 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...knowledge proved very troublesome to me, for I could not sufficiently restrain them. 1 therefore left tho old experienced dogs at home, and took only the wholly...upon the unfrozen ground during the preceding night ; bat I could not discover (as I think I should have done had this been the case) any traces of their... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...knowledge proved very troublesome to me, for I could not sufficiently restrain them. I therefore left thn old experienced dogs at home, and took only the wholly...parents would have done. When I first observed this, 1 suspected that woodcocks might have been upon the unfrozen ground during the preceding night ; but... | |
 | 1854 - 400 pages
...and untaught animals ; and I had the satisfaction, in more than one instance, to see some of these find as many woodcocks, and give tongue as correctly,...not discover — as I think I should have done had tins been the case — any traces of their having been there ; and as I could not do so, I was led... | |
 | Great Britain - 1873 - 966 pages
...as the best of my older dogs." The following seems the result of a higher reasoning process : — " Woodcocks are driven in frosty weather, as is well...might have been upon the unfrozen ground during the night ; but I could not discover (as I think I should have done had this been this case) any traces... | |
 | American periodicals - 1873 - 882 pages
...themselves as closely to the unfrozen grounds as their parents would have done. When I first ob459 served this, I suspected that woodcocks might have been upon the unfrozen ground during the night; but I could not discover (аз I thiuk I should have done had this been the case) any traces... | |
 | 1842 - 738 pages
...known, to seek their food in springs and rills of unfrozen water, and I found that my old dogs knew as well as I did the degree of frost which would drive...during the preceding night; but I could not discover (which I think I should have done had this been the case) any traces of their having been there; and... | |
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Woodcocks are driven in frosty weather, as is well known, to seek their food in springs and rills of unfrozen water, and I found that my old dogs knew about as well as I did the degree of frost which would drive the woodcocks to such places ; and this... 