Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 282
genuity in building its nest, which is constructed as strongly as possible, so as tokeep out the March rains. A Genevese traveller records the fact of finding a whole rowof their nests covered over at the roof with bits of an old mackintosh, which they had evi-dently picked up from one of the… … those we have read is the one of the fox plundering a hen every morning of its eggs, andleaving a piece of chalk, of the same size as an egg, for every one he stole. The following is amusing, for it proves that the PaiTot is not so stupid as he is gene-rally represented. Jack Sheppard, when he had…
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 · Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain
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