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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... head of the Topographical Bureau , Col. A. , and we hope he will excuse us for thus using them , and for making this public acknowledgment of our ap- preciation of the merits and good taste of what he con- sidered trifles thrown off to ...
... head of the Topographical Bureau , Col. A. , and we hope he will excuse us for thus using them , and for making this public acknowledgment of our ap- preciation of the merits and good taste of what he con- sidered trifles thrown off to ...
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... head highest will always find the most game , to say nothing of finding it in the handsomest style . 99 " Down charge " for him to lie down , wherever he is , when the gun is discharged . Strict obedience in this is absolutely required ...
... head highest will always find the most game , to say nothing of finding it in the handsomest style . 99 " Down charge " for him to lie down , wherever he is , when the gun is discharged . Strict obedience in this is absolutely required ...
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... head large , but not out of proportion ; muzzle rather longer than is common with that race of dogs ; his colour a dingy red , with some white on the face and breast ; his coat short and smooth , but uncommonly 34 THE DOG .
... head large , but not out of proportion ; muzzle rather longer than is common with that race of dogs ; his colour a dingy red , with some white on the face and breast ; his coat short and smooth , but uncommonly 34 THE DOG .
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... head of this sketch is said to represent his form . All advantage should be taken , while yet he lives , to pre- serve his blood , when subjects worthy of his embraces can be found . In their descendants , even to the present remote ...
... head of this sketch is said to represent his form . All advantage should be taken , while yet he lives , to pre- serve his blood , when subjects worthy of his embraces can be found . In their descendants , even to the present remote ...
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... finishing grip , leaving such as are stone dead to be secured at leisure . When a duck dives to escape him , it is curious to see how he will stand erect , head and shoulders out of water , watching THE NEWFOUNDLAND . 39.
... finishing grip , leaving such as are stone dead to be secured at leisure . When a duck dives to escape him , it is curious to see how he will stand erect , head and shoulders out of water , watching THE NEWFOUNDLAND . 39.
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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!