Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1912 - Počet stran: 320 |
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Strana 294 - THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy...
Strana 62 - Here lies a marksman, who with art and skill, When young and strong, fat bucks and does did kill. Now conquered by grim Death (go, reader, tell it !) He's now took leave of powder, gun, and pellet. A fatal dart, which in the dark did fly, Has laid him down, among the dead to lie. If any want to know the poor slave's name. Tis old TOM BOOTH...
Strana 50 - ¡n the bottom, and a stratum of the stones above it ; and thus they did alternately till the pit was full. The whole was covered over with heath to confine the steam. Whether this is probable I cannot say ; but some pits are shewn, which the vulgar say, were used in that manner.
Strana 54 - ... and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain ; which after are disposed of, some one way and some another, twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough left for us to make merry withal at our rendezvous.
Strana 54 - Tinckhell, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then all the valley on each side being waylaid with a hundred couple of strong Irish greyhounds, they are let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks, and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain...
Strana 234 - Duke [Cumberland] ; and as the latter has taken a turn of gaming, Sandwich, to make his court — and fortune— carries a box and dice in his pocket ; and so they throw a main, whenever the hounds are at fault, ' upon every green hill and under every green tree.
Strana 53 - ... compass, they do bring, or chase in the deer, in many herds, (two, three, or four hundred in a herd,) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when day is come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies...
Strana 53 - The manner of the hunting is this : — Five or six hundred men doe rise early in the morning, and they doe disperse themselves divers wayes, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Strana 53 - ... and rivers; and then, they being come to the place, do lie down on the ground, till those foresaid scouts, which are called the...