Dog and Gun: A Few Loose Chapters on ShootingC. M. Saxton, Barker & Company, 1860 - 99 páginas |
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... heather ; the dun - colored tweed waistcoat and trousers , undistinguishable from the tints of the faded grass and ling ; the stout yet light and easy shoes ; the leather an- kle - gaiters ; the purple - cloth shooting cap , with a tuft ...
... heather ; the dun - colored tweed waistcoat and trousers , undistinguishable from the tints of the faded grass and ling ; the stout yet light and easy shoes ; the leather an- kle - gaiters ; the purple - cloth shooting cap , with a tuft ...
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... heather on which they had been bleached , and lulled by the ceaseless brawling of the mountain brook which foamed down its gorge close beneath the window , I , for one , sank asleep so soon as my head touched the pillow , and dreamed of ...
... heather on which they had been bleached , and lulled by the ceaseless brawling of the mountain brook which foamed down its gorge close beneath the window , I , for one , sank asleep so soon as my head touched the pillow , and dreamed of ...
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... heather , sometimes by mossy bogs , whence steal the rills which , gradually swelling into burns , as the larger brooks are termed , pour down through the ghylls or gorges which they cut for themselves through the peat , the gravel ...
... heather , sometimes by mossy bogs , whence steal the rills which , gradually swelling into burns , as the larger brooks are termed , pour down through the ghylls or gorges which they cut for themselves through the peat , the gravel ...
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... heather , springing fresh from places over which the fire has run in the latest autumn of the past year . Nevertheless , with all the desolation , there was a sort of peculiar wild beauty , arising for the most pari from the singular ...
... heather , springing fresh from places over which the fire has run in the latest autumn of the past year . Nevertheless , with all the desolation , there was a sort of peculiar wild beauty , arising for the most pari from the singular ...
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... heather was in bloom the whole super- fices of hundreds and hundreds of acres was glowing with the most gorgeous hues of amythyst , garnet , and rubies ; where the dry stalks and sere leaves of the later and older growth prevailed , all ...
... heather was in bloom the whole super- fices of hundreds and hundreds of acres was glowing with the most gorgeous hues of amythyst , garnet , and rubies ; where the dry stalks and sere leaves of the later and older growth prevailed , all ...
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