 | 1874 - 776 Seiten
...Quy, Bottisham, and Swaffham Fens. In taking this beat, you met with great varieties of wild fowl, bitterns, plovers of every description, ruffs and...they furnished long poles, to enable them to leap the very wide ditches which intersected the Fens in every direction.' This seems almost as strange... | |
 | 1874 - 772 Seiten
...varieties of wild fowl, bitterns, plovers of every description, ruffs and reeves, and not unfreqtiently pheasants. If you did not go very near the mansions...they furnished long poles, to enable them to leap the very wide ditches which intersected the Fens in every direction.' This seems almost as strange... | |
 | Thomas Dinham Atkinson - 1897 - 696 Seiten
...plovers of every description, ruffs and reeves, and not infrequently pheasants. A great number of lads were on the look-out for sportsmen from the University,...they carried, and to whom they furnished long poles for leaping the wide ditches which crossed the Fens in every direction. This rough land over which... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 244 Seiten
...Parker's Piece, you came to Cherryhinton Fen; from thence to Teversham, Clay, Bottisham, and Swafham Fens. In taking this beat, you met with great varieties...ditches which intersected the Fens in every direction. . . . The sport which the Fens afforded, and of which I was so fond, unfortunately could be pursued... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 246 Seiten
...Bottisham, and Swafham Fens. In taking this beat, you met with great varieties of wildSHOOTING 87 fowl, bitterns, plovers of every description, ruffs and...ditches which intersected the Fens in every direction. . . . The sport which the Fens afforded, and of which I was so fond, unfortunately could be pursued... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1928 - 376 Seiten
...Quy, Bottisham, and Swaffham Fens. In taking this beat, you met with great varieties of wild fowl, bitterns, plovers of every description, ruffs and...they furnished long poles, to enable them to leap the very wide ditches which intersected the Fens in every direction.' This seems almost as strange... | |
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In taking this beat, you met with great varieties of wildfowl, bitterns, plovers of every description, ruffs and reeves, and not unfrequently pheasants. If you did not go very near the mansions of the few country gentlemen who resided in the neighbourhood,... 