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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... side , all instinct with devotion to him and his family , and ready to expose his life in their defence ? Snuffing the loafer in the tainted breeze , and wakeful to the most stealthy approaches of the midnight robber , he gives instant ...
... side , all instinct with devotion to him and his family , and ready to expose his life in their defence ? Snuffing the loafer in the tainted breeze , and wakeful to the most stealthy approaches of the midnight robber , he gives instant ...
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... side by side , for nearly a quarter of a mile , as the birds kept moving , brought up upon a fine set , and left the rest of the duty to the sportsmen . In another instance , but with different dogs , the birds could not be made to stop ...
... side by side , for nearly a quarter of a mile , as the birds kept moving , brought up upon a fine set , and left the rest of the duty to the sportsmen . In another instance , but with different dogs , the birds could not be made to stop ...
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... side of the horse to defend them . He eats very plentifully of every thing , and is considered indis- pensable to those who economize personal labour on large estates , one dog being considered equal to two men for guarding the flock ...
... side of the horse to defend them . He eats very plentifully of every thing , and is considered indis- pensable to those who economize personal labour on large estates , one dog being considered equal to two men for guarding the flock ...
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... side of a nightly thief - forbidding his laying his hands upon any article , yet abstaining from doing him any bodily harm , and suffering his escape over the walls , is sufficiently attested . " Scott testifies to the utility of this ...
... side of a nightly thief - forbidding his laying his hands upon any article , yet abstaining from doing him any bodily harm , and suffering his escape over the walls , is sufficiently attested . " Scott testifies to the utility of this ...
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... side of them . Their superiority may be owing to the peculiar mode of rearing them , but they are cer- tainly very noble animals , naturally of large size , and highly deserving to be introduced into the United States . A pair of them ...
... side of them . Their superiority may be owing to the peculiar mode of rearing them , but they are cer- tainly very noble animals , naturally of large size , and highly deserving to be introduced into the United States . A pair of them ...
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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!