 else. He had a little net of green gauze, (so constructed as to open and shut as occasion required, to entrap the small fry), and a box with a cork bottom, upon which he impaled his prisoners with true scientific barbarity, by sticking a pin in them....  Tales of the Good Woman - Page 285by James Kirke Paulding - 1867 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Short stories, English - 1832 - 374 pages
...frequently in these excursions, for he was fond of me, and called-me vagabond oftener than he did anybody else. He had a little net of green gauze, so constructed...a pin in them. Thus equipped, this Don Quixote of entomologists, with myself, his faithful esquire, would sally out of a morning into the clovered meadows... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1836 - 442 pages
...frequently in these excursions, for he was fond of me, and called me vagabond oftener than he did anybody else. He had a little net of green gauze, so constructed...a pin in them. Thus equipped, this Don Quixote of butterfly catchers, with myself his faithful esquire, would sally out of a morning into the clovered... | |
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