He generally sends out about twenty runts and roughs, and lets it go at that.
You wouldn’t go there for runts, that is if you were in your right senses; if you were in want of runts you would have gone to my parish and have applied to me Mr. Bos; that is if you were in your senses.
In runts and carriers there is generally the proper number, namely twelve; but in one runt, and in the Bussorah carrier, there were only eleven.
When the naked skin over the nostrils and round the eyes is considerably developed and wattled, and when the size of body is not very great, Runts graduate in so insensible a manner into Carriers, that the distinction is quite arbitrary.
Nevertheless the Barb, which must be classed in this same group, has a very short beak, and somerunts have very little bare skin round their eyes.
In some runtsthe symphysis of the lower jaw is remarkably solid.
I am not sure that I am right in placing these Runts in a distinct sub-race; yet, if we take well-characterized birds, there can be no doubt of the propriety of the separation.
Indeed, certain carriers and runts pass into each other by such insensible gradations that an arbitrary line has to be drawn between them.
I am informed by Mr. Tegetmeier, two Runts from the south of France were lately exhibited at the Crystal Palace, each of which weighed 2 lbs.
I am not sure that I am right in placing these Runts in a distinct sub- race; yet, if we take well-characterised birds, there can be no doubt of the propriety of the separation.
In the case of the Fantail we may suppose that the first progenitor of the breed had a tail only slightly erected, as may now be seen in certain Runts (6/45.
In some Runts the symphysis of the lower jaw is remarkably solid.
In Runtsand Carriers there is generally the proper number, namely twelve; but in one Runt, and in the Bussorah Carrier, there were only eleven.
Runts of the elongated breed had the same marks, but the croup was pale blue; the outer tail-feathers had white edges.
I kicked one of those smaller runts that tried to bite me, but I don't think he got his teeth in my leg.
Pretty soon another load of steers is ready--my sakes, what scrubby runts we sent off the range in them days compared to now!
Scrubby little runts that had been raised out in the hills and was all bone and muscle, and any one of 'em able to do a mile in four minutes flat, I guess.
The Scotch runts from the Highland cattle are more valuable than any other class of hide found in the United Kingdom; unfortunately, the production is small.
The hides known as Scotch and Hereford runts are the best of those produced in the United Kingdom, as they are well-grown, compact, and well-suited to the making of sole leather and belting.
You can imagine the pins and needles he'd been on for a week, scared I'd get the tip and knowing if he even mentioned them runts at any price whatever that I'd be wise at once.
They was knotty-headed littlerunts that I'd never bothered to handle.
I think that we are safe in saying that the weakness caused the shortage of lime rather than vice versa; if the writer remembers runts in other animals are usually a little short of bone material.
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