Stories from old-fashioned children's books brought together and introduced to the reader (1900)
Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900 · London : The Leadenhall Prefs, Ltd. · leaf 70
sea-wa-ter is salt or brack-ish, which becomes freshwhen boiled. As the sea is al-ways in mo-tion, sea-wa-tersoon cor-rupts if it stands in a ves-sel : in-deed standing orstag-nat-ed wa-ter soon spoils, but the wa-ter in riv-ers doesnot spoil be-cause it is kept runn-ing or in mo-tion, bymeans of… … 51 THE painters PANEGYRIST. off her nest, and tied a piece of string to one of her legs,and led her about till she died. Now if he had not doneso there might have been four or five young birds hatch-edfrom the eggs, and they might have liv-ed to fly a-bout fromtree to tree, and would have sung…
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