The Sportsman's Dictionary; Or, The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and Country: Containing Full and Particular Instructions for Riding, Hunting, Fowling ... Hawking, &c. With the Various Methods to be Observed in Breeding and Dieting of Horses Both for the Road and Turf; Also, the Management of Dogs, Gamecocks, Dunghill-fowls, Turkies, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, Singing-birds, &c. And the Manner of Curing Their Various Diseases and AccidentsG.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1785 - 548 pages |
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... moft certain rules that a horfe is coming five years old , notwithstanding his colt's teeth may not be all gone . Jockies and breeders , in order to make their colts feem five years old when they are but four , pull out their laft ...
... moft certain rules that a horfe is coming five years old , notwithstanding his colt's teeth may not be all gone . Jockies and breeders , in order to make their colts feem five years old when they are but four , pull out their laft ...
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... moft benefit of the beams . of the fun , after he is rifen , to relieve them from the coldness of the preceding night . And befides the benefit of the fun , the air will be more mild and temperate , as that it will rather invigorate ...
... moft benefit of the beams . of the fun , after he is rifen , to relieve them from the coldness of the preceding night . And befides the benefit of the fun , the air will be more mild and temperate , as that it will rather invigorate ...
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... moft , though you may fish a little stronger above in the upper part of your line but if you can attain to angle with one hair , you fhall have more rifes and catch more fish . You must be fure not to cumber yourself with too long a ...
... moft , though you may fish a little stronger above in the upper part of your line but if you can attain to angle with one hair , you fhall have more rifes and catch more fish . You must be fure not to cumber yourself with too long a ...
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... moft cafes , to be preferred to worfted , crewels , and , indeed , to every other kind of wool ; and obferve that the hog - wool is beft for large , and the feal's fur for fmall flies . Get alfo furs of the following animals , viz . the ...
... moft cafes , to be preferred to worfted , crewels , and , indeed , to every other kind of wool ; and obferve that the hog - wool is beft for large , and the feal's fur for fmall flies . Get alfo furs of the following animals , viz . the ...
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... moft of which may be very well contained in a wicker panier of about twelve inches wide , and eight high , and put into a hawking - bag , of the form as in Fig . 10. The following is a lift of the most material ingredients : A rod with ...
... moft of which may be very well contained in a wicker panier of about twelve inches wide , and eight high , and put into a hawking - bag , of the form as in Fig . 10. The following is a lift of the most material ingredients : A rod with ...
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