Field sports of the north Europe, כרך 11831 |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 383 - ... prey. Such rage inflames the wolf's wild heart and eyes (Robb'd, as he thinks, unjustly of his prize) Whom unawares the shepherd spies, and draws The bleating lamb from out his ravenous jaws : The shepherd fain himself would he assail, But fear above his hunger does prevail, He knows his foe too strong, and must be gone : He grins, as he looks back, and howls, as he goes on.
עמוד 389 - By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave; Burning for blood; bony, and gaunt, and grim. Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
עמוד 309 - ... the stomach of this bird has something of the gizzard character, though not so much as that of the land-rail, which I have found half filled with seeds of grasses, and even containing corn, mixed with may-bugs, earthworms, grasshoppers, and caterpillars. The woodcock, I believe, breeds habitually only in high northern latitudes ; yet there are woods in England, particularly one in Sussex, near the borders of Hampshire, in which one or two couple of these birds, it is said, may always be found...
עמוד 295 - ... for the purpose. After dark, two men start in pursuit of the birds : one of them is provided with a gun ; the other, with a long pole, to either end of which a flambeau is attached. The man with the flambeau now goes in advance, the other remaining at the prostrate tree, to keep it, and the two lights in an exact line with each other : by this curious contrivance they cannot well go astray in the forest. Thus they proceed...
עמוד 296 - During his play, the neck of the Capercali is stretched out, his tail is raised and spread like a fan, his wings droop, his feathers are ruffled up, and, in short, he much resembles in appearance an angry Turkeycock. He begins his play with a call something resembling...
עמוד 114 - ... turn back. It seemed best to hasten forward in hopes of speedily reaching the outskirts of the wood, but in this we were disappointed. We ran as fast as we could, in order to avoid being crushed by the falling trees, some of which threatened us every minute. Sometimes the fall of a...
עמוד 290 - In the forest, the capercailzie does not always present an easy mark ; for, dipping down from the pines nearly to the ground, as is frequently the case, they are often almost out of distance before one can properly take aim.
עמוד 285 - Scotch fir, large branches of which were usually introduced into their cages once or more in the course of the week. They were also supplied with abundance of native berries, when procurable. They were amply provided at all times with water and sand : the latter of which was of a rather coarse quality, and both were changed pretty frequently.
עמוד 297 - Indeed, during the calmest and most favourable weather, it is not audible at more than two or three hundred paces. On hearing the call of the cock, the hens, whose cry in some degree resembles the croak of the raven, or rather perhaps the sounds, Gock!
עמוד 389 - The Wolf has great strength, especially in the muscles of his neck and jaws : he can carry a Sheep in his mouth, and easily run off* with it in that manner. His bite is cruel and deadly, and...