The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1890 - 416 Seiten |
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... dogs come into his garden at night and eat his gooseberries , and gives a useful hint to farmers and others , when he says that rooks and crows destroy an immense number of chaffers , and that were it not for these birds the chaffers ...
... dogs come into his garden at night and eat his gooseberries , and gives a useful hint to farmers and others , when he says that rooks and crows destroy an immense number of chaffers , and that were it not for these birds the chaffers ...
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... dog - roses , and the banks covered with wild strawberries , primroses , and pretty ferns , would in winter be filled with mud , to say nothing of the cart - ruts . I find amongst Mr. White's papers the following pleasing lines ...
... dog - roses , and the banks covered with wild strawberries , primroses , and pretty ferns , would in winter be filled with mud , to say nothing of the cart - ruts . I find amongst Mr. White's papers the following pleasing lines ...
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... dogs were permitted to pursue , and a most gallant scene ensued . LETTER VII . TO THE SAME . THOUGH large herds of deer do much harm to the neigh- bourhood , yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of ...
... dogs were permitted to pursue , and a most gallant scene ensued . LETTER VII . TO THE SAME . THOUGH large herds of deer do much harm to the neigh- bourhood , yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of ...
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... dog in the following extraordinary manner : — Some fellows , suspecting that a calf new - fallen was depo- sited in a certain spot of thick fern , went with a lurcher to surprise it ; when the parent hind rushed out of the brake , and ...
... dog in the following extraordinary manner : — Some fellows , suspecting that a calf new - fallen was depo- sited in a certain spot of thick fern , went with a lurcher to surprise it ; when the parent hind rushed out of the brake , and ...
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... the action of the noctule in seizing the meat was similar to that of a dog . The appetite was sometimes voracious ; the quantity essen exceeding half an was worthy of observation and pleased me much . Insects 44 BATS .
... the action of the noctule in seizing the meat was similar to that of a dog . The appetite was sometimes voracious ; the quantity essen exceeding half an was worthy of observation and pleased me much . Insects 44 BATS .
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