The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and Country. Containing Full and Particular Instructions for Riding, Hunting ..., &c., with the Various Methods to be Observed in Breeding and Dieting of Horses Both for Road and Turf: Also, the Management of Dogs, Game-cocks ..., & C. and the Manner of Curing Their Various Diseases and Accidents ...G.G. and J. Robinson, 1800 - 544 pages |
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... fubject to but few diftempers , lives on little , and is very ferviceable . When loofe , it will find its own living , fummer and winter , unless the fnow be very deep on the ground , feeding on thif- tles , carix , and other rough and ...
... fubject to but few diftempers , lives on little , and is very ferviceable . When loofe , it will find its own living , fummer and winter , unless the fnow be very deep on the ground , feeding on thif- tles , carix , and other rough and ...
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... fubject , and is an indication of great inflam- mation in the bowels . which is in the night , with a low -. after a bear as we do after a buck or roe , and you may lodge and hunt them as you do a buck . For the more fpeedy execution ...
... fubject , and is an indication of great inflam- mation in the bowels . which is in the night , with a low -. after a bear as we do after a buck or roe , and you may lodge and hunt them as you do a buck . For the more fpeedy execution ...
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... fubject , and once more repeat my advice of teaching the colt a good canter . If it fhould be held proper to learn him to leap the bar , care must be taken that he be not fuffered to do it with a heavy weight , which may , in an inftant ...
... fubject , and once more repeat my advice of teaching the colt a good canter . If it fhould be held proper to learn him to leap the bar , care must be taken that he be not fuffered to do it with a heavy weight , which may , in an inftant ...
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... fubject have borrowed , and in ge- neral without having the honefty to acknowledge it . Broken - wind is no doubt an appropriate malady of the domeftic ftate , fince in the natural it is unknown . I know not whether affes be fubject to ...
... fubject have borrowed , and in ge- neral without having the honefty to acknowledge it . Broken - wind is no doubt an appropriate malady of the domeftic ftate , fince in the natural it is unknown . I know not whether affes be fubject to ...
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... fubject to be fearful . Thefe birds being fo much efteemed for their pleafing fong , are fometimes fold at a high price , more or lefs , according to the goodnefs and excellency of their notes , there being a great difference in them ...
... fubject to be fearful . Thefe birds being fo much efteemed for their pleafing fong , are fometimes fold at a high price , more or lefs , according to the goodnefs and excellency of their notes , there being a great difference in them ...
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Page 66 - For two large ponds, of three or four acres apiece, it is advisable to have four stews, each two rods wide and three long. The stews are usually in gardens, or near the house, to be more handy and better looked to. The method of making them, is to carry the bottom in a continual decline from one end, with a mouth to favor the drawing them with a net.