Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... seen clustering together in sheltered places or out on the tops of the mountains . The sexes mix together to a certain extent at all seasons , with the exception of course of any particular stag which happens to have found some fat ...
... seen clustering together in sheltered places or out on the tops of the mountains . The sexes mix together to a certain extent at all seasons , with the exception of course of any particular stag which happens to have found some fat ...
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... seen sweeter but never fatter venison . ' I Fuller tells this story when discussing the morals of the monasteries . destroyed by Henry VIII . , in 1536-9 . But to return to the subject of the Martindale deer , there can be no doubt that ...
... seen sweeter but never fatter venison . ' I Fuller tells this story when discussing the morals of the monasteries . destroyed by Henry VIII . , in 1536-9 . But to return to the subject of the Martindale deer , there can be no doubt that ...
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... stags in Martindale , where the Countess of Lonsdale , in the glories of a carriage and four and outriders , would not infrequently be seen gracing the meet ' ( ' The Cumberland Foxhounds , C 2 THE RED DEER'S HOME 19.
... stags in Martindale , where the Countess of Lonsdale , in the glories of a carriage and four and outriders , would not infrequently be seen gracing the meet ' ( ' The Cumberland Foxhounds , C 2 THE RED DEER'S HOME 19.
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... seen the hinds chewing the horns of a stag lying on the ground , and that this was a common practice was shown by the marks of their teeth upon the horns of almost every stag I killed late in the season . ' Mr. Harvie Brown remarks that ...
... seen the hinds chewing the horns of a stag lying on the ground , and that this was a common practice was shown by the marks of their teeth upon the horns of almost every stag I killed late in the season . ' Mr. Harvie Brown remarks that ...
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... seen in the gloom of a winter's night , the conspirators , minded of the unholy work in which they had so recently been engaged , not unnaturally concluded that the Evil One himself had arrived to claim his own . Many readers will ...
... seen in the gloom of a winter's night , the conspirators , minded of the unholy work in which they had so recently been engaged , not unnaturally concluded that the Evil One himself had arrived to claim his own . Many readers will ...
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