It must be, I think, that Nature has endowed the young of ground-nesting birds with a scentlessness which is a form of negative protection from their enemies - if one may use such a definition.

For a processioner, and a manual, twenty pence

“Nolly, dear?” murmured Nancy in a gentle voice; “Nolly?”

To contravene positions, that have been discussed again and again by writers of the first genius and erudition, and to disparage the genuineness of the bible histories wholly and indiscriminately, without some precision of investigation, some specific allegations, founded on the report of authentic documents, is intolerable arrogance […]