Word: preying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game should be amicably shared. No sooner were they in the Forest, than the Fox took the Kid aside, and made this harangue: "My dear Kid, you are inexperienced in hunting; come, you and I will hunt together, while this stupid Lion is asleep, and we will divide whatever prey we find, and have the Lion's share to ourselves." To this the Kid readily agreed, and the two succeeded in bringing down a Hare. "You," said the Fox, " are a Vegetarian; I will keep the Hare to myself, and you shall have the first Haystack we catch...
...WONDER whether I am the only reader of the Crimson who has fallen easy prey to the specious eloquence of old Izaak Walton, that arch-humbug who "babbles of green fields" in such a naive and charming way. Last spring I picked up "The Complete Angler," and at once devoting to Hades the august historians and orators of antiquity, I wanted to be a fisher of trout, I longed for brooks to conquer, I wished to commune with Nature. I have communed now, and some of the greenness has departed from those fields and from...
...diving in thy bosom, seek their prey...
...consider them in order, taking the lowest class, the Carnivora, first. This class comprises all proctors of prey, and it is indeed a numerous one. Its habits are strange, and form a very interesting study, and that you may know them the better, I will mention a few of their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind...
...things; but whether this be the cause, or the reason is to be found in the universal weakness of man, the fickleness remains. Rifle-shooting, but a few months ago all the rage, gives way now to a mania for knickerbockers; these in their turn will fall an easy prey to the first rival for the popular favor. There is yet hope that the interest in boating will show itself to a great extent this spring. If it does it will be, unquestionably, a good thing for the College...