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Page 245 - Monument, erected in grateful remembrance of the mercy of God to the Mormon pioneers." The east tablet shows the arrival of the pioneers; the south indicates despair, hope and the arrival of the gulls; and the west, the harvest. The incident so strikingly commemorated happened in the summer of 1848, during a great plague of "crickets'" (locusts or grasshoppers;, when the gulls came in great flocks to the .settlers' fields and successfully checked the insects that were destroying the crops.
Page 119 - His musical, piny gossip is as savory to the ear as balsam to the palate ; and, though he has not exactly the gift of song, some of his notes are as sweet as those of a linnet — almost flute-like in softness, while others prick and tingle like thistles. He is the mocking-bird of squirrels...
Page 303 - Israel, and who were willing to commit their cause " to his even-handed justice," and his Almighty power. That their great trust was in Him, is manifest from the remarks that were continually breaking from the lips of the patriots.
Page 154 - His head was a flesh-pink and bald like his mother's. He was scantily clothed, for behind his little wings the flesh was bare and his belly was bare; while the rest of his coat was down of pure white, to which the albumen of the egg was still sticking.
Page 33 - ... in America. This animal was never really abundant, but was found in all the wilder sections of America from Canada to Patagonia. It has never been a danger to man like the lions of Africa and India. From the earliest association with man, the cougar wisely learned that man carried the deadliest weapons, and that the safest course was to avoid him in every possible way. Many stories have been written of cougars catching people. Very few are authentic. It is always safe, however, to remember that...
Page 164 - ... but remained as before toward any stranger coming to the camp. At times the young condor was as playful as a pup, Mr. Finley said, and after having his breakfast, would jump down from his perch and toy with a stick in true canine fashion, shaking it in his bill, and then dropping it only to jump upon it with both feet and toss it up again. He was extremely fond of pulling on a rope, and would strain at the guy lines of the canvas tents in a way that seemed to threaten their demolition. A rope...
Page 162 - Both had light-colored wing-bars, and the primaries were well worn. The skin on the throat hung loose, and the lower mandible fitted close under the upper. The chin was orange-red, and below this, on the neck, was a strip of greenish-yellow, merging into the orange about the sides and back of the neck. The top and front of the head were red, but between the eyes was a small patch of black feathers, and these extended down in front of the eye into the orange-red of the cheek.
Page vii - ... will displace the weaker, and produce with the same alkali it may be, a red hexagonal crystal, and so on ad infinitum. Read in this light, spiritual chemistry or form materialisings, are profoundly interesting, and go to prove that the spirit of man has, like the Spirit of God, dominion not only over the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field as Adam had, but over the elements of matter.
Page 29 - I've handled lots of funny boxes," answered the expressman, as he passed out a book to be signed "Received in good order." On the corner of the box, at the top, it said: "Water here." The box was silent — very silent. In fact, there was something uncanny about the stillness. "It must be a new pet of some kind,
Page 26 - He is going down before a great campaign of expert hunters, dogs, guns, strychnine and steel traps.