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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... must be fmooth , big , and full ; and correcting him first on one fide , then on another , with the calves of your ... must remem- ber by no means to fifh in light and dazzling apparel , but his cloathing must be of a dark fky colour and ...
... must be fmooth , big , and full ; and correcting him first on one fide , then on another , with the calves of your ... must remem- ber by no means to fifh in light and dazzling apparel , but his cloathing must be of a dark fky colour and ...
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... must be kept neither too dry nor too moift , left the one make it brittle , and the other rotten ; and if it be fultry dry weather , wet your rod a little before you angle , and having ftruck a good fish , keep your rod bent , and that ...
... must be kept neither too dry nor too moift , left the one make it brittle , and the other rotten ; and if it be fultry dry weather , wet your rod a little before you angle , and having ftruck a good fish , keep your rod bent , and that ...
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... must arm your hook with the line in the infide of it , then take your fcif- fars , and cut fo much of a brown mallard's feather as in your own reafon will make the wings of it , you having withal regard to the bigness or littleness of ...
... must arm your hook with the line in the infide of it , then take your fcif- fars , and cut fo much of a brown mallard's feather as in your own reafon will make the wings of it , you having withal regard to the bigness or littleness of ...
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... must be held on the firft till they have made one or two mewts , then take four drams of the feed of rue , two drams of hepatic aloes , and one fcru- ple of faffron ; reduce all to fine powder , and mix them with honey of roles , and ...
... must be held on the firft till they have made one or two mewts , then take four drams of the feed of rue , two drams of hepatic aloes , and one fcru- ple of faffron ; reduce all to fine powder , and mix them with honey of roles , and ...
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... must have his body made of black wool , with a yellow lift on each fide , and the wings of a red cock's mail . The moorish fly has his body made of dufkish wool , and the wings of the blackish mail of a drake . The tawny fly must be ...
... must have his body made of black wool , with a yellow lift on each fide , and the wings of a red cock's mail . The moorish fly has his body made of dufkish wool , and the wings of the blackish mail of a drake . The tawny fly must be ...
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