The Badminton Magazine 1895-12: Vol 1 Iss 5 (1895)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 60
e tree and a second boy on the other, the little bird’s methods failed it. On the great occasion on which it fell to my blowpipe, Joe—Joe was the coachman’s boy—had just moved to the further side of the trunk from that on which we had seen it alight. In a moment I saw the sharp head peering over… … ‘LET ME HAVE A LOOK AT YOUR CURIOUS STICK, MY LITTLE Boy’ of it, and in another moment Joe picked it up from the ground quite dead. I was very successful in stuffing and setting it up, clinging on a piece of lichen-encrusted bark. Its natural attitude gave oppor- tunities for more points d’appui…
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