The Art of Deer-stalking: Illustrated by a Narrative of a Few Days' Sport in the Forest of Atholl, with Some Account of the Nature and Habits of Red Deer, and a Short Description of the Scotch Forests; Legends, Superstitions, Stories of Poachers and Freebooters ...J. Murray, 1839 - 436 Seiten |
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amongst animal antlers Badenoch beast Ben-y-gloe Ben-y-venie Blair Blair Castle braes Bruar Lodge burn Cairn called chance chase Cluny Macpherson Corrie crags Dairg deer-hounds deer-stalker Derig distance dogs Donald Donald Farquharson Duke Duke of Atholl fire followed forest of Atholl forward Gaelic give Glen Tilt Glengarry gralloch greyhound ground hart head heard heather herd Highland hill hill-men hinds horns hounds hunting John Crerar joost keep killed legs length Lightfoot Loch Loch Rannoch Lochaber look Lord Maclaren Macpherson miles moor moss mountain never night noble o'er once pace party pass peat Peter Fraser precipice quiet shot red deer rifle river rock Sandy Scotland seen side sight soon sport sportsman spot stag stalker stalking steep stone Sutherland thing Tortoise turned venison whilst whiskey wild wind woods wounded deer
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Seite 131 - Nay, then,' replies the feeble fox, ' (But hark! I hear a hen that clocks) Go, but be moderate in your food; A chicken too might do me good.
Seite 411 - ... lick their own fingers; for, besides their bows and arrows, which they carry with them, we can hear, now and then, a harquebuss or a musket go off, which they do seldom discharge in vain.
Seite 57 - Not the semblance of a deer can I see; but I'll take your word for it : I dare say he is there, since you say so. And now explain to me how you mean to get at him : communicate, my good fellow ; for it seems, by all your caution, that even at this distance you dare not show a hair of your head.
Seite 411 - ... and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain ; which after are disposed of, some one way and some another, twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough left for us to make merry withal at our rendezvous.
Seite 411 - Tinckhell, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then all the valley on each side being waylaid with a hundred couple of strong Irish greyhounds, they are let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks, and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain...
Seite 410 - ... of fourteen or fifteen hundred men and horses. The manner of the hunting is this : Five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and...
Seite 323 - MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Seite iv - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here. My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart 's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Seite 188 - ... especially in the Highland where there was but wood and wilderness. But most of all, this ambassador marvelled to see when the king departed, and all his men took their leave, the Highlandmen set all this fair place on a fire, that the king and the ambassador might see it. " Then the ambassador said to the king, ' I marvel, sir, that you should thole (16) yon fair place to be burnt that your Grace hath been so well lodged in...
Seite 22 - ... they swim powerless about him, and would die from cold and fatigue before they could make the least impression on him. Sometimes he will stand upon a rock in the midst of the river, making a most majestic appearance ; and in this case it will always be found that the spot on which he stands is not approachable on his rear. In this situation he takes such a sweep with his antlers that he could exterminate a whole pack of the most powerful lurchers that were pressing too closely upon him in front....