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 Glossary, and a Directory to the Principal Game Resorts of the Country |
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Page 487 - 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...
Page 490 - ... whether rabies cau be excited by any other cause than inoculation of the specific virus ; in other words, whether it has any other source than contagion. Many persons believe that the disease may, and does often, arise de novo ; and causes have been assigned which certainly are not true causes. Thus it has been ascribed to extreme heat of the weather. It is thought by many to be especially likely to occur during the dog-days ; and to be in itself a sort of dog-lunacy, having the same relationship...
Page 408 - 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.
Page 490 - August, which is the hottest month in the year, are the very months which furnish the fewest examples of the disease. The disorder has often been ascribed to want of water in hot weather, and sometimes to want of food. But MM Dupuytren, Breschet, and Magendie have caused both dogs and cats to perish with hunger and thirst without producing the smallest approach to a state of rabies. At the veterinary school at Alfort, three dogs were subjected to some very cruel, but decisive experiments. It was...
Page 585 - I say, put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills ; and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming wire of your hook ; or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire ; and, in so doing, use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possible that he may live the longer.
Page 312 - 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.
Page 443 - This is an inftrument of a very fimple conflru&ion, being no other than a piece of oak or deal inch board, one foot in length, and an inch and a half in breadth, tapering a little to one end ; at the broader end are two holes, running longitudinally, through which the collar of the dog is put ; and the whole is buckled round his neck ; the piece of wood being projected beyond his nofe, is then fattened with a piece of leather thong to his under jaw.
Page 586 - ... feathery, the weather will be fine; if their edges are hard, sharp and definite, it will be foul. Generally speaking, any deep, unusual hues betoken wind or rain ; while the more quiet and delicate tints bespeak fair weather. These are simple maxims ; and yet the British Board of Trade has thought fit to publish them for the use of seafaring men. In Kentucky and elsewhere much reliance is placed upon the ** goose bone...
Page 646 - 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.
Page 558 - 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.