Wild Sport with Gun, Rifle, and Salmon-rodW.Blackwood, 1903 - 225 sider |
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... look in vain here for the ordinary features of a Highland landscape . There are no great pine - woods covering the hills with their sombre green ; no fringe of graceful birches along the burn - sides and round the lochs ; no narrow well ...
... look in vain here for the ordinary features of a Highland landscape . There are no great pine - woods covering the hills with their sombre green ; no fringe of graceful birches along the burn - sides and round the lochs ; no narrow well ...
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... looks level , but it is in reality the roughest and most tiring country to walk over I have ever seen . Everything must be carried on men's backs . No comfortable fat pony can follow you here , with cartridges and coats and lunch : the ...
... looks level , but it is in reality the roughest and most tiring country to walk over I have ever seen . Everything must be carried on men's backs . No comfortable fat pony can follow you here , with cartridges and coats and lunch : the ...
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... look higher than they really are , owing to their rising so directly from the sea - level . There are many good sportsmen , counting the car- tridges they fire each year by the thousand , who have never shot a wild goose perhaps never ...
... look higher than they really are , owing to their rising so directly from the sea - level . There are many good sportsmen , counting the car- tridges they fire each year by the thousand , who have never shot a wild goose perhaps never ...
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... look of this little hill , marked only by its humble stones , and taken care of by the sheep . Seen as we saw it first on a stormy December Sunday afternoon , there was nothing melan- choly or dreary about it , and its rude and absolute ...
... look of this little hill , marked only by its humble stones , and taken care of by the sheep . Seen as we saw it first on a stormy December Sunday afternoon , there was nothing melan- choly or dreary about it , and its rude and absolute ...
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... look with angry eyes at many birds : at these red- shanks , and at all curlews and herons , and many of the gulls , which really seemed to be in the pay of the geese , and , like the small tick - eaters which live on African game ...
... look with angry eyes at many birds : at these red- shanks , and at all curlews and herons , and many of the gulls , which really seemed to be in the pay of the geese , and , like the small tick - eaters which live on African game ...
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