Скачать книгу
tion>
Philip Stewart Robinson
Under the Sun
Published by Good Press, 2020
[email protected]
EAN 4064066062378
Table of Contents
A Preliminary Warning of the Contents of this Book
In my Indian Garden
Visitors in Feathers
Visitors in Fur, and others
In Hot Weather
The Rains
The Cold Weather
Monkeys and Metaphysics
Hunting of the Soko
Elephants
The Elephants’ Fellow-countrymen
Cats and Sparrows
Bears—Wolves—Dogs—Rats
Some Sea-Folk
The Man-Eating Tree
Eastern Smells and Western Noses
Gamins
Of Tailors
The Hara-Kiri
My Wife’s Birds
The Legend of the Blameless Priest
Part I. Indian Sketches.
Table of Contents
“When God set about creation, He first planted a garden.”
Nugæ Orielanæ .
The Birds… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
17
“Euel . — But of what sort, pray, is this life among the birds? for you know it accurately.
Hoopoe . — Not an unpleasant one to pass; where, in the first place, we must live without a purse.
Euel . — You have removed much of life’s base metal.
Hoopoe . — And we feed in gardens upon the white sesame and myrtle-berries and poppies and mint.”
Aristophanes (Hickie’s ).
Of Hens… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
20
“Tame, villatic fowl.”—Milton .
“The feathered tribe domestic.”—Cowper .
“The careful hen.”—Thomson .
“The dâk-bungalow fowls develop the bones of vultures and lay the eggs of finches.”—Nugæ Orielanæ .
Corvus Splendens.
“ ‘Crows,’ remarked the Ettrick Shepherd, ‘are down
in the devil’s book in round-hand.’ ”—Noctes Ambrosianæ .
Green Parrots… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
30
“The writer of the Mahabharata excluded green parrots
from an ideal country. ‘There are,’ he writes, ‘no parrots there to eat the grain.’ ”—Nugæ Orielanæ .
The Mynas (Stuminæ )… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
32
“To strange mysterious dulness still the friends,”—Byron .
“Two starlings cannot sleep in one bed.”—Proverb .
The Seven Sisters… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
36
“One for each of the wise men. of Greece, one for each hill of Kome, each of the divitis ostia Nili and each hero of Thebes, one for each day of the week, one for each of the Pleiades, one for each cardinal sin.”—Nugæ Orielanæ .
