 | 1848 - 744 Seiten
...stirr'd, As loath to waken any singing bird. No less to our liking is the following SUUIBfcEL HtTNT. Then as a nimble squirrel from the wood Ranging the hedges for his filbert food, Sits partly on a bough, bit brown nut* cracking:, And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking, 'Till with their crooks... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 Seiten
...sqtiirrill from the wood, Ranging the hedge? fur his filberd-fooil, Sits partly on a bough his browne nuts cracking. And from the shell the sweet white kernel! taking, Till (with their crookes and bags) a sort of boyes (ft) share with him) come with so great a noysc, That he is forc'd... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 Seiten
...circumstances of the detail are excellently touched. It comes from the Pastorals of William Browne. Then, as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filberd-food, Sits partly on a bough, his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 Seiten
...circumstances of the detail are excellently touched. It comes from the Pastorals of William Browne. Then, as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filberd-food, Sits partly on a bough, his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1836 - 400 Seiten
...retire, and loth to leave her soe." How animated is this picture of boys hunting the " squirrel !" " Then as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filberd-food, Sits partly on a bough his browne nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel... | |
 | Eliza R. Steele - 1841 - 290 Seiten
...fowls, and the paroquets were chattering in concert with the mocking bird. There the squirrel also " Sits partly on a bough his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking." Here however in these pretty nooks he sits undisturbed, for no boys ' with crooks and bags' can molest... | |
 | 1841 - 272 Seiten
...since passed away. The following account of a juvenile squirrel-hunt is from an old poet: — Then as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filberd-food, Sits partly on a bough his browno nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernell... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 164 Seiten
...hundred years ago : — " A nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert-food, Sits partly on a bough, his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking : When with their crooks and bags, a host of boys, To share with him, come with so great a noise, -That... | |
 | 1847 - 508 Seiten
...such sum not exceeding five pounds, as to the justice by whom he may be committed shall seem meet. " A nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert food, gits partly on a bough, his brown nuts cracking, And from* the shell the sweet white kernel taking."... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 Seiten
...belonged. This national garb of the Scotch was proscribed by government in 1747. THE SQUIRREL-HUNT. THEN, as a nimble Squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert-food, Sits partly on a bough his browne nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernell... | |
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Then as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert-food, Sits pertly on a bough his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking, Till with their crooks and bags a sort of boys, To share with him, come... 
