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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... produced a whelp that was not exactly simi- lar to the unfortunate cur already mentioned . When selecting a pup consult the form . If the father be esteemed the better of the two parents , choose after his points even should the colour ...
... produced a whelp that was not exactly simi- lar to the unfortunate cur already mentioned . When selecting a pup consult the form . If the father be esteemed the better of the two parents , choose after his points even should the colour ...
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... produce any effect . We think that it behooves every real sportsman to refrain from doing any act which he would wish to be kept secret ; and although there may be some speciousness in the excuse , that if I don't kill the birds now ...
... produce any effect . We think that it behooves every real sportsman to refrain from doing any act which he would wish to be kept secret ; and although there may be some speciousness in the excuse , that if I don't kill the birds now ...
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... produce a variation . When raining , they travel but little , and when snowing never . They then generally shelter themselves under fallen bushes , or in the corners of the fence , or in thick broom sedge , or weeds . Cold and windy ...
... produce a variation . When raining , they travel but little , and when snowing never . They then generally shelter themselves under fallen bushes , or in the corners of the fence , or in thick broom sedge , or weeds . Cold and windy ...
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... producing worms of consi- derable size . But in the autumnal season , and especially after the commencement of the frost , when the wild berries are ripe , they become very fat , and are a deli- cious article of food . In the north ...
... producing worms of consi- derable size . But in the autumnal season , and especially after the commencement of the frost , when the wild berries are ripe , they become very fat , and are a deli- cious article of food . In the north ...
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... produced about the middle of summer , and sometimes earlier . The squirrel is ex- tremely watchful ; and it is alleged , that if the tree in which it resides is but touched at the bottom , it instantly takes the alarm , quits its ...
... produced about the middle of summer , and sometimes earlier . The squirrel is ex- tremely watchful ; and it is alleged , that if the tree in which it resides is but touched at the bottom , it instantly takes the alarm , quits its ...
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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!