Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting |
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Other editions - View all
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker No preview available - 2012 |
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker No preview available - 2016 |
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Popular passages
Page 191 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling, or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.
Page 507 - Township] of by virtue of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to amend the Representation of the People
Page 512 - ... if any credible witness shall prove upon oath before a justice of the peace a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his possession or on his premises any property whatsoever on or with respect to which any offence...
Page 502 - ... right, shall wilfully take out of the nest or destroy in the nest upon such land the eggs of any bird of game, or of any swan, wild duck, teal or widgeon, or shall knowingly have in his house, shop, possession, or...
Page 512 - ... at the discretion of the justice, either be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding...
Page 506 - ... and also to pay the sum of for costs ; and in default of immediate payment of the said sums, to be imprisoned in the [or to be imprisoned in the and there kept to hard labour...
Page 504 - Provided that nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to any person angling between the beginning of the last hour before sunrise and the expiration of the first hour after sunset...
Page 507 - Act, and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon ; and no plaintiff shall recover in such action, if tender of sufficient amends shall have been made before such action brought, or if a sufficient sum of money shall have been paid into Court after such action brought, by or on behalf of the defendant...
Page 507 - That all Actions and Prosecutions to be commenced against any Person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid and tried in the County where the Fact was committed, and shall be commenced within Six Calendar Months after the Fact committed, and not otherwise...
Page 513 - ... to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding two months...