Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 4William Spooner, 1853 - Arts |
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... Silkworm , The , 97 Skylark , A Remarkable , 219 , 319 Sleep , 127 Snow Storm in May , 84 Soap Plant , The , 192 Sole , The , 126 Somnambulisim , 269 South Africa , Life in , 28 Sparrow Hawk , The , 55 Spider , The , 128 , 248 Sprains ...
... Silkworm , The , 97 Skylark , A Remarkable , 219 , 319 Sleep , 127 Snow Storm in May , 84 Soap Plant , The , 192 Sole , The , 126 Somnambulisim , 269 South Africa , Life in , 28 Sparrow Hawk , The , 55 Spider , The , 128 , 248 Sprains ...
Page 97
... silkworm are completely sui generis , both as regards the times of its eating and sleeping . thoroughly , should be an early - the earliest study . The silkworm takes no water with its food , excepting only what is contained in the ...
... silkworm are completely sui generis , both as regards the times of its eating and sleeping . thoroughly , should be an early - the earliest study . The silkworm takes no water with its food , excepting only what is contained in the ...
Page 98
... silkworm is a silkworm . On the third day from its first This may be called the " FIRST AGE " of the refusal of food , the animal appears on that account much wasted in its bodily frame , - a circumstance which naturally assists it in ...
... silkworm is a silkworm . On the third day from its first This may be called the " FIRST AGE " of the refusal of food , the animal appears on that account much wasted in its bodily frame , - a circumstance which naturally assists it in ...
Page 99
... silkworm com- mences from about the fifteenth day of its birth . The worms , after their third sickness , will have increased to such a size as again to require double the space which they had and four times the during their second age ...
... silkworm com- mences from about the fifteenth day of its birth . The worms , after their third sickness , will have increased to such a size as again to require double the space which they had and four times the during their second age ...
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... silkworm has at- tained its full growth , and presents the ap- pearance of a slender caterpillar from 2 to three inches in length . We would here remark that one of the greatest drawbacks to the successful keeping of silkworms in this ...
... silkworm has at- tained its full growth , and presents the ap- pearance of a slender caterpillar from 2 to three inches in length . We would here remark that one of the greatest drawbacks to the successful keeping of silkworms in this ...
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Page 121 - NOT in the solitude Alone may man commune with Heaven, or see Only in savage wood And sunny vale, the present Deity ; Or only hear his voice Where the winds whisper and the waves rejoice. Even here do I behold Thy steps, Almighty ! — here, amidst the crowd, Through the great city rolled, With everlasting murmur deep and loud — Choking the ways that wind 'Mongst the proud piles, the work of human kind.
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