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Side 33
If you fish with a small hook of sober colour in such troubled water , it might not
catch their sight . Streams of this kind are in best order when tumbling over stock
and stone something the colour of London porter . The reason that a large fly of ...
If you fish with a small hook of sober colour in such troubled water , it might not
catch their sight . Streams of this kind are in best order when tumbling over stock
and stone something the colour of London porter . The reason that a large fly of ...
Side 64
They were five in number ; two rather larger than the others , one of them a
yellowish green , the other a dark brown ; indeed they were all of different hues ,
and the shade of their colour was my first distinguishing mark . This leads me to ...
They were five in number ; two rather larger than the others , one of them a
yellowish green , the other a dark brown ; indeed they were all of different hues ,
and the shade of their colour was my first distinguishing mark . This leads me to ...
Side 168
I remember three being taken alive , by a water dog on the Thames , of a rich
cream colour . They all haunted the same bend of the river , and were constantly
noticed gamboling among the reeds before they were captured . I never saw
more ...
I remember three being taken alive , by a water dog on the Thames , of a rich
cream colour . They all haunted the same bend of the river , and were constantly
noticed gamboling among the reeds before they were captured . I never saw
more ...
Side 171
All these birds are so light in the colour as more nearly to resemble partridges .
But let us take the mountain from top to bottom , and admire the wondrous care of
the Divine appointments . The ptarmigan , the colour of its snowy summit in the ...
All these birds are so light in the colour as more nearly to resemble partridges .
But let us take the mountain from top to bottom , and admire the wondrous care of
the Divine appointments . The ptarmigan , the colour of its snowy summit in the ...
Side 183
A cream - coloured hart is now roaming Lord Breadalbane's celebrated forest ,
the Black Mount . But perhaps the most ... Its eyes are red , and , what is very
remarkable , it does not vary its colour according to the season . This is the more
...
A cream - coloured hart is now roaming Lord Breadalbane's celebrated forest ,
the Black Mount . But perhaps the most ... Its eyes are red , and , what is very
remarkable , it does not vary its colour according to the season . This is the more
...
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Side 1 - Fortunately for mankind, as some counterbalance to that wretched love of novelty which originates in selfishness, shallowness, and conceit, and which especially characterizes all vulgar minds, there is set in the deeper places of the heart such affection for the signs of age that the eye is delighted even by injuries which are the work of time...
Side i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,