Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... ANIMALS AND BIRDS . CAREFULLY COLLATED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES . BY WM . T. PORTER , Esq . , EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK " SPIRIT OF THE TIMES , " ETC. , ETC. , ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS . PHILADELPHIA : LEA AND BLANCHARD . 1846 . LAVA . THE ...
... ANIMALS AND BIRDS . CAREFULLY COLLATED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES . BY WM . T. PORTER , Esq . , EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK " SPIRIT OF THE TIMES , " ETC. , ETC. , ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS . PHILADELPHIA : LEA AND BLANCHARD . 1846 . LAVA . THE ...
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... animals ! —very excusable in a boy , who would desire no better fun ! If a gun , after your having probed the touchhole , should ever flash in the pan , you had better draw the shot ; and , in firing off the powder , hold the gun ...
... animals ! —very excusable in a boy , who would desire no better fun ! If a gun , after your having probed the touchhole , should ever flash in the pan , you had better draw the shot ; and , in firing off the powder , hold the gun ...
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... animals , we are not always sufficiently particular . In the one , we are apt to let them degenerate for want of a proper cross ; and , in the other , we are too well contented ( provided they have " plenty of hunt in them " ) with ...
... animals , we are not always sufficiently particular . In the one , we are apt to let them degenerate for want of a proper cross ; and , in the other , we are too well contented ( provided they have " plenty of hunt in them " ) with ...
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... animals ; at least , many characteristic points are required , in order to dis- tinguish them . The one is very large ; strong in the limbs ; rough haired ; small in the head ; and carries his tail very high . He is kept in that country ...
... animals ; at least , many characteristic points are required , in order to dis- tinguish them . The one is very large ; strong in the limbs ; rough haired ; small in the head ; and carries his tail very high . He is kept in that country ...
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... well of the gentle science itself as of the wild animals which it teaches alike to pursue and slay when in , and how to spare when out of season . " THE WOODCOCK , ITS HABITS , HAUNTS , ETC. BY THE GAME OF NORTH AMERICA . 183.
... well of the gentle science itself as of the wild animals which it teaches alike to pursue and slay when in , and how to spare when out of season . " THE WOODCOCK , ITS HABITS , HAUNTS , ETC. BY THE GAME OF NORTH AMERICA . 183.
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Página 459 - This celebrated work has been completely revised, and much of it almost entirely re-written by its able author, who, from being a practical veterinary surgeon, and withal a great lover and excellent judge of the animal, is particularly well qualified to write the history of the noblest of quadrupeds. Messrs. Lea and Blanchard of Philadelphia have...
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Página 383 - tis merry in good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer pass by, the hounds are in cry And the hunter's horn is ringing.
Página 322 - My companion, a stout, hale and athletic man, dressed in a homespun hunting-shirt, bare-legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said had proved efficient in all his former undertakings, and which he hoped would not fail on this occasion, as he felt proud to show me his skill. The gun was wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched with six-hundred-thread linen, and the charge sent home with a hickory rod.
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