The Dog in Health and Disease: Comprising the Various Modes of Breaking and Using Him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Etc., and Including the Points Or Characteristics of Toy DogsLongmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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... Covert Shooting . - Wildfowl - Shooting .-- Ferreting BOOK III . THE DISEASES OF THE DOG AND THEIR TREATMENT . CHAPTER I. PECULIARITIES IN THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE DOG . The Skeleton , including the Teeth . - The Muscular ...
... Covert Shooting . - Wildfowl - Shooting .-- Ferreting BOOK III . THE DISEASES OF THE DOG AND THEIR TREATMENT . CHAPTER I. PECULIARITIES IN THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE DOG . The Skeleton , including the Teeth . - The Muscular ...
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... covert , and sterns feathered like the ordinary foxhound . The endurance of the staghound is very con- siderable , though from his extra size and weight he cannot com- pete in this respect with the foxhound of 23 inches ; but as he is ...
... covert , and sterns feathered like the ordinary foxhound . The endurance of the staghound is very con- siderable , though from his extra size and weight he cannot com- pete in this respect with the foxhound of 23 inches ; but as he is ...
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... covert , Painfully tugs , or in the thorny brake , Torn and embarrass'd , bleeds : but , if too small , The pigmy brood in every furrow swims ; Moil'd in the clogging clay , panting , they lag Behind inglorious ; or else shivering creep ...
... covert , Painfully tugs , or in the thorny brake , Torn and embarrass'd , bleeds : but , if too small , The pigmy brood in every furrow swims ; Moil'd in the clogging clay , panting , they lag Behind inglorious ; or else shivering creep ...
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... covert different from that in which he was found . On the other hand , the harrier casts back , from a knowledge , instinctive or acquired , that the hare has a tendency to return to the place from which she started , and will be almost ...
... covert different from that in which he was found . On the other hand , the harrier casts back , from a knowledge , instinctive or acquired , that the hare has a tendency to return to the place from which she started , and will be almost ...
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... covert where they have permission . The fashion of the day is to demand pace in all kinds of hunting , and for this reason these dwarf foxhounds are selected , taking care to unite with it as fine 64 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
... covert where they have permission . The fashion of the day is to demand pace in all kinds of hunting , and for this reason these dwarf foxhounds are selected , taking care to unite with it as fine 64 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
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