Sporting Magazine, Band 45Rogerson & Tuxford, 1865 |
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... fowler's curious and interesting arts are for- gotten or supplanted by the common use of the gun , though a shot bird is never half so valuable as a snared or a netted one . The capture of dotterels used to afford considerable practice ...
... fowler's curious and interesting arts are for- gotten or supplanted by the common use of the gun , though a shot bird is never half so valuable as a snared or a netted one . The capture of dotterels used to afford considerable practice ...
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... fowler was enabled to turn it to good account in the contrivances he used for capturing it . It has been quaintly remarked that " the dotterel catcheth itself by its over- active imitation . " One of the contrivances of the old fowler ...
... fowler was enabled to turn it to good account in the contrivances he used for capturing it . It has been quaintly remarked that " the dotterel catcheth itself by its over- active imitation . " One of the contrivances of the old fowler ...
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... fowler's trade of ruff - catching was the most profitable of any . Indeed the value set upon these birds in former times was truly astonishing . At the present day the prices are still enormous : they are never less than 30s . per dozen ...
... fowler's trade of ruff - catching was the most profitable of any . Indeed the value set upon these birds in former times was truly astonishing . At the present day the prices are still enormous : they are never less than 30s . per dozen ...
Inhalt
JOHN OSBORNE THE CELEBRATED JOCKEY BY CASTOR | 18 |
NOTES FOR JANUARY BY WANDERER | 25 |
CHRISTMAS AT THE OLD SPORTSMANS HALL | 29 |
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