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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... March , which they now enjoy , and which he has himself advocated in order to increase the general size of salmon in the river , might perhaps with advantage be curtailed . The rapidity with which the water now drains off the land owing ...
... March , which they now enjoy , and which he has himself advocated in order to increase the general size of salmon in the river , might perhaps with advantage be curtailed . The rapidity with which the water now drains off the land owing ...
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... march , one or two of these important personages follow mounted immediately behind the Sheik , " with a hooded falcon on the wrist , one on the shoulder , and another on the top of his head . " The Houbara Bustard is the favourite ...
... march , one or two of these important personages follow mounted immediately behind the Sheik , " with a hooded falcon on the wrist , one on the shoulder , and another on the top of his head . " The Houbara Bustard is the favourite ...
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... March Brown , but with a slow , deliberate and dignified suck , rising time after time in the same spot . Each fish gulps down the flies that come over him , hardly noticing those that float only a few inches out of his own line . Hence ...
... March Brown , but with a slow , deliberate and dignified suck , rising time after time in the same spot . Each fish gulps down the flies that come over him , hardly noticing those that float only a few inches out of his own line . Hence ...
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... MARCH BROWN . " The Hunt ys upp . " Sayth Salamons songe , fayre aege and long Is mayde by a spyryte goode , And syth it is soo , to your dysportes goo By streme or merrie greene wood . The Huntyrs horne wakes the uppe morne , And hawk ...
... MARCH BROWN . " The Hunt ys upp . " Sayth Salamons songe , fayre aege and long Is mayde by a spyryte goode , And syth it is soo , to your dysportes goo By streme or merrie greene wood . The Huntyrs horne wakes the uppe morne , And hawk ...
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... March 28 , 1879. — I find that Tom has just died , and as the woman tells me , with tone and speech as if she dreaded there was something ominous or unlucky in it , " on the same day as her dear baby . " Both were evidently included in ...
... March 28 , 1879. — I find that Tom has just died , and as the woman tells me , with tone and speech as if she dreaded there was something ominous or unlucky in it , " on the same day as her dear baby . " Both were evidently included in ...
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Página 66 - 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 132 - Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
Página 158 - 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 89 - 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 142 - ... 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 89 - 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 47 - 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 91 - 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 65 - 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.