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... season , as far as a poor decrepit gentleman , very far advanced in years , can be said to do anything . I had taken leave of my kind , hospitable friends , and was sitting disconsolately at my club , with the prospect of returning that ...
... season , as far as a poor decrepit gentleman , very far advanced in years , can be said to do anything . I had taken leave of my kind , hospitable friends , and was sitting disconsolately at my club , with the prospect of returning that ...
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... season . Bergen is an awfully hot place when the sun is well out , as it was during my stay ; and if it was always so , I would as soon live at Cheltenham as there in summer ; and that is saying a good deal . But , as I said before , it ...
... season . Bergen is an awfully hot place when the sun is well out , as it was during my stay ; and if it was always so , I would as soon live at Cheltenham as there in summer ; and that is saying a good deal . But , as I said before , it ...
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... season - water was low , sun bright , and you had about as much chance of a bear , better even , than of a salmon . So I went to bed that night at peace and harmony with all the world , and good terms with myself , in spite of the ...
... season - water was low , sun bright , and you had about as much chance of a bear , better even , than of a salmon . So I went to bed that night at peace and harmony with all the world , and good terms with myself , in spite of the ...
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... season it was . I walked back to Throndhjem , plase your honour . On Monday , though I knew it to be the triumph of hope over experience , I walked out to Mr. Oneson's house and had a capital luncheon , or dinner , with him , at one ...
... season it was . I walked back to Throndhjem , plase your honour . On Monday , though I knew it to be the triumph of hope over experience , I walked out to Mr. Oneson's house and had a capital luncheon , or dinner , with him , at one ...
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... season it is the tamest of sports , as the cocks are then moulting . You must not shoot the hens , and when the cocks have got their proper plumage , they take care of themselves . But my shoot- ing had been on muirland , with a ...
... season it is the tamest of sports , as the cocks are then moulting . You must not shoot the hens , and when the cocks have got their proper plumage , they take care of themselves . But my shoot- ing had been on muirland , with a ...
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bad weather beautiful bipeds birds black-game blackcock boat buccaneer capercailzie captain carriole cast CHAPTER charming coasting steamer cocks comfortable commenced Daniel Lambert dark day's shooting deal deck deer Doggie fellow ffiord fish forest fortable quarters friend's servant gentleman gigan gilly going Gordon setter grand half hawk heart Hebrides hill hove-to Hull Humber hunting county incubus juniper Kelpie Killarney killed knew lake of Killarney land light loch London look lovely streams morning mountains Namsen never saw nice night Norway Norwegian o'clock Oneson open sea ourselves ponies Pool of London poomp Prince Quaker quietly rain ravine reach Bergen rivers rocks Ryper salmon-fishing sea-lochs season seen shelter shore Sixty-one snipes soon sort Spean stag storm Stornoway stream thing thought Throndhjem Thuringer Wald Tolk took town trees voyage wegian wild wind wood woodcocks young
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