The Shooter's Companion: Or, A Description of Pointers and Setters ... Of the Breeding of Pointers ... Of Training Dogs for the Gun ; Of Scent ... The Fowling Piece Fully Considered ... Of Percussion Powder ... Of Gunpowder ... Shooting Illustrated ; and the Art of Shooting Flying ... The Game Laws ... Of Wild Fowl and Fen Shooting ... |
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Page 257 - ... from this root has sprung a bastard slip, known by the name of the game law, now arrived to and wantoning in its highest vigour : both founded upon the same unreasonable notions of permanent property in wild creatures ; and both productive of the same tyranny to the commons : but with this difference — that the forest laws established only one mighty hunter throughout the land ; the game laws have raised a little Nimrod in every manor.
Page 257 - ... a year is forbidden to kill a partridge upon his own estate, yet nobody else (not even the lord of the manor, unless he hath a grant of free-warren) can do it without committing a trespass, and subjecting himself to an action.
Page 142 - Secure the favourite horse. Soon as the morn Reveals his wrongs, with ghastly visage wan The plunder'd owner stands, and from his lips A thousand thronging curses burst their way. He calls his stout allies, and in a line His faithful hounds he leads ; then, with a voice That utters loud his rage, attentive cheers. Soon...
Page 34 - A hen partridge came out of a ditch, and ran along shivering with her wings and crying out as if wounded and unable to get from us. While the dam acted this distress, the boy who attended me saw her brood, that was small and unable to fly, run for shelter into an old fox-earth under the bank.
Page 396 - PRACTICALOBSERVATIONS on the BRITISH GRASSES, especially such as are best adapted to the laying down or improving of Meadows and Pastures ; likewise an enumeration of the British Grasses. By WILLIAM CURTIS, Author of the Flora Londinensis, Botanical Magazine, Lectures on Botany, &c.
Page 174 - It will no doubt strike the reader with wonder to find a prohibition of firearms in records of such unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably from hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of that kind in India as a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain.
Page 143 - Inquisitive, nor leaves one turf untried, Till, conscious of the recent stains, his heart Beats quick ; his snuffling nose, his active tail, Attest his joy ; then, with deep opening mouth That makes the welkin tremble, he proclaims Th' audacious felon ; foot by foot he marks His winding way, while all the listening crowd Applaud his reasonings.
Page 134 - The vigorous hounds pursue, with every breath Inhale the grateful steam, quick pleasures sting Their tingling nerves, while they their thanks repay, And in triumphant melody confess The titillating joy. Thus on the air Depend the hunter's hopes.
Page 291 - Act to be between the hours of eight o'clock at night and seven in the morning, from the 1st of October to the 1st of...
Page 176 - The Earls of Derby and Salisbury are mentioned by Mariana as having assisted at the siege of Algeziras ; and as they returned to England in the latter end of the year 1343, it is not an improbable conjecture, that, having been witnesses of the...