FOOTNOTES:[1]Mullet.[2]In a villa garden near Bombay Dr. Dimmock and myself found a tailor-bird’s nest built between two broad leaves neatly sewn together. Perhaps we looked too long at the pretty eggs to please the parent birds. Anyhow, during the night the birds managed to build another nest farther in through the shrubbery, and thither they had conveyed the eggs. Was this an instance of instinct or reason? Reason, I believe.[3]Captain Riou, who fell in this battle, was called the gallant and good by Lord Nelson in his despatches home to the Admiralty.[4]Cross pieces of wood and strings to prevent the dishes sliding off.[5]Both music and words of this bold song are generally ascribed to Henry Russell. The latter wrote the music; a young Scottish poet, M‘Lean, wrote the stirring words.[6]“Grimalkin,”Scottice= a cat.[7]“Old man.” The skipper of a merchantman is usually called so, whatever his age.[8]This is not the real name.[9]Alligator.[10]A species of poplar whose leaves are ever trembling; said, in Scotland, to be the tree on which our Saviour was crucified. Hence the quivering.
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[1]Mullet.
[1]Mullet.
[2]In a villa garden near Bombay Dr. Dimmock and myself found a tailor-bird’s nest built between two broad leaves neatly sewn together. Perhaps we looked too long at the pretty eggs to please the parent birds. Anyhow, during the night the birds managed to build another nest farther in through the shrubbery, and thither they had conveyed the eggs. Was this an instance of instinct or reason? Reason, I believe.
[2]In a villa garden near Bombay Dr. Dimmock and myself found a tailor-bird’s nest built between two broad leaves neatly sewn together. Perhaps we looked too long at the pretty eggs to please the parent birds. Anyhow, during the night the birds managed to build another nest farther in through the shrubbery, and thither they had conveyed the eggs. Was this an instance of instinct or reason? Reason, I believe.
[3]Captain Riou, who fell in this battle, was called the gallant and good by Lord Nelson in his despatches home to the Admiralty.
[3]Captain Riou, who fell in this battle, was called the gallant and good by Lord Nelson in his despatches home to the Admiralty.
[4]Cross pieces of wood and strings to prevent the dishes sliding off.
[4]Cross pieces of wood and strings to prevent the dishes sliding off.
[5]Both music and words of this bold song are generally ascribed to Henry Russell. The latter wrote the music; a young Scottish poet, M‘Lean, wrote the stirring words.
[5]Both music and words of this bold song are generally ascribed to Henry Russell. The latter wrote the music; a young Scottish poet, M‘Lean, wrote the stirring words.
[6]“Grimalkin,”Scottice= a cat.
[6]“Grimalkin,”Scottice= a cat.
[7]“Old man.” The skipper of a merchantman is usually called so, whatever his age.
[7]“Old man.” The skipper of a merchantman is usually called so, whatever his age.
[8]This is not the real name.
[8]This is not the real name.
[9]Alligator.
[9]Alligator.
[10]A species of poplar whose leaves are ever trembling; said, in Scotland, to be the tree on which our Saviour was crucified. Hence the quivering.
[10]A species of poplar whose leaves are ever trembling; said, in Scotland, to be the tree on which our Saviour was crucified. Hence the quivering.