Hone's Popular Works and Everlasting Calendar, Volume 4Wm. Tegg and Company, 1826 - Amusements |
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Page 461
... bird . Branchers , which are birds hatched in spring , are taken in June and July , with a net and a hawk , after the manner of sky - larks . They harbour about gravel pits , upon heath and common land , and in pasture fields . For fear ...
... bird . Branchers , which are birds hatched in spring , are taken in June and July , with a net and a hawk , after the manner of sky - larks . They harbour about gravel pits , upon heath and common land , and in pasture fields . For fear ...
Page 491
... bird , " contains this account of a bird - battle . " Presently , when the spring comes , they ( the storks ) proceed all together , like an army , and fly in divers figures , as wild geese and ducks ; and all sorts of birds fly out of ...
... bird , " contains this account of a bird - battle . " Presently , when the spring comes , they ( the storks ) proceed all together , like an army , and fly in divers figures , as wild geese and ducks ; and all sorts of birds fly out of ...
Page 1251
... birds in a ten acre field within two minutes , if the birds were in it ; and this was one remark- able point in him , -that , on entering a field , he seemed to know by instinct where the birds would lie ; for he would take a momentary ...
... birds in a ten acre field within two minutes , if the birds were in it ; and this was one remark- able point in him , -that , on entering a field , he seemed to know by instinct where the birds would lie ; for he would take a momentary ...
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