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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... head would pop up to suck some insect down , with a sounding gulp that would make our hearts beat faster with excitement than they have ever done since . Our tarn was situated in a hollow on a top of a hill , and had a very boggy and ...
... head would pop up to suck some insect down , with a sounding gulp that would make our hearts beat faster with excitement than they have ever done since . Our tarn was situated in a hollow on a top of a hill , and had a very boggy and ...
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... heads ; then , fixing each foot firmly on a root , we drop the lines as gently as possible into the water . How quiet everything is ! A heron stands patiently on the shallows , and another is trying , with ludicrously unsuccessful ...
... heads ; then , fixing each foot firmly on a root , we drop the lines as gently as possible into the water . How quiet everything is ! A heron stands patiently on the shallows , and another is trying , with ludicrously unsuccessful ...
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... head and neck above water ; or a fox would steal along by the rushes , on the look - out for some sleeping water - fowl . Before leaving , too , we used to climb up to the ledge of rocks which overhung the vale , and take a glimpse at ...
... head and neck above water ; or a fox would steal along by the rushes , on the look - out for some sleeping water - fowl . Before leaving , too , we used to climb up to the ledge of rocks which overhung the vale , and take a glimpse at ...
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... head , and useless for food , massacred - there is no other word for it . The pike sometimes run large , but of late years few big ones have been captured . The trimmers are baited with dead roach , and , luckily for the pike and the ...
... head , and useless for food , massacred - there is no other word for it . The pike sometimes run large , but of late years few big ones have been captured . The trimmers are baited with dead roach , and , luckily for the pike and the ...
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... head of a great crested grebe , swimming low in the water , to escape observation . There ! it dives suddenly ; by - and - by it will reappear at some distance , and , if it thinks you are not looking , will rise out of the water until ...
... head of a great crested grebe , swimming low in the water , to escape observation . There ! it dives suddenly ; by - and - by it will reappear at some distance , and , if it thinks you are not looking , will rise out of the water until ...
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