A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry and Fishing with Chapters on Birds of Prey, the Nidification of Birds and the Habits of British Wild Birds and AnimalsOswald Crawfurd |
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Other editions - View all
A Year of Sport and Natural History; Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry ... Oswald Crawfurd No preview available - 2011 |
A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry ... Oswald Crawfurd No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 223 - Academies, and most of them were founded at the end of the last or beginning of the present century. They owe their origin to the confusion into which schools and departments of schools had come, to the bad condition of the buildings, and to the desire on the part of the authorities and the public to improve the condition of education within their respective bounds.
Page 39 - If I was under any concern, it was on the account of the poor hare, that was now quite spent, and almost within the reach of her enemies; when the huntsman, getting forward, threw down his pole before the dogs. They were now within eight yards of that game which they had been pursuing for almost as many hours; yet on the signal...
Page 260 - Chantrey was placed in the gravel-pit that you will remember just under the Hall. I was standing next to him, but hid from him by the bank formed by the pit. Knowing how keen a sportsman he was, I was amazed at seeing him running up to me without his gun, just at the moment when the hares were passing us in all directions ; but when I saw him waving his Peruvian hat over his head, and distinguished his joyous countenance, I knew that all was right.
Page 245 - Conway, who have shown us every possible attention and kindness during our stay, but before leaving it may not be out of place to offer a few remarks upon the short history of this very distant station.
Page 58 - ... through the short channels of these rivers into the sea. But the water of that sea, unlike that of the German Ocean that washes our eastern shores, is warmed by the soft influence of the Gulf Stream, and the salmon consequently...
Page 320 - I'll do my best ; but the foxes, you see, my Lord, kill a deal of game.' ' But you are not to kill the foxes, nevertheless,' says my Lord. ' By no manner of means, my Lord, on'y you see they ain't always at home ; foxes will travel, and '
Page 328 - Ful many a fat partrich had he in mewe, And many a brem and many a luce in stewe.
Page 57 - The Scottish rivers flowing into the German Ocean are almost all early rivers. They have comparatively long courses, and fall into the sea at considerable distances from their mountain sources, after running during some part of their career through districts not greatly elevated, and possessing a moderate climate. But the German Ocean, into which these...