useful in destroying noxious vermin, and all the beautiful feathered creatures that ornament our woods, and fields, and parks, from the depredations of the ignorant, loutish, pestilent, pernicious pot-hunter.

Open the flower a little in places to remove the insects, which generally are found about the stalk, and let the cauliflowers lie in salt and water for an hour previous to dressing them, with their heads downwards: this will effectually draw out all the vermin.

They eat of every thing that is eatable, and we have even seen them eat vermin.

What a plague brings all this vermin?

But as you’d be dozing off to sleep a flea will wake you up, Which makes you curse the vermin in the old bark hut.

I now hear many curse it, who fed the vermin with poisonous weeds.

" Johnston, who has noticed so many odd superstitions, tells us that the tuberous ground-nut (Bunium flexuosum), which has various nicknames, such as "lousy," "loozie," or "lucie arnut," is dug up by children who eat the roots, "but they are hindered from indulging to excess by a cherished belief that the luxury tends to generate vermin in the head."

he called, "lay on, and thereafter will we hang these vermin to their own roof-trees and fire their hovels for a warning.

Without any pride but the pride of its race, The New Navy took its historical place In warfare on quite unconventional lines As hunting sea vermin or sweeping for mines, Till the sea would agree when a battleship swore That surely they'd helped an Old Navy before.

that's good to kill vermin; then belike, if I serve you, I shall be lousy.' Quy.

Whatsoever means, or no means at all, God used to produce those vermin, the miracle remains the same.

"The head of a wolf, dried and hanged up, will scare away vermin.

The dramatist Ravenscroft wrote an epilogue to Sertorius, in which he says that Our Poet to learnèd critics does submit, But scorns those little vermin of the pit, Who noise and nonsense vent instead of wit, and no doubt Bancroft had aims more professional than those of the professional playwrights themselves.

I seized the vermin, home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread: Slow crawled the snail, and, if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curious L. Oh, may this wondrous omen lucky prove!

The hour is coming when the peoples will shake off the vermin, the gods and masters by whom they have been deceived.

He bears the Habeas Corpus Act under his arm, but stands aghast and paralysed, it never seeming to have occurred to the artist that this "Monsieur John Boule, Esquire," was well adapted by his beetle-crushers to stamp out the vermin.

He took the vermin and flung it away.

And I will track this vermin to their earths; For tho' I ride unarm'd, I do not doubt To find, at some place I shall come at, arms On loan, or else for pledge; and, being found, Then will I fight him, and will break his pride, And on the third day will again be here, So that I be not fall'n in fight.

Our hearts absolutely sunk within us as we thought of the wretchedness of the interiors, the misery of being obliged to inhabit any one of the numerous suites of apartments rising tier above tier, and from which it would be absolutely impossible to banish vermin of every description.

You will believe me or not, I simply could not turn that vermin out into the street.

Next time that you do me the honour to come here I trust that we shall have cleared all these vermin from my estate.

They do not perhaps possess the outward beauty and distinction of type which would justify their being brought into general notice, but as workers they retain all the fire and verve that are required in dogs that are expected to encounter such vicious vermin as the badger and the fox.

"They believe that the ceremony fulfils the double object of exorcizing the vermin whose multiplication would be a real calamity, and of imparting fecundity to the trees, the fields, and even the cattle"; and they imagine that the more the ceremony is prolonged, the greater will be the crop of fruit next autumn.

A stable-keeper came and said, that two snakes had made their appearance in the stable; on which the Arab, being no more in the habit of fearing such vermin than a European farmer of fearing rats, proceeded towards the stable, and I followed him.