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Doctor South did not reply, and the servant brought in some grilled sprats. Philip ate them with an excellent appetite.

Never, never, never, marry a little man!" Papa also would remark to me (he possessed extraordinary humour),"that a family of whales must not ally themselves with sprats." His company was eagerly sought, as may be supposed, by the wits of the day, and our house was their continual resort.

Each boy had a quarter of a loaf of bread and pat of butter, and as much tea as he pleased; and there was scarcely one who didn't add to this some further luxury, such as baked potatoes, a herring, sprats, or something of the sort.

"How quaint it would, be if one could carry it about like a lantern, or have little sprats for candles.

When the battle was at its height, a Sprat lifted its head out of the waves and said that he would reconcile their differences if they would accept him as an umpire.

"Or even," said he, "if you was helped to knocking her up a new chain for the front door - or say a gross or two of shark-headed screws for general use - or some light fancy article, such as a toasting-fork when she took her muffins - or a gridiron when she took a sprat or such like--"

"And yet he's given a whole half hour to the consideration of my very small sprat," interjected the Assistant Commissioner.

Here, in Numbers Five and Six, are my own personal subscriptions to local charities, actually paid in remunerative neighborhoods, on the principle of throwing a sprat to catch a herring; also, my diary of each day's proceedings, my personal reflections and remarks, my statement of existing difficulties (such as the difficulty of finding myself T.

Last week: Winners at 29/10 & 27/10 And in midweek, United floated around with their mouths hanging open as City shimmied like sprats.

In addition to the pollution of the sea, catches of sprats are also extremely damaging because the sprat is at the root of the food chain.

A parcel of fish was here produced containing both sprats and small herrings and it was explained that through the size in both instances was about the same, the sprat could be distinguished by means of the spike on the belly, whilst the small herring had a smooth surface.