 | John George Wood - 1870 - 744 pages
...Finding him exceedingly tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves...of a cucumber vine, sleeping, or chewing the cud, till evening." The real object of this continual grinding or mumbling movement is simple enough. The... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1869 - 168 pages
...Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always, after breakfast, into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening ; in the leaves, also, of that plant he found a favourite... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening ; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. I had not long habituated... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 224 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening ; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. I had not long habituated... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...this he never did but once again, on a similar occasion. I used to carry him after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening. He would often invite me to the garden, by drumming upon... | |
 | 1872 - 136 pages
...this he never did but once again, on a similar occasion. I used to carry him after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening. He would often invite me to the garden, by drumming upon... | |
 | William Cowper - 1878 - 286 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. I had not long habit tinted... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1880 - 436 pages
...also in the habit of carrying Puss after breakfast into the garden, where he generally hid himself under the leaves of a cucumber vine, "sleeping or chewing the cud till evening " ; the poet by the way in this remark showing that he was not a learned naturalist. Puss... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 pages
...Finding him exceedingly "tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine,Weeping or chewing the cud till evening; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite... | |
 | Hermann Lange - 1883 - 294 pages
...garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a vine, sleeping 2 or chewing the cud till evening ; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast 3. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before * he began to be impatient for the... | |
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Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening; in the leaves also of that vine he... 
