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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... object is not quantity , but sport , select a single bird for the first shot , and the nearest after that for the second barrel . As soon as the firing ceases apply the call instantly , and exclaim , with determined energy , " down ...
... object is not quantity , but sport , select a single bird for the first shot , and the nearest after that for the second barrel . As soon as the firing ceases apply the call instantly , and exclaim , with determined energy , " down ...
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... the Setter , though used for the same purpose , offer individually a very different object for contemplation , either as regards their external appearance , or their mode of questing game . The Setter is fleeter than 28 THE DOG .
... the Setter , though used for the same purpose , offer individually a very different object for contemplation , either as regards their external appearance , or their mode of questing game . The Setter is fleeter than 28 THE DOG .
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... object to a large head in a hound , especially in that part of it where the power of smell is located . If , in company with an old hound or two to teach them , fox cubs could be turned out to young dogs , it would materially advance ...
... object to a large head in a hound , especially in that part of it where the power of smell is located . If , in company with an old hound or two to teach them , fox cubs could be turned out to young dogs , it would materially advance ...
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... object shall have gotten to be more generally understood . Of this breed of dogs there are several varieties , few specimens of which have been imported . The Pyre- nean , or St. Bernard's dog , is one of great size , immense strength ...
... object shall have gotten to be more generally understood . Of this breed of dogs there are several varieties , few specimens of which have been imported . The Pyre- nean , or St. Bernard's dog , is one of great size , immense strength ...
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... object in view . " Many anecdotes could be related of the wonderful instinct of these dogs . I very much doubt if there are Shepherd dogs in any other part of the world except Spain , equal to those of New Mexico in value . The famed ...
... object in view . " Many anecdotes could be related of the wonderful instinct of these dogs . I very much doubt if there are Shepherd dogs in any other part of the world except Spain , equal to those of New Mexico in value . The famed ...
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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 |
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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!