Every Boy's Book

Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

The Magpie

3 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

The Magpie

BUT what are we to say of the magpie, the very Mercury of the feathered tribes,--light, active, eloquent, and the most accomplished thief…

The Magpie: Sometimes

As a general fact, the ordinary wicker cages are of small use. A lively, active magpie, with all its senses developed, will make little of…

The Magpie: Waterton

It is impossible to have a better or more complete plan of attracting the owls than that which is employed by Mr. Waterton at Walton Hall…

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