| Henry Howe - 1858 - 592 páginas
...man, dressed in a homespun hunting-shirt, bare legged and moreasined, carried a long and heavy rille, which, as he was loading it, he said had proved efficient in all of his former undertakings, and which ho hoped would not fail on this occasion, as he felt proud to... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 346 páginas
...dressed in a homespun hunting shirt, bare legged, and moccasoned, carried a long and heavy rifle, winch, as he was loading it he said, had proved efficient...wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched •with linen, and the charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step from the place, for the squirrels... | |
| 1870 - 844 páginas
...moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said hud proved cffiaieut in all his former undertakings, and which he hoped...wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched with gix-huudred• thread Linen, and the charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step from... | |
| 1870 - 880 páginas
...hale, and athletic man, dressed in a home-spun hunting-shirt, barelegged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said had proved efficient in all hia former undertakings, and which he hoped would not fail on this occasion, as he felt proud to show... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1872 - 396 páginas
...hale, athletic man, dressed in a home-spun hunting shirt, barelegged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said...wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched' with six hundred thread linen, and a charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step from the place,... | |
| 1876 - 760 páginas
...homespun hunting-shirt, barelegjed, and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, while loading, he said had proved efficient in all his former undertakings,...skill. The gun was wiped, the powder measured, the ball was patched with 600-thread linen, and the charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step... | |
| 1875 - 806 páginas
...moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading, he said had proved efficient in all of his former undertakings, and which he hoped would...wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched with six-hundred-thread linen, and a charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step from the place,... | |
| John Stevens C. Abbott - 1880 - 382 páginas
...hale, athletic man, dressed in a home-spun hunting shirt, bare legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said...wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched with six hundred thread linen, and a charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step from the place,... | |
| John James Audubon - 1897 - 692 páginas
...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...wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched with six-hundred-thread linen, and the charge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not a step from the... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens - 1906 - 520 páginas
...hale, and athletic man, dressed in a homespun huntingshirt, bare-legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said had 10 proved faithful in all his former undertakings, and which he hoped would not fail on this occasion,... | |
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