Wolves, like cats and foxes, and indeed like most wild male animals, have an atrocious way of killing their own young when they find them unprotected; so the mother animal searches out a den by herself and rarely allows the male to come near it.

While I was employed in levelling the theodolite the gentlemen directed their steps to a flight of pelicans that was seen collected upon the beach; at their approach the old birds took wing and left their unfledged young, to the number of eighteen or twenty, waddling about the sand, all of which were killed and skinned before we embarked for the sake of their white down.

When Kelly was gone to practise on his accordion,he had opened a dancing academy at Fa'a,the octogenarian asked me if I had read of the recent achievements of the scientists who were making the old young.

You, hypocritical reader, who are now turning up your eyes and murmuring "horrid young man"examine

From the day I caught the idea, that a great secret in teaching the young was to teach through the senses, the various implements now in such general use in infant schools, were step by step invented by me.

Ye ne'er, like hapless human wanderers, throw Your young on winter's winding sheet of snow.

Plato said, many centuries ago: "The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be always carrying out your own principles in practice," and all the wisdom of the ancients is in the thought.

The fish or the crocodile will take care of her eggs jealously, and as soon as they are hatched, turn round and devour her own young.

Some have a personal, some a real meaning; as, in opposition to old, we use the adjective young of animated beings, and new of other things.