Mountain, Meadow, & Mere: A Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History ...Henry S. King & Company, 1873 - 226 páginas |
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... branches of a fir . A wild duck leads her brood by the rushes , while nodding water - hens and white - headed coots intersect the water . What curious little black balls the young water - hens are ! Hillo ! what's that ? A splash that ...
... branches of a fir . A wild duck leads her brood by the rushes , while nodding water - hens and white - headed coots intersect the water . What curious little black balls the young water - hens are ! Hillo ! what's that ? A splash that ...
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... branches . The male swan swims slowly and statelily around the island where his mate is sitting , and at the jar of the branches sallies forth to attack the invader , whose only hope of deliverance lies in instant flight . Some years ...
... branches . The male swan swims slowly and statelily around the island where his mate is sitting , and at the jar of the branches sallies forth to attack the invader , whose only hope of deliverance lies in instant flight . Some years ...
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... branch or post ; and often during the summer the presence of white - winged , graceful terns adds an additional charm to the mere . To a sportsman's eye nothing is more distasteful than the hundreds of trimmers scattered over the sur ...
... branch or post ; and often during the summer the presence of white - winged , graceful terns adds an additional charm to the mere . To a sportsman's eye nothing is more distasteful than the hundreds of trimmers scattered over the sur ...
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... branches in the wood , and so was lost At once the silence and the song . I lay As one awaked , and watched the misty cloud Enclose the starlit meadow in its shroud , Then took the oars , and silent rowed away . V. SCOULTON GULLERY A ...
... branches in the wood , and so was lost At once the silence and the song . I lay As one awaked , and watched the misty cloud Enclose the starlit meadow in its shroud , Then took the oars , and silent rowed away . V. SCOULTON GULLERY A ...
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... branches . The eggs are generally three in number , and of a yellowish olive brown , spotted with darker brown ; but , as in the case of the guillemot's egg , there is great variety in the colour . Sometimes they are of light ...
... branches . The eggs are generally three in number , and of a yellowish olive brown , spotted with darker brown ; but , as in the case of the guillemot's egg , there is great variety in the colour . Sometimes they are of light ...
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