The art of deer-stalkingJohn Murray, 1838 - 15 Seiten |
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Seite 312 - 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 401 - ... 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 127 - Highness' musicians placed ; and a cross-bow, by a nymph with a sweet song, was delivered into her hands to shoot at the deere ; about some thirty were put into a paddock, of which number she killed three or four, and the Countess of Kildare, one...
Seite 327 - Tis gladness to ride By the peep of dawn o'er the dewy moors. For the sportsmen have mounted the topmost crags, And the fleet dogs bound o'er the mossy hags, And the mist clears off", as the lagging sun With his first ray gleams on the glancing gun, And the startled grouse and the blackcock...
Seite 400 - ... 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 66 - June, 1747, the body of a woman was found six feet deep, in a peat-moor in the Isle of Axholm, in Lincolnshire. The antique sandals on her feet afforded evidence of her having been buried there for many ages ; yet her nails, hair, and skin, are described as having shown hardly any marks of decay.
Seite 401 - ... compass, they do bring, or chase in the deer, in many herds, (two, three, or four hundred in a herd,) to such...
Seite 182 - Scotland, and that there should be such honesty and policy in it, 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 place in a fire, that the king and ambassador might see it.
Seite 134 - The most perfect shots and celebrated sportsmen never succeed in killing deer without practice ; indeed, at first they are quite sure to miss the fairest running shots. This arises, I think, from their firing at distances to which they have been wholly unaccustomed, and is no reflection upon their skill. It is seldom that you fire at a less distance than a hundred yards, and this is as near as I would wish to get. The usual range will be between this and two hundred yards, beyond which, as a general...
Seite 182 - Then the king answered the ambassador, and said, ' It is the use of our Highlandmen, though they be never so well lodged, to burn their lodgings when they depart.