The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds and Wild Fowl of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1857 - 478 páginas |
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... duck , in company , yet I know full well your partiality for the country , as also your early fondness for field and rural sports ; and , if you had not been so early engrossed by professional duties , I doubt not that you would have ...
... duck , in company , yet I know full well your partiality for the country , as also your early fondness for field and rural sports ; and , if you had not been so early engrossed by professional duties , I doubt not that you would have ...
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... Ducks , fed on celery , 272 . Barrels , leading of , how freed , 398 . Bar - shooting , 297 . Bartram , statement respecting young Rails , 220 . Bastard - wing , description of , 34 . Ambush , erected on the flats , 292 . how ...
... Ducks , fed on celery , 272 . Barrels , leading of , how freed , 398 . Bar - shooting , 297 . Bartram , statement respecting young Rails , 220 . Bastard - wing , description of , 34 . Ambush , erected on the flats , 292 . how ...
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... ducks on , 278 . Butter - ball , ( see Buffel - headed Duck , ) 320 . C CANADA GOOSE , ( see Goose , ) 329 . Grouse , 164 . Grouse met with in , 164 . Canard Cheval , 272 . Cannon , antiquity of , 432 . Canvas - back , 267 . Anas ...
... ducks on , 278 . Butter - ball , ( see Buffel - headed Duck , ) 320 . C CANADA GOOSE , ( see Goose , ) 329 . Grouse , 164 . Grouse met with in , 164 . Canard Cheval , 272 . Cannon , antiquity of , 432 . Canvas - back , 267 . Anas ...
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... Ducks , art of shooting , 299 . toling , 274 . further instructions on shooting , 301 . Duck Island , experiments at , 265 . Duckers , hints for , 264 . Dug - outs , description of , 281 . Dun - birds of England , 308 . Dupont ...
... Ducks , art of shooting , 299 . toling , 274 . further instructions on shooting , 301 . Duck Island , experiments at , 265 . Duckers , hints for , 264 . Dug - outs , description of , 281 . Dun - birds of England , 308 . Dupont ...
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... Ducks , 104 . sportsmen should kill , 104 . Heels , galled , how to treat , 500 . Hellebore , Quails feed on , 81 . their flesh poisoned by , 81 . Hemorrhage , to preserve wounded bird from , 490 . to stop accidental , 508 . Henry IV ...
... Ducks , 104 . sportsmen should kill , 104 . Heels , galled , how to treat , 500 . Hellebore , Quails feed on , 81 . their flesh poisoned by , 81 . Hemorrhage , to preserve wounded bird from , 490 . to stop accidental , 508 . Henry IV ...
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The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting ... Elisha Jarrett Lewis Visualização integral - 1863 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
barrel become better bill BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER boat boots breast brood brown canvas-backs Chesapeake Chesapeake Bay circumstance cock color common snipe consequently considerable cook course covered covey dark decoys distance dogs drachms ducks dusky early eggs English entirely epicures fact favorable feeding feeding-grounds feet field fire flesh flight frequently game-birds ground gunsmith habits hand hare head hunt inches incubation killed larvæ legs less load long-billed curlew mandible marshes matter metal neck nest never numbers observed ounces pale particularly partridges perfectly perhaps pheasant piece plover plumage portion powder rails readers reed-birds reeds remarks resort ruffed grouse season seldom shooter shot side snipe soon soras species sporting friends sportsman spot spring squirrels sufficient tail tion tree tridges turkey variety weather whole wild fowl wild turkey Wilson's snipe wing woodcock Zizania aquatica
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Página 202 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And...
Página 493 - By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food ; Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Página 459 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else'.
Página 45 - mid the brown mountain heather, Where the Pilgrim of Nature* lay stretched in decay, Like the corpse of an outcast abandoned to weather, Till the mountain winds wasted the tenantless clay. Nor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much-loved remains of her master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away.
Página 337 - The stately-sailing Swan Gives out his snowy Plumage to the Gale; And, arching proud his Neck, with oary Feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his Osier-Isle, Protective of his Young.
Página 45 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start? How many long days and long weeks didst thou number, Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart? And, oh, was it meet, that— no requiem read o'er him— No mother to weep, and no friend to deplore him, And thou, little guardian, alone stretched before him— Unhonour'd the Pilgrim from life should depart?
Página 430 - India, avoided this people also, and, having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer them. They made no show of resistance ; but upon the enemy's near approach to their cities they were repulsed with storms of lightning and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above.
Página 269 - ... gray, with numerous specks of blackish ; primaries and secondaries, pale slate, two or three of the latter of which nearest the body are finely edged with deep velvety black, the former dusky at the tips ; tail, very short, pointed, consisting of fourteen feathers of a hoary brown ; vent and...
Página 67 - Pennsylvania, is nine inches long, and fourteen inches in extent ; the bill is black ; line over the eye, down the neck, and whole chin, pure white, bounded by a band of black, which descends and spreads broadly over the throat ; the eye is dark hazel ; crown, neck, and upper part of the breast, red brown ; sides of the neck spotted with white and black, on a reddish brown ground ; back, scapulars and lesser coverts, red brown, intermixed with ash, and sprinkled with black ; tertials edged with...
Página 318 - ... rich green; tertials edged with black or light blue, and streaked down their middle with white ; the tail, which is pointed, extends two inches beyond the wings; legs and feet yellow, the latter very small; the two crescents of white before the eyes meet on the throat. " The female differs in having the head and neck of a dull, dusky slate, instead of the rich violet of the male; the hind head is also whitish ; the wavings on the back and lower parts more indistinct ; wing nearly the same in...