 | John Colquhoun - 1840 - 172 pagina’s
...the bird left fluttered into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other ; the first now fluttered...over the other, and then returned for the dead bird. The only other essential to the sportsman is a glass ; one of the small pocket telescopes will answer... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pagina’s
...me, the bird left fluttered into the water: he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other; the first now fluttered...over the other, and then returned for the dead bird." Thesport — wild-fowl shooting — in which л г arum animal like this is required, is luckily not... | |
 | John Colquhoun - 1840 - 172 pagina’s
...the bird left fluttered into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other ; the first now fluttered...over the other, and then returned for the dead bird. The only other essential to the sportsman is a glass ; one of the small pocket telescopes will answer... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pagina’s
...he immediately returned , laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other ; the first one fluttered away, but he instantly secured it, and,...although on any other occasion he never ruffles a leather, deliberately killed one, brought over the other, and then returned for the dead bird.' . We... | |
 | Romani - 1845 - 796 pagina’s
...into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered tlie other; the first now fluttered away, but he instantly...over the other, and then returned for the dead bird. THE CEDAR OF LEBANON. AM going to give the history of what was perhaps the first cedar of Lebanon brought... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1849 - 390 pagina’s
...the bird left fluttered into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other; the first now fluttered...it, and standing over them both, seemed to cogitate fora moment ; then, although on any other occasion he never ruffles a feather, he deliberately killed... | |
 | John Colquhoun - 1851 - 460 pagina’s
...especially as the white foam of the bursting waves was so exactly like the object of our search as away, but he instantly secured it, and, standing over...over the other, and then returned for the dead bird. The only other essential to the sportsman is a glass. A pocket telescope that will command two or three... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1848 - 396 pagina’s
...the bird left fluttered into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other ; the first now fluttered...on any other occasion he never ruffles a feather, he deliberately killed one, brought over the other, and then returned for the dead bird." After proceeding... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1860 - 432 pagina’s
...he immediatelv returned again, laid down the first on the shore, and recovered the other; the firet now fluttered away, but he instantly secured it, and standing over them both, seemed to cogitate fora moment ; then, although on any other occasion he never ruffles a feather, he deliberately killed... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 pagina’s
...the bird left fluttered into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first on the shore and recovered the other. The first now fluttered...over the other, and then returned for the dead bird. The following, communicated to me by Mr. Blood, is a closely analogous, and therefore confirmatory... | |
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... to bring them both, but one always struggled out of his mouth ; he then laid down one, intending to bring the other, but whenever he attempted to cross to me, the bird left fluttered into the water ; he immediately returned again, laid down the first... 
