Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... parties desire . I prove mine singly , as this is a greater trial to a barrel . " Westley Richards told me , in 1828 , that , for a small barrel , you should go to the Birmingham forgers ; but that , for a large one , Fullerd could beat ...
... parties desire . I prove mine singly , as this is a greater trial to a barrel . " Westley Richards told me , in 1828 , that , for a small barrel , you should go to the Birmingham forgers ; but that , for a large one , Fullerd could beat ...
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... parties who had been hard at work since the break of day , He had this season a far inferior breed of birds , and he had only one , and that a very old , dog . He took refreshment , and rested from twelve till two ; shot again till six ...
... parties who had been hard at work since the break of day , He had this season a far inferior breed of birds , and he had only one , and that a very old , dog . He took refreshment , and rested from twelve till two ; shot again till six ...
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... party of men would do in an hour . But when once the dog is out of his depth , these birds are so quick in diving that they will most probably escape him . When it blows fresh and the tides are very high , you will always do best by ...
... party of men would do in an hour . But when once the dog is out of his depth , these birds are so quick in diving that they will most probably escape him . When it blows fresh and the tides are very high , you will always do best by ...
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... parties of a single family , may be said to be in a manner continuous , as in the course of a few days a whole section of country , in which none had been seen for several months , becomes supplied with them . When surprised by the ...
... parties of a single family , may be said to be in a manner continuous , as in the course of a few days a whole section of country , in which none had been seen for several months , becomes supplied with them . When surprised by the ...
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... parties of from twenty to fifty or more . Their love season then commences , and like many other animals their battles also , for the males fight with great energy and desperation . In many places in the West the prairie THE PINNATED ...
... parties of from twenty to fifty or more . Their love season then commences , and like many other animals their battles also , for the males fight with great energy and desperation . In many places in the West the prairie THE PINNATED ...
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Página 147 - Of three specimens from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in length...
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Página 379 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Página 460 - HARRY HIEOVER.- STABLE TALK AND TABLE TALK; or, SPECTACLES for YOUNG SPORTSMEN.
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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