There was a time in the olden days when the cormorant and the bat took counsel together to do something for the poor as they had compassion on them, and …
Animals
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When the robin will not sing in churchyard trees, the place is said to be haunted. (source: photo; text from an article in the Hartford Times, 1892)
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The ancient legal penalty of Deodand, well known in England, by which an animal or object causing a death was confiscated and became the king’s property, was enforced in the …
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Thou little tailless cat with coat of jet, Whose amber eyes with ecstatic dew are wet, As on my lap thy paws beat even tread, “In-out, in-out” – as though …
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The old fishermen thought it very lucky to catch the first bee they happened to see in April. It was the sign of a good herring season, they said. I …
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One day this winter we had no bread for tea at Orry’s Dale. On inquiring the reason the next time the baker’s cart came, the boy who drove it said …
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I think it was in the beginning of September that I was working in the garden, when a robin began to sing on the top of a hedge close by. …
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I have heard an old story that long ago there used to be a great deal of kids on the top of the mountains or on the headlands of the …