The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 564
n shone. They would always settleon a thistle when they could find onein bloom, flying off to attack any in-sect, no matter what, that might come anywhere near them;not always returning, but generally passing on to anotherplace. It was very little use following them if you missed yourfirst stroke… … THE SILVER-STUDDEDBLUB. THE SMALL COPPER, A great many people have fancied that they could find outnew quarters for the insect, but nobody to our knowledge hasas yet succeeded in doing so. Many years ago a Brightonfriend told us that he intended to do the trick some day, buthe has been, to say the…
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