The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and Fishes of North America; Their Habits and Various Methods of Capture. Copious Instructions in Shooting, Fishing, Taxidermy, Woodcraft, Etc. Together with a Directory to the Principal Game Resorts of the Country; Illustrated with Maps"Forest and stream" publishing Company, 1883 - 896 oldal |
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515. oldal - The dog is able to use it in the act of lapping ; but the mouth is not sufficiently closed to retain the water. Therefore, while he hangs over the fluid, eagerly lapping for several minutes, it is very little or not at all diminished. The paralysis often attacks the loins and extremities also. The animal' staggers about and frequently falls.
513. oldal - Give a dog a bad name/ says the proverb, ' and hang him.' Good names, however; are not so rife as one might imagine ; particularly as it is usual to christen all the whelps of a litter with a name whose initial letter corresponds with that of their putative father, or their maternal parent. This rule is sometimes observed with religious strictness. A baronet...
432. oldal - He has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large ; his shoulders back ; his breast rather wide than narrow ; his chest deep ; his back broad ; his head small ; his neck thin; his tail thick and bushy ; if he carry it well, so much the better.
334. oldal - Ihere is na species sought for by anglers that surpasses the grayling in beauty. They are more elegantly formed than the trout, and their great dorsal fin is a superb mark of beauty. When the welllids were lifted, and the sun-rays admitted, lighting up the delicate olive-brown tints of the back and sides, the bluishwhite of the abdomen, and the mingling tints of rose, pale blue, and purpliah-pink on the fins, it displayed a combination of living colors that is equalled by no fish outside of the tropics.
184. oldal - ... four. Parties who desire to lease a Canadian river should address a letter to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, at Ottawa, stating how many rods they have, and the district which they prefer to fish. He will forward them a list of the leasable rivers, and a note of information, upon which they should get some Canadian to make the tender for them. The leases of fluvial parts of rivers vary from two to six hundred dollars a year for from three to eight rods, and the price for guides or gaffers...
584. oldal - When your fly first touches the water at the end of a straight line. 2. When you are drawing out your fly for a new throw. In all other cases it is necessary that, in order to hook him when he has taken the fly, you should do something with your wrist which it is not easy to describe.
672. oldal - Dunraven's The Great Divide : A Narrative of Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874. By the EARL of DUNRAVEN. With Maps and numerous striking full-page Illustrations by VALENTINE W. BROMLEY. " There has not for a long time appeared a better book of travel than Lord Dunraven's ' The Great Divide. ' . . . The book is full of clever observation. And both narrative and illustrations are thoroughly good.
515. oldal - ... considerable flow of saliva begins, but this does not long continue, and it is succeeded by insatiable thirst. He appears to be annoyed by some viscid matter in his throat,. and in the most eager and extraordinary manner he works with his paws at the corners of his mouth to remove it, and while thus employed frequently loses his balance and rolls over. A loss of power over the voluntary muscles is next observed. It begins with the lower jaw, which hangs down, and the mouth is partially open ;...
417. oldal - Out never wide ; and his back ribs are somewhat shorter than those of his English brethren. Loin good, slightly arched, and well coupled to his hips, but not very wide ; quarters slightly sloping, and flag set on rather low, but straight, fine in bone, and beautifully carried. Breeders...
26. oldal - On seeing his intended prey, he gets quietly into the water, and swims to a leeward position, from whence, by frequent short dives, he silently makes his approaches, and so arranges his distance, that at the last dive he comes to the spot where the seal is lying. If the poor animal attempts to escape by rolling into the water, he falls into the paws of the bear ; if, on the contrary, he lies still, his destroyer makes a powerful spring, kills him on the ice, and devours him at leisure.