The Angler's Note-book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry and Discussion on Field-sports and Subjects of Natural HistoryW. Satchell, 1880 - 192 páginas |
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... manner she soon captured half - a - dozen , and was then driven away ; from that evening the well was always covered with a net , which scared puss into enforced honesty . By nature cats love dry , warmth , and sun- shine , whilst they ...
... manner she soon captured half - a - dozen , and was then driven away ; from that evening the well was always covered with a net , which scared puss into enforced honesty . By nature cats love dry , warmth , and sun- shine , whilst they ...
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... manner without further preparation . The flavour was excellent , and he thinks no one could have suspected that the salmon was caught five months previously , and had travelled some thousands of miles in a frozen state . A serious ...
... manner without further preparation . The flavour was excellent , and he thinks no one could have suspected that the salmon was caught five months previously , and had travelled some thousands of miles in a frozen state . A serious ...
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... manner . The establishment of iron - works on many of the Welsh streams put an end alike to the fish and the practice . A note of its former existence may be preserved in the Note - Book , which seems designed to serve a most useful ...
... manner . The establishment of iron - works on many of the Welsh streams put an end alike to the fish and the practice . A note of its former existence may be preserved in the Note - Book , which seems designed to serve a most useful ...
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... manner than by the marble slabs on which their epi- taphs are engraved : — Moco . Hoc in loco Jacet Moco ; Frustra voco Moco , Moco ! UNA . E pluribus una . SPOT . Tache sans tache . " Epitaph on a dog left by a brother officer in the ...
... manner than by the marble slabs on which their epi- taphs are engraved : — Moco . Hoc in loco Jacet Moco ; Frustra voco Moco , Moco ! UNA . E pluribus una . SPOT . Tache sans tache . " Epitaph on a dog left by a brother officer in the ...
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... manner , and in as few words as possible . Word painting " and " fine writing " would be out of place in our pages . A. H. , junior ; P. I .; Rev. W. G .; Rev. W. H .; J. J. R. ( Bayswater ) ; C. C. C .; T. E. G .; H. W. ( Warwick ...
... manner , and in as few words as possible . Word painting " and " fine writing " would be out of place in our pages . A. H. , junior ; P. I .; Rev. W. G .; Rev. W. H .; J. J. R. ( Bayswater ) ; C. C. C .; T. E. G .; H. W. ( Warwick ...
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Página 68 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 134 - Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
Página 160 - A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire In killing a Pike : but the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder, — and that other fine trick, Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck, — Will kill two for one, if you have any luck ; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile. When a Pike suns himself, and a-frogging doth go, The two-inched hook is better, I know, Than the ord'nary snaring. But still...
Página 91 - Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding and many dangers accompany them ; but this is still and quiet : and if so be the angler catch no Fish, yet he hath a wholesome walk to the Brook side, pleasant shade by the sweet silver streams ; he hath good air.
Página 132 - Once I was a monarch's daughter, And sat on a lady's knee ; But am now a nightly rover, Banish'd to the ivy tree, " Crying, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, boo, hoo, Hoo, hoo, hoo, my feet are cold ! Pity me, for here you see me, Persecuted, poor, and old.
Página 144 - ... many days after birth : for the young ones, supposed to break through the belly of the dam, will, upon any fright, for protection run into it ; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they will return again ;9 which is a peculiar way of refuge...
Página 91 - But he that shall consider the variety of baits for all seasons, and pretty devices which our anglers have invented, peculiar lines, false flies, several sleights...
Página 49 - It is natural to imagine that, when a slight wound only is inflicted, the game will make its escape. Far otherwise; the Wourali poison...
Página 93 - O'er ten square leagues his far diverging heads ; Or in one trunk entwists his tangled form, Looks o'er the clouds, and hisses in the storm: Steeped in fell poison, as his sharp teeth part, A thousand tongues in quick vibration dart ; Snatch the proud eagle towering o'er the heath, Or pounce the lion as he stalks beneath ; Or strew, as marshall'd hosts contend in vain With human skeletons the whiten'd plain.
Página 67 - Whoever will follow these pages, crayfish in hand, and will try to verify for himself the statements which they contain, will find himself brought face to face with all the great zoological questions which excite so lively an interest at the present day.