Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... miles , without observing any more stirring sign of life than the whirr of a startled grouse or the hasty scamper of a blue hare . Only here and there , but always at pretty long intervals , does a green brae crop up , as though to ...
... miles , without observing any more stirring sign of life than the whirr of a startled grouse or the hasty scamper of a blue hare . Only here and there , but always at pretty long intervals , does a green brae crop up , as though to ...
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... miles from the Lodge . When I arrived in August the deer were coming nightly to chew the bones , and all the latter had disappeared before I left in November of the same year . I have often , when lying watching a herd , seen the hinds ...
... miles from the Lodge . When I arrived in August the deer were coming nightly to chew the bones , and all the latter had disappeared before I left in November of the same year . I have often , when lying watching a herd , seen the hinds ...
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... miles from their accustomed haunts in quest of stray hinds , in pursuit of which they sometimes voluntarily swam across arms of the sea , and landed on lonely islets . Among the mainland forests this trait must tend to secure a general ...
... miles from their accustomed haunts in quest of stray hinds , in pursuit of which they sometimes voluntarily swam across arms of the sea , and landed on lonely islets . Among the mainland forests this trait must tend to secure a general ...
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... miles compasse , they doe bring or chase in the deer in many heards ( two , three , or four hundred in a heard ) to such or such a place as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then when day is come , the lords and gentlemen of their ...
... miles compasse , they doe bring or chase in the deer in many heards ( two , three , or four hundred in a heard ) to such or such a place as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then when day is come , the lords and gentlemen of their ...
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... miles , and more than enough left for us to make merry withall at our rendevouze . Being come to our lodgings , there was such a baking , boyling , rosting and stewing , as if Cook Ruffian had been there to have scalded the Devil in his ...
... miles , and more than enough left for us to make merry withall at our rendevouze . Being come to our lodgings , there was such a baking , boyling , rosting and stewing , as if Cook Ruffian had been there to have scalded the Devil in his ...
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