Sporting Scenes and Country CharactersLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 332 Seiten |
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ALKEN amongst animal bait battue beautiful birds chace cock commences considerable distance course cover coveys deer delightful destruction DICKES diversion dogs ducks earth effect enabled enjoyment escape especially extremely favourite feed feeling field fieldfare fish float fishing fly-fisher fox hunter fox hunting gamekeeper greyhound ground grouse gunner habits hare haunts hedge-row horse hunter huntsman immediately invariably jack snipe keeper kennel killed knows labour landrail large number leave lover lurcher mole-catcher never night occasions otter owner pack partridge perfect pheasant pike poacher possesses pot-hunter present preserved purpose pursued pursuit qualities rabbit-catcher rabbits racter rat-catcher resolution resort Reynard ride rience scene scent season secure shooter shooting shot skill snipe sport spot stag hunting stoat stream tion Tom Moody traps tree trout true sportsman turn vermin W.DICKES weasel weather whilst whipper-in whips whole woods young hounds
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Seite 158 - But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
Seite 277 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other.
Seite 86 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Seite 215 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! The moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awaked ! [Music ceases.
Seite 28 - Dispersed, how busily this way and that, They cross, examining with curious nose Each likely haunt. Hark! on the drag I hear Their doubtful notes, preluding to a cry More nobly full, and swelled with every mouth.
Seite 102 - Should two hares be on foot, and the dogs separate before reaching the hare slipped at, the course shall be undecided, and shall be run over again at such time as the committee shall think fit, unless the owners of the dogs agree to toss for it, or to draw one dog...
Seite 98 - Those who are chosen judges of the leash shall give their judgments presently before they depart from the field, or else he, in whose default it lieth, shall pay the wager by a general voice and sentence.
Seite 102 - If a greyhound stand still in a course when a hare is in his or her sight, the owner shall lose the course ; but if a greyhound drop from exhaustion, and it shall be the opinion of the judge that the merit up to the time of falling was greatly in his or her favour, then the judge shall have power to award the course to the greyhound so falling, if he think fit.
Seite 99 - The time of putting the first brace of dogs in the slips shall be declared at the dinner on the day preceding. If a prize is to be run for, and only one dog is ready, he shall run a bye, and his owner shall receive forfeit: should neither be ready, the course shall be run when the committee shall think fit. In a match, if only one dog be ready, his owner shall receive forfeit: if neither be present, the match shall be placed last in the list.
Seite 67 - ... and his poor old Master (as he term'd it) for ever. . . . I am sole Executor, and ye bulk of ye Fortune is left to me. . . . Six and twenty Shillings, real and bona fide Stirling Cash, free from all incumbrances, after every debt, discharg'd to a Farthing.