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... scent ? Have the hounds made their own cast ? —Now make yours . You see that sheep - dog has coursed the fox : get forward with your hounds , and make a wide cast . " BECKFORD . OF FOR THE SEASON 1836-7 . Erol James Shirley . NEW ...
... scent ? Have the hounds made their own cast ? —Now make yours . You see that sheep - dog has coursed the fox : get forward with your hounds , and make a wide cast . " BECKFORD . OF FOR THE SEASON 1836-7 . Erol James Shirley . NEW ...
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... scent they came to a check at Dean - bottoms , where they received in- telligence of the fox's being seen going to Monk's - wood , but not hitting him off they proceeded to Asham , where they speedily got on the line , and hunting up to ...
... scent they came to a check at Dean - bottoms , where they received in- telligence of the fox's being seen going to Monk's - wood , but not hitting him off they proceeded to Asham , where they speedily got on the line , and hunting up to ...
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... scent failing , he was given up , after having afforded an excellent run . 15th - Met at that favourite place Stratton Audley ; drew Reeves's - gorse ; and after some delay , and considerable doubts expressed as to a find , from the ...
... scent failing , he was given up , after having afforded an excellent run . 15th - Met at that favourite place Stratton Audley ; drew Reeves's - gorse ; and after some delay , and considerable doubts expressed as to a find , from the ...
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... scent ; and you never feel satisfied that the ground has been fairly covered ; for instead of trying for it they are looking at each other , and if a hound puts his nose down , they dash at him , and should it be riot , push him on ...
... scent ; and you never feel satisfied that the ground has been fairly covered ; for instead of trying for it they are looking at each other , and if a hound puts his nose down , they dash at him , and should it be riot , push him on ...
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... scent , she stopped suddenly short . About a week ago , a fox rolled out of a stubble shock before those I have now , and although there are several young fox - hounds among them , yet when he broke view they did not care to hunt it ...
... scent , she stopped suddenly short . About a week ago , a fox rolled out of a stubble shock before those I have now , and although there are several young fox - hounds among them , yet when he broke view they did not care to hunt it ...
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Page 414 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 414 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
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Page 63 - ... is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors, and his bulk is still further increased by a multiplicity of coats, in which he is buried like a cauliflower, the upper one reaching to his heels. He wears a broad-brimmed lowcrowned hat, a huge roll of coloured handkerchief about his neck, knowingly knotted and tucked in at the bosom ; and has in summer time a large bouquet of flowers in his button-hole ; the present, most probably, of some enamoured country lass.
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Page 63 - He has commonly a broad full face, curiously mottled with red, as if the blood had been forced by hard feeding into every vessel of the skin ; he is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors, and his bulk is still further increased by a multiplicity of coats in which he is buried like a cauliflower, the upper one reaching to his heels.
Page 299 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Page 278 - ... day ; he receives a chicken for his hawk, a peck of oats for his horse, and a loaf of bread for his greyhound. They all dine ; after which the master blows three blasts with his horn, and...
Page 353 - Warwickshire, are also included in their beat. Our readers are doubtless aware that such portion of a county as is hunted by any one pack of hounds is technically called their country ; and of all the countries in the world, the Quorn certainly bears the bell.
Page 140 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.