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... PRACTICAL HINTS ON HORSE DEALING 119 132 THE BLIND FISHERMAN 145 CROSSING SWEEPERS THE FIRST OF OCTOBER THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY CUB HUNTING 150 154 159 166 FOX HUNTERS AND GAME PRESERVERS .. 172 A MONTH IN MAYO . CHAPTER I. THE LODGE ...
... PRACTICAL HINTS ON HORSE DEALING 119 132 THE BLIND FISHERMAN 145 CROSSING SWEEPERS THE FIRST OF OCTOBER THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY CUB HUNTING 150 154 159 166 FOX HUNTERS AND GAME PRESERVERS .. 172 A MONTH IN MAYO . CHAPTER I. THE LODGE ...
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... practical blunders are made , which occasionally counterbalance the benefit of pre- servation ; for instance , because the fish crowded too thickly on certain spawning beds , a late keeper determined to make the beds of the streams all ...
... practical blunders are made , which occasionally counterbalance the benefit of pre- servation ; for instance , because the fish crowded too thickly on certain spawning beds , a late keeper determined to make the beds of the streams all ...
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... PRACTICAL HINTS ON HORSE DEALING . EXCEPTING to sell , there are few more difficult things than to buy a horse . A few hints derived from the practical experience of some forty years , during which I have always been owner of from two ...
... PRACTICAL HINTS ON HORSE DEALING . EXCEPTING to sell , there are few more difficult things than to buy a horse . A few hints derived from the practical experience of some forty years , during which I have always been owner of from two ...
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... practical observations in all matters re- lating to the capture of fish of all kinds , of which he treats , are very good , and as the writing is agreeable , and the jokes racy , both profit and pleasure are derivable from it . The book ...
... practical observations in all matters re- lating to the capture of fish of all kinds , of which he treats , are very good , and as the writing is agreeable , and the jokes racy , both profit and pleasure are derivable from it . The book ...
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... practical master of good , simple , animated style , in whose compositions we detect no bad English , scarcely one slip- shod sentence or awkward expression . We repeat , we feel a personal obligation to Mr. Rooper for the pleasure his ...
... practical master of good , simple , animated style , in whose compositions we detect no bad English , scarcely one slip- shod sentence or awkward expression . We repeat , we feel a personal obligation to Mr. Rooper for the pleasure his ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!