The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases, Etc., Etc., of Dogs, and an Account of the Different Kinds of Game, with Their Habits. Also Hints to Shooters, with Various Useful Recipes, Etc., EtcLea & Blanchard, 1845 - 223 páginas |
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... four years old , who never pointed till he was past two , and at four was the most promising dog he ever owned . It teaches that much patience should be used , and much time taken , before we abandon to his bad habits , a dog of good ...
... four years old , who never pointed till he was past two , and at four was the most promising dog he ever owned . It teaches that much patience should be used , and much time taken , before we abandon to his bad habits , a dog of good ...
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... four months old , to fetch a duck ; but , lest the constitution be impaired , he should not be put too early at hard service . As to Maxwell's Point ! there is some consolation in knowing that in this wide world of ours , abounding so ...
... four months old , to fetch a duck ; but , lest the constitution be impaired , he should not be put too early at hard service . As to Maxwell's Point ! there is some consolation in knowing that in this wide world of ours , abounding so ...
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... four - footed class of carnivorous animals . Be this as it may , those who have not seen them can believe as much as they like ; but eye - witnesses can assert , that there never was a country blessed with a greater and more abundant ...
... four - footed class of carnivorous animals . Be this as it may , those who have not seen them can believe as much as they like ; but eye - witnesses can assert , that there never was a country blessed with a greater and more abundant ...
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... four , only missing clearly once . He used a double - barrelled flint- gun , whirled and fired five times , with both barrels , in different directions , killed nine birds , and wounded the tenth . This is good shooting with us , and ...
... four , only missing clearly once . He used a double - barrelled flint- gun , whirled and fired five times , with both barrels , in different directions , killed nine birds , and wounded the tenth . This is good shooting with us , and ...
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... four or six at a litter . If often pursued , the hare is also furnished with various sources of evasion and escape . Its ears are so contrived , as to convey even remote sounds from behind : the eyes are so situated as to enable it ...
... four or six at a litter . If often pursued , the hare is also furnished with various sources of evasion and escape . Its ears are so contrived , as to convey even remote sounds from behind : the eyes are so situated as to enable it ...
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The Dog and the Sportsman - Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases ... John Stuart Skinner,John George Wood Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases ... John Stuart Skinner,Frederick Thomas Hodgson Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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Página 43 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 39 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth: While man, vain insect!