... made the notice
of the distribution of the various birds
through the Islands, which he has denoted
by the letters a, e, i, o, u
[1]
appended to
the name of each bird, necessarily faulty.
The ... in
marking the distribution of the birds
through the various Islands.
No doubt many of the birds included in
Professor Ansted's list were included
merely...
... little
mother, who in the spring of the year
uncorded all the bedsteads and made life
miserable for the festive bedbugs by an
application of whale oil from a capable
feather applied to the inside of ... of 1920 the Board of
Directors of the Pacific Coast Conference
of Unitarian Churches took note of the
honored by a period of service as
representative in...
... sullenly threw the towel upon the
rocks. His attitude was one of deep
dejection. The light seemed gone out of
the day and the glory from the golden sun.
Even the keen mountain air was devoid of
relish, ... stories—particularly " ;The Call
of the Wild" and its companion "White
Fang," " ;The Sea Wolf," " ;The Cruise of the
Snark,&qu...
... long the Merry Little
Breezes of Old Mother West Wind had
romped there among the asters and
goldenrod. They had played tag through
the cat rushes around the Smiling Pool.
For very mischief they ... shoulder. Then he started down
the Crooked Little Path. Half way down
he met Striped Chipmunk.
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Mother West
Wind's Children,
by Thornton W.
Bu...
... vigour.
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for no witness of their song, nor thirst for
human praise. They were all nesting now.
But if I heard them less, I saw much more
of them, especially of one individual, the
male bird of a couple that ... sparrow there, he
attacked and chased it away. It was a feast
of nightingales. An elderly woman of the
village explained to me that the
nightingales and other small...
... of the hill green-pigeon is
substituted. The harsh cries of the rose-
ringed paroquets give place to the softer
call of the slaty-headed species. The
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Birds of
the ... of the corby. Instead of the
crescendo shriek of the koel, the pleasing
double note of the European cuckoo meets
the ear. For the eternal coo-c...
... yet discovered the cause of the car's sudden loss of
power. But even as he spoke, the mystery was solved. There was
a leak in the petrol-tank, near the bottom; the last drop of essence
had ... [Ebook 23500]
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... dividend
by the coefficient of the divisor for the coefficient of the quotient, subtract the
exponent of each letter in the divisor from the exponent of the same letter in the
dividend for the exponent of ... rep-
resentation of numbers by letters. The solution of problems is one of the most
valuable portions of the work, in that it serves to develo...
... form of considerable importance in the consideration of the problem of the
cooling of the earth’s crust.
In the problem of the permanent state of temperatures in a thin rectangular
plate, the ... recede
from the base; we shall attempt to find the temperature at any point of the
plate.
Let us take the base as the axis of X and one end of the base as...
... " ;The Field of the Cloth of Gold," in which two of them, Sophie and Jane, together
with Pauline Markham, one of the classic beauties of the time, appeared. Charles had witnessed part of ... became the
rendezvous of the well-known theatrical figures of the period. The influence of the playhouses extended even
to the shop next door, which happened...