Dog and Gun: A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among which Will be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents

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Orange Judd, Agricultural Book Publishers, 1856 - 99 páginas

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Página 93 - I did not observe any thing obstructing the biliary ducts. In other instances, I have also observed the eyes looking yellow. The above is a description of the disease in its severest form; but in this, as in the diseases of the human body, there is every gradation in its violence. There is also another affinity to some human diseases, viz. that the animal which has once gone through it, very rarely meets with a second attack. Fortunately, this distemper is not communicable to man. Neither the effluvia...
Página 1 - See how the well-taught pointer leads the way: The scent grows warm ; he stops ; he springs the prey : % The fluttering coveys from the stubble rise, And on swift wing divide the sounding skies; The scattering lead pursues the certain sight, And death in thunder overtakes their flight.
Página 93 - In this state, he sometimes lingers on till the third or fourth week, and then either begins to show, signs of returning health (which seldom happens when the symptoms have continued with this degree of violence) or expires. During convalescence, he has sometimes, though rarely, profuse haemorrhage from the nose. When the inflammation of the lungs is very severe, he frequently dies on the third day. I knew one instance of a dog's...
Página 91 - Society. — It may be difficult, perhaps, precisely to ascertain the period of its first appearance in Britain. In this and the neighbouring counties, I have not been able to trace it back much beyond the middle of the last century ; but it has since spread universally. I knew a gentleman who, about forty-five years ago, destroyed the greater part of his hounds, from supposing them mad, when the distemper first broke out among them ; so little was it then known by those the most conversant with...
Página 91 - ... most conversant with dogs. On the continent, I find it has been known for a much longer period. It is as contagious among dogs as the small-pox, measles, or scarlet fever among the human species ; and the contagious miasmata, like those arising from the diseases just mentioned, retain their infectious properties a long time after separation from the distempered animal.
Página 64 - It will stay there, be sure ; and you will find them far more certainly after half an hour has elapsed. For myself, I have found it the best plan, where woods are small, and the covert thick, to go on beating the open fields, without following the bevies at all, in the first instance, marking them down carefully when they rise, until the feeding and running hour has passed, — then to follow bevy after bevy, whither you have seen them alight ; and knowing their whereabout, if not the exact spot...
Página 93 - So uncontroulable were his prepossessions, that Mr. Hunter conceived he would have died, had not the dog which inflicted the wound been fortunately found and brought into his room in perfect health. This soon restored his mind to a state of tranquillity. The sight of water no longer affected him, and...

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