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... English birds , beasts , and fishes which are generally in- cluded under the head of Game . Books on Natural History cover such a vast number of subjects that their writers necessarily find it impossible to deal with each in a really ...
... English birds , beasts , and fishes which are generally in- cluded under the head of Game . Books on Natural History cover such a vast number of subjects that their writers necessarily find it impossible to deal with each in a really ...
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... English snipe - grounds , a change of the wind to a milder quarter being nearly always the signal for the prompt disappearance of all save the small body of regular residents . SHOOTING THE SNIPE BY L. H. DE VISME SHAW CHAPTER 58 THE SNIPE.
... English snipe - grounds , a change of the wind to a milder quarter being nearly always the signal for the prompt disappearance of all save the small body of regular residents . SHOOTING THE SNIPE BY L. H. DE VISME SHAW CHAPTER 58 THE SNIPE.
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... Mayo , Kerry , Cork , and Clare ; in England , the best snipe counties are Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , Lincolnshire , and Cam- Blakey's Shooting . bridgeshire . There was a time when large English districts 118 SHOOTING THE SNIPE.
... Mayo , Kerry , Cork , and Clare ; in England , the best snipe counties are Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , Lincolnshire , and Cam- Blakey's Shooting . bridgeshire . There was a time when large English districts 118 SHOOTING THE SNIPE.
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L. H. De Visme Shaw. bridgeshire . There was a time when large English districts could show snipe shooting as good as any to be had in the sister Isle . Drainage and cultivation , however , have now forced England into a very inferior ...
L. H. De Visme Shaw. bridgeshire . There was a time when large English districts could show snipe shooting as good as any to be had in the sister Isle . Drainage and cultivation , however , have now forced England into a very inferior ...
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... English well . The conversation turned on woodcocks , and I asked him if he got many . He said sometimes in the winter , when the birds came to the coast , they were caught in traps , or shot when they stopped quiet , being tired after ...
... English well . The conversation turned on woodcocks , and I asked him if he got many . He said sometimes in the winter , when the birds came to the coast , they were caught in traps , or shot when they stopped quiet , being tired after ...
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