Buzzacott's Masterpiece; Or, The Complete Hunters', Trappers' and Compers' Library of Valuable InformationMcMains & Meyer, 1913 - 544 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 146 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather : for the sky is red.
Page 255 - When a dog approaches a strange dog or man in a savage or hostile frame of mind he walks upright and very stiffly; his head is slightly raised, or not much lowered ; the tail is held erect and quite rigid ; the hairs bristle, especially along the neck and back ; the pricked ears are directed forwards, and the eyes have a fixed stare : (see figs.
Page 440 - On such occasions it is common for those different apartments, as some are pleased to call them, to have no communication with each other but by water ; so that, in fact, they may be called double or treble houses', rather than different apartments of the same house.
Page 184 - ... teaspoonful of common salt, and as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a teacup of water, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It is scarcely down before it begins to come up, bringing with it the remaining contents of...
Page 141 - When the wind sets in from points between south and southeast and the barometer falls steadily, a storm is approaching from the west or northwest, and its center will pass near or north of the observer within 12 to 24 hours, with wind shifting to northwest by way of southwest and west. When the wind sets in from points between east and...
Page 255 - Let us now suppose that the dog suddenly discovers that the man he is approaching, is not a stranger, but his master; and let it be observed how completely and instantaneously his whole bearing is reversed. Instead of walking upright, the body sinks downwards or even crouches, and is thrown into flexuous movements; his tail, instead of being 44o held stiff and upright, is lowered and wagged from side to side...
Page 253 - There are other actions which are commonly performed under certain circumstances, independently of habit, and which seem to be due to imitation or some sort of sympathy. Thus persons cutting anything with a pair of scissors may be seen to move their jaws simultaneously with the blades of the scissors. Children learning to write often twist about their tongues as their fingers move, in a ridiculous fashion.
Page 146 - And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Page 441 - ... winter, they have not any barks to feed on in that season, except that of such sticks as they cut down in summer, and throw into the water opposite the doors of their houses ; and as they generally eat a great deal, the roots above-mentioned constitute a principal part of their food during the winter.
Page 442 - ... in the following manner: every man being furnished with an ice-chisel, lashes it to the end of a small staff about four or five feet long; he then walks along the edge of the banks, and keeps knocking his chisel against the ice. Those who are acquainted with that kind of work well know by the sound of the ice when they are opposite to any of the beavers