O'er Crag and Torrent with Rod and Gun, Shooting and FishingEverett, 1904 - 261 strán (strany) |
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Strana 9
... short anecdotes relating to various forms of our common pleasure , based on personal and practical experience . Well , I have made this attempt to interest those with sporting tastes and proclivities , and if I have failed , I feel sure ...
... short anecdotes relating to various forms of our common pleasure , based on personal and practical experience . Well , I have made this attempt to interest those with sporting tastes and proclivities , and if I have failed , I feel sure ...
Strana 14
... semi- on land , and equally at home in water . It has a long , lithe body , short legs , with webbed toes ; the tail is long and flattened , strong and broad at the base , and tapering at the 14 O'er Crag and Torrent.
... semi- on land , and equally at home in water . It has a long , lithe body , short legs , with webbed toes ; the tail is long and flattened , strong and broad at the base , and tapering at the 14 O'er Crag and Torrent.
Strana 15
... short , soft hairs , of a sandy hue , whilst the upper or outer coat is of a rich brown colour , and the hairs longer and stiffer . Otters lie up during the day in holts or hovers in the banks of the rivers or ponds ; a hollow under the ...
... short , soft hairs , of a sandy hue , whilst the upper or outer coat is of a rich brown colour , and the hairs longer and stiffer . Otters lie up during the day in holts or hovers in the banks of the rivers or ponds ; a hollow under the ...
Strana 64
... short lane , then up over a granite boulder - strewn hill , and eventually on to a fine broad expanse of moor with two grand old tors in the distance , looking like giant sentinels keeping watch and ward over the wild expanse of ...
... short lane , then up over a granite boulder - strewn hill , and eventually on to a fine broad expanse of moor with two grand old tors in the distance , looking like giant sentinels keeping watch and ward over the wild expanse of ...
Strana 65
... short interval followed , and then a young farmer on the extreme right moved a hare from her form in a bunch of rushes . She sank the hill , and took a line across a nasty boggy bit of ground into some cultivated enclosures , which ...
... short interval followed , and then a young farmer on the extreme right moved a hare from her form in a bunch of rushes . She sank the hill , and took a line across a nasty boggy bit of ground into some cultivated enclosures , which ...
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animal badger bank beat beautiful better birds Blarney brace Butrinto Camel cast caught charming Christmastide clever cock commenced couple of snipe covey Dargle Dartmoor day's delightful Devonshire dog-fish dropped earth fair farmer favour field fish flies foot beagles foot harriers fox-hound Glencree Glencullen gobble goyles grass ground grouse half couple happy happy days hare head hear heavy hill hooked killed Laird land legs little pack looked lough Lough Dan Master morning mountain hare night old chap old friend otter hunting partridge passed pheasants pleasure pool pound present Punchestown quarter rabbits ride rise river rose rough rushes ryver Sally sheep short shot side Skipper sound sport sportsmen stream suddenly sure as fate tail terriers trenching trout Turk turkey walk weather Welcombe whilst WICKLOW wild wood woodcock yards
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Strana 17 - Sir, it is not in my power to resolve you ; I leave it to be resolved by the college of Carthusians, who have made vows never to eat flesh. But I have heard, the question hath been debated among many great clerks : and they seem to differ about it : yet most agree that her tail is fish.3 And if her body be fish too, then I may say that a fish will walk upon land...
Strana 101 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Strana 168 - It has been stretched by another," he said, and those who heard him knew well enough that Rochester was meant. This public humiliation taught Lady Essex that she must be off with the old love before she was on with the new.
Strana 29 - Otter to efcape, but that eyther the houndes fhall light vpon him, or els fome of the huntefmen fhall ftrike him, and thus may you haue excellent fporte and paftime in hunting of the Otter, if the houndes be good, and that the Riuers be not ouer great : where the Riuers be greate, fome vfe to haue a lyne throwen ouerthwart the Riuer, the whiche twoo of the huntefmen fhall holde by eche ende, one on the one fide of the Riuer, and the other on that other : and let them holde the line fo flacke that...
Strana 169 - ... useless ; she yielded to them in so far as to accompany them home in the morning, but when night came she again repaired to the grave, and passed the hours of darkness there. At length her mind gave way, and she gleefully informed her friends that her former lover had come to life again, that they had walked and talked in the glen as of old, and that he had promised to return and lead her to a place where they should never part. Alarmed by her looks and words, her friends placed a watch over...
Strana 29 - For if the houndes be good otter houndes and perfectly entered, they will come chaunting and trayling alongst by the riverside, and will beate every tree roote, every holme, every osier bedde, and...
Strana 29 - ... they runne vp or downe the ftreame as they fee the Otter bend, vntil they may at laft giue him a Blowe: for if the houndes be good Otter houndes and perfectly entred, they will come chaunting and trayling alongft by the riuers fide, and will beate euery tree roote, euery holme, euery Ofier bedde, and tufft of bulrufhes : yea fomtimes alfo they will take the ryuer and beate it like a water fpaniell : fo that it...
Strana 30 - Otters fkinne is very good furre, and his greafe wil make a medicine to make fiflies turn vp their bellies as if they were deade. A good Otter hounde may proue an excellent good buckhound, if he be not old before he be entred. Thus haue you now afmuch as I can prefently fet down for...
Strana 27 - Harte, and it is a note to be obferued that all fuch chaces as you draw after before you finde them, lodge them, or herbor them, you fhoulde make a folempne aflembly to heare all reportes before you vndertake to hunte them, and then he which hath found of an Otter, or fo drawen toward his couche that he can vndertake to bryng you vnto him...