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For the first time I felt a slight misgiving , lest the shot might be crank and difficult , when the bird flew out of such a rugged mass . What if I should miss ! However , I banished these craven thoughts , and marched on merrily as ...
For the first time I felt a slight misgiving , lest the shot might be crank and difficult , when the bird flew out of such a rugged mass . What if I should miss ! However , I banished these craven thoughts , and marched on merrily as ...
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Peter , however , was talkative as ever , evidently in high glee that there was every chance of a shot . We now struck off to the left , as if walking away from the eyrie . Having taken a long circuit , we edged in , till we got a slope ...
Peter , however , was talkative as ever , evidently in high glee that there was every chance of a shot . We now struck off to the left , as if walking away from the eyrie . Having taken a long circuit , we edged in , till we got a slope ...
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The shot was not difficult . I may say , that my aim was cool and determined . She reeled round and round , and fell headlong into the yawning abyss , quite dead . I now took a long breath , and but for Peter's delighted face , could ...
The shot was not difficult . I may say , that my aim was cool and determined . She reeled round and round , and fell headlong into the yawning abyss , quite dead . I now took a long breath , and but for Peter's delighted face , could ...
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But as I had no specimen in my collection , I could not resist the temptation of stringing both at a shot . One lay , but the other being only wing - broken , ran into the water with so light and graceful a step , it seemed as if ...
But as I had no specimen in my collection , I could not resist the temptation of stringing both at a shot . One lay , but the other being only wing - broken , ran into the water with so light and graceful a step , it seemed as if ...
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The gardener shot several , which he brought to me . The ring of the males was very dusky , and in some there were brown feathers interspersed . The females had no white ring at all . They were shy birds , much more so than the thrushes ...
The gardener shot several , which he brought to me . The ring of the males was very dusky , and in some there were brown feathers interspersed . The females had no white ring at all . They were shy birds , much more so than the thrushes ...
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Page 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,
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| Title | Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell" |
| Author | John Colquhoun |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 185 pages |
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