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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... shot , and a moderate - sized red worm for bait . Off with our shoes and stockings , tuck up our trousers , then cautiously and quietly pushing through the under- wood , we enter the water and wade through the flags , which reach as ...
... shot , and a moderate - sized red worm for bait . Off with our shoes and stockings , tuck up our trousers , then cautiously and quietly pushing through the under- wood , we enter the water and wade through the flags , which reach as ...
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... shot some time ago . He also informed me that he had killed an osprey here , and that another had been seen haunting one of the meres . Altogether the district of the Shropshire meres presents a rich field , both to the observer of ...
... shot some time ago . He also informed me that he had killed an osprey here , and that another had been seen haunting one of the meres . Altogether the district of the Shropshire meres presents a rich field , both to the observer of ...
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... shot with , " pointing to some gun - cotton cartridges , then lately invented . " They shoot with such little noise , they do not foul the barrel , and they will kill a good five yards further than gunpowder . I have just invested in a ...
... shot with , " pointing to some gun - cotton cartridges , then lately invented . " They shoot with such little noise , they do not foul the barrel , and they will kill a good five yards further than gunpowder . I have just invested in a ...
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... shot . You may possibly kill three or four . I would come with you , but I have some letters to write . " Nothing loth , I started off across the paddock to the wood . It was composed of larch and fir - trees which grew rather wide ...
... shot . You may possibly kill three or four . I would come with you , but I have some letters to write . " Nothing loth , I started off across the paddock to the wood . It was composed of larch and fir - trees which grew rather wide ...
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... shot at all times , and shooting him on his perch is nothing less than butchery . There is no sport in kill- ing feræ naturæ unless some " law " is given them . Although I take the trouble to give this explanation , I do not expect ...
... shot at all times , and shooting him on his perch is nothing less than butchery . There is no sport in kill- ing feræ naturæ unless some " law " is given them . Although I take the trouble to give this explanation , I do not expect ...
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