The kittens were foraging among the bushes, but she called to them in a tone which told them plainly enough that some new trouble had befallen her, and they hurried down to the water's edge, and stood there, mewing piteously.
The chipmunks came into the house occasionally, onforaging expeditions; and so, I regret to say, did the skunks.
I have only come across black foraging ants; but there are red species.
While making the round of his small mammal traps one morning, Miller encountered an army of the formidable foraging ants.
In the early morning a column of foraging ants appeared, and we drove them back, also with fire.
These ant- wrens hover in front of and over the columns of foraging ants, feeding not only on the other insects aroused by the ants, but on the ants themselves.
Going thither one morning, he found the tree, and the nest itself, swarming with foraging ants.
We would draw our quarter rations and eat them up right away, not having drawn for four days before, and take chances on foragingor gobbling or in any way that we could pick up anything to eat.
The latter should then be put on the original stand, to receive the foraging bees as they return home; whilst the presence of the old Queen will secure a sufficiency in the other hive, which may be placed at a little distance.
A little while before sunset Juan Pizarro left the city with a picked corps of horsemen, and took a direction opposite to that of the fortress, that the besieging army might suppose the object was a foraging expedition.
They were not slow in profiling by the circumstance, and Hernando Pizarro took advantage of the temporary absence to send out foraging parties to scour the country, and bring back supplies to his famishing soldiers.
One bright morning three companies of our regiment got orders to go on a foraging expedition, and I was one to go and I was very glad of it, for mounting guard and drilling began to grow old and anything new was hailed with delight.
I have changed my mind in regard to sending you out on a foraging expedition.
The citizens had a little more manners when we came back; there were no more guards put over wells, and not so much punishing going on if one of our men was caught foraging on his own hook.
I understand you have run the guard and been foraging on your own hook.
He was good to his men and did all he could to keep them in good health and well clothed, but would punish severely if any were caught foraging on their own hook.
Take a rest to-day, for to-morrow I will send you out on a foraging expedition.
When our boys went out foraging they would always bring back something for the sick comrades.
I being a sergeant in my company, was ordered to take ten men to act as rear guards, and, of course, we were in the rear of the wagons, so we had a good opportunity to do a little foraging on our own hook.
I remember on one of our foraging trips we came up to a very nice farm house, and an old lady came out and said, "Are you'ns Yankees?
The men were all glad to see me, and they all wanted to go out foraging with me the next day.
This young man Jim was always foragingfor the sick boys.
Some returned across the dike to the salt meadow, where the broad-leaf grass was not yet ripe for mowing; while the remnant huddled precariously under the bases of the stacks, an easy prey for every foraging weasel.
The big brown mink, who lived far upstream in a muskrat hole whose occupants he had cornered and devoured, was out on one of his foraging expeditions.
This attempted foraging expedition--for it was nothing else--can only be defended on the broad general principle that it is better to do something than nothing as a last resort.
No one knows better than golden-eyes what her children are capable of doing when on a foraging tour.
Or perhaps if we are not sufficiently forehanded to get the root in the fall we can get it during a thaw in March when we go foraging for spring feelings in winter woods.
One day he had a narrow escape from a huge snapping turtle which entered the pool on a foraging expedition.
Silver Spot had not tasted chicken since, as a cub, he had rushed to meet his mother returning from a foraging expedition, but the recollection of the delicacy was still strong with him.
His conceptions of foraging were rather more Western and liberal than mine, and on these excursions he fully indemnified himself for any undue abstinence demanded of him when in camp.
They were nearly three times the number of the foraging soldiers.
We halted at a village, where a foraging party of the French had been only a few hours before.
Hannibal, seeing that the Romans would not fight, detached his Numidian cavalry across the river to cut off the Roman foraging parties and to surround and harass their smaller camp on that side of the river.
He at once despatched the whole of his cavalry to attack the foraging parties, and with his infantry he advanced to the attack of the weakly defended Carthaginian camp.
The next morning Emilius, who was in command, detached a third of his force across the river, and encamped them there for the purpose of supporting the Roman foraging parties on that side and of interrupting those of the Carthaginians.
It was all important to the Carthaginians to collect an ample supply of food before winter set in, and Hannibal, finding that the Romans would not attack him, was compelled to resume foraging expeditions.
They would all fall asleep in a soft, stirring lump for five seconds, and then rouse up, with no apparent cause, but as suddenly and simultaneously as if the drum had beat a reveille, and go foraging about in the most enterprising manner.
During our campaign in Georgia, we subsisted chiefly upon the country, which was gathered in by foraging parties, detached for that purpose, and under the command of an officer.
Small parties onforaging expeditions frequently crossed the latter, and greatly harassed the citizens in and around Snagtown.
When morning came, nearly all the horses were needed for the work of collecting the balance of the scattered forces, foraging for provisions and for arms and horses.
One evening Corporal Grimm suggested to Sergeant Swords that they form an independentforaging corps of half a dozen and make a raid on the turkeys of an old rebel, about a mile from the camp, that night.
The foraging party were now provided with their lists, and with certain sums to pay for the things they were to get.
The foraging party had been out, and came in, one by one, in the rear of the cake-man, heavily laden.
Spiller was there, and so were all the foraging party.
How we enjoyed the rest and the foraging (from fresh pastures) on the 30th, and Gen.
Arrived at San Vincente, the reinforcements went into camp, amusing themselves, while they awaited orders to march, by foraging on the scattered ranches.
Whole companies deserted at a time; pickets abandoned their posts; foraging parties sent out to collect food for the hungry garrison never came back.
Belloso from his eyrie was wont to swoop down on detached parties of foraging filibusters, or to strike with quick and deadly blow the solitary hamlets whose people might be suspected of a leaning towards the liberal cause.
Foraging parties went out in the interval, but the bulk of the force did not move.
The host camped upon that Thursday night somewhat widely spread around its King, with foraging parties still distant and appointed to return upon the morrow.
An army upon a raid such as this also throws out foraging parties and detachments, which leave its main body for the purposes of observation or of plunder.
But it very soon became evident that the foraging party--if it were a foraging party--did desire to overtake us.
Probably a belated foraging party returning to camp," said Carmen.
The best time to get away would be immediately after nightfall, when most of the foraging parties would have returned to camp and the men be at supper.
