Wild Sport with Gun, Rifle, and Salmon-rodW.Blackwood, 1903 - 225 sider |
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... sides and round the lochs ; no narrow well - defined straths and glens . On some of these islands - great stretches of country , thirty or forty miles long - you will not see a tree at all , large or small . On a particular shooting of ...
... sides and round the lochs ; no narrow well - defined straths and glens . On some of these islands - great stretches of country , thirty or forty miles long - you will not see a tree at all , large or small . On a particular shooting of ...
Side 15
... side of it at a deer . The geese were a hundred yards away , but they noticed something the moment the head was raised a few inches ; and when after a long wait it was as slowly and deliberately lowered , they were up and away without ...
... side of it at a deer . The geese were a hundred yards away , but they noticed something the moment the head was raised a few inches ; and when after a long wait it was as slowly and deliberately lowered , they were up and away without ...
Side 29
... side ; sometimes by a very little , but a miss in this work was veritably as good as a mile . A chance boat sailing lazily along to some island for peats would come in sight just before a stalk was finished ; some far - away fisherman ...
... side ; sometimes by a very little , but a miss in this work was veritably as good as a mile . A chance boat sailing lazily along to some island for peats would come in sight just before a stalk was finished ; some far - away fisherman ...
Side 35
... side . And now we committed the only mistake in the carefully worked - out little attack : instead of waiting for the third swan to swing round nearer as he rose against the wind - instead of waiting and reserving our fire - we ought to ...
... side . And now we committed the only mistake in the carefully worked - out little attack : instead of waiting for the third swan to swing round nearer as he rose against the wind - instead of waiting and reserving our fire - we ought to ...
Side 39
... side of caution and incur no risk . Down one of the smaller streams two men and a woman - the father and brother and sister of the tailor of the waste - were passing in the dim light of early morning many years ago with a boat - load of ...
... side of caution and incur no risk . Down one of the smaller streams two men and a woman - the father and brother and sister of the tailor of the waste - were passing in the dim light of early morning many years ago with a boat - load of ...
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