bantam

The birds that the two girls had brought in were duly returned to the yard, and the process was repeated till all the pet cocks and hens had been submitted to the old woman--Hamburghs, Bantams, Cochins, Brahmas, Dorkings, and such other sorts as were in fashion just then--her perception of each visitor being seldom at fault as she received the bird upon her knees.

There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam's eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.

Poyser's bantam cock, who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow.

The only one with anything approaching to a voice, is an aged bantam at the baker's; and even he is hoarse, in consequence of bad living in his last place.

But when we compare the dray-horse and race-horse, the dromedary and camel, the various breeds of sheep fitted either for cultivated land or mountain pasture, with the wool of one breed good for one purpose, and that of another breed for another purpose; when we compare the many breeds of dogs, each good for man in very different ways; when we compare the game-cock, so pertinacious in battle, with other breeds so little quarrelsome, with 'everlasting layers' which never desire to sit, and with the bantam so small and elegant; when we compare the host of agricultural, culinary, orchard, and flower-garden races of plants, most useful to man at different seasons and for different purposes, or so beautiful in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to mere variability.

"My wrist is sprained with ye!" he cried, at last; "but there is still rope enough left for you, my fine bantam, that wouldn't give up.

But as much as it will be financially lucrative for Sunderland, it will cost them in the short-term with a PS150,000 payment due to the Bantams as part of the Charlie Wyke deal negotiated last summer.

Donaire was supposed to battle Zolani Tete of South Africa in the semifinal round of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS), a special tournament involving the world's finest bantams. But Tete suffered a shoulder injury, forcing Young to step in as a substitute and get to fight in the main event instead of in the undercard where he was supposed to see action.

Josef has signed on loan from Bradford City after signing for the Bantams on a free transfer from TSV 1860 Munich in July 2017.

The 21-year-old almost helped the Bantams to promotion last season, as they lost out in a heartbreaking play-off final to Millwall at Wembley.