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20 added 25 added 25 sovs 30 added 50 added 50 sovs agst allowed 3lb Alzira angler animal appeared back his stake Bay Middleton beat Bentinck's Byes Capt carry 3lb Cholstrey course Curragh Derby distance ditto Don John Doncaster Duke Eglinton's Exeter's extra favourite fillies fish five four Gentlemen riders Goodwood Grey Momus half half-bred HANDICAP Harkaway Harpurhey hounds hunter hunting Lady Langar Leger LEGER STAKES length Lord G Lord Milltown mare match meeting Mervan Milltown Momus Muley never Newmarket old colts once round owner Peel's PLATE of 50 Priam quarter Queen's Plates Quorndon race racer season second horse recd six and aged sold sport sportsman STAKES of 25 Stanley's started subs SWEEPSTAKES three yrs tion trout Turf Club twice round Velocipede wicket winner Wreford's
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Página 257 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold ? Nor yet, when moist Arcturus clouds the sky, The woods and fields their pleasing toils deny.
Página 153 - ... the season, and that any one who may be led by it to a choice of flies from the stock of the manufacturer, or to the construction of his own, will not have cause to repent of having consulted the Catalogue, chiefly composing the Fourth Chapter.
Página 339 - How many Caesars and Pompeys, he would say, by mere inspiration of the names, have been rendered worthy of them ! And how many, he would add, are there, who might have done exceeding well in the world had not their characters and spirits been totally depressed and Nicodemus'd into nothing!
Página 153 - ... he has been induced to paint both the natural and artificial fly from nature, to etch them with his own hand, and to colour, or superintend the colouring, of each particular impression. He therefore presumes to hope, that he has succeeded in giving a useful collection of the leading flies for every month in the season...
Página 163 - You know my seventeen year old horse, that I always call the bay colt ; I proposed to stake him against the watch, and the fellow agreed to it without ever looking in his mouth ; if he had, he would have seen teeth as long as tenpenny nails. It is easy fooling any of them New York collectors — they ain't cute: the watch is a bang-up lever, and he says if he was GOING TO TRAVEL he would not be without it for any consideration. He made me promise if I won it...
Página 161 - em, so you can make expenses." 1 always make a hand when about, and thinking I might get a wrinkle by prying into the mystery of quarterracing, I accordingly rode to the thickest of the crowd. A rough-hewn fellow, who either was, or pretended to be, drunk, was bantering to run his mare against any horse that had ploughed as much that season, his mare having, as he assured us, tended twenty-five acres in corn. Another chap sidled up to him, and offered to plough against him for...
Página 164 - The horse was ahead when he passed me !" After much squabbling, it was admitted by both parties that the nag that came out on the lefthand side of the track was ahead ; but they were about equally divided as to whether the horse or the mare came through on the left-hand side. The judges of the start agreed to give it in as even. When they came down, it appeared that one of the outcome judges got angry, and had gone home an hour ago. My friend that looked so many ways for Sunday, after a very ominous...
Página 163 - ... enough to take her up soon. They were now so good and so good, and he proposed they should lead up and take a fair start. " Oh !" said Crump, " I thought that would bring you to your milk, so lead up.
Página 197 - ... for Angling was, after tedious study, ' a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Página 161 - I drank a heap of it yesterday," and then wheel off to the crowd as if intent on something. The race, like all things, had an end , and I had some idea, in imitation of Sardanapalus, " all in one day to see the race, then go home, eat, drink, and be merry, for all the rest was not worth a fillip,