A Highland Gathering by E. Lennox PeelLongmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - 185 páginas Retells the story of Noah, the ark, and the flood from the point of view of the animals. |
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Allodale antlered Aweel beast big stag broadside bullet burn Caenlochan chance Charlie Charlie Ross Clootie coach comes corrie coup de grâce Craig-en-gash Cresswell culvert deer deer-saddle Duncan Macleod eyes feeding fifty yards fish forest craft forest ground frosty gillie glass Glen Brayne grand grouse Hamish head heather herd Highland hill hinds horns hour hundred yards keen keep knoll laird landrails Lennox Loch Lydoch Loch Rannoch Lochnagar Lone Glen look lying Maclennan miles mind minutes mist morning muckle hart never once onwards pace party peat Peter Pitlochry pony pounds weight ridge rifle river rocks Ross rowan-trees Scotland season sheep shepherds shieling shooting Short Brae shot side sight Sir Duncan skyline slopes slugs snow soon sport sportsmen stalk stalker startled Strathaven Strathbracken Strathconan telescope to-day trot trout turned White Craig wild Wimbledon wind
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Página 178 - Is it for muskets or small field-pieces? Upon my conscience, Mr. Acres, you must leave those things to me. — Stay now — I'll show you. — [Measures paces along the stage.] There now, that is a very pretty distance — a pretty gentleman's distance. Acres.
Página 117 - ... last under yon overhanging ' scaur ' upon the farther side. He rose short the first time, but as the flies dropped lightly over him again, he jumped clean out of the water in his eagerness to make sure of the dainty, and the fly is far down in his throat when the landing-net claims him for its owr>.
Página 113 - SPRINGTIME BY THE RIVER. WHEN the first faint shimmer of silvery green comes athwart the larches, green that is kindled when the sunlight plays upon it into the tenderest colour upon earth, nothing can be pleasanter than to wander down to the river-side. What if it be early yet to make a full basket, and only...
Página 115 - Plantation, which looks as if ' velveteens ' had something to say to these rapacious marauders amid the spring-sown wheat. It is so warm now at midday that we put up our rod, though we had thought when we brought it with us that we were little likely to use it. Yet there is a balmy mellow feeling in the air that tempts us to essay the gentle craft once more, and after...
Página 115 - ... wood-pigeons ceaselessly fly to and fro about the wooded uplands, and their soft and soothing note blends in our ears with the melodious babbling of the rapid river. Restless and greedy birds they are, we fear, more beautiful than virtuous, and do more harm to the farmers than all the gameThe uneasy mother.
Página 114 - ... a dozen of the speckled trout are taken from the stream in a day ? Still, to nature's true lovers, tender memories are awakened by the springtime of the year. The birds are fluttering and toying in every tree, as we wend our way down towards the river. The warmth of the sun to-day...