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Occasional spells of fine weather , yes , but not six or seven weeks of light winds and blue skies . ... Morning after morning the wind was so light that the most earnest scanning of the sky failed to establish the quarter of its ...
Occasional spells of fine weather , yes , but not six or seven weeks of light winds and blue skies . ... Morning after morning the wind was so light that the most earnest scanning of the sky failed to establish the quarter of its ...
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We agreed that if the wind was not east it ought to be , and climbed leisurely over the hill towards our western march . Presently we spied a fairly good stag , with a few hinds , below a steep face , about a quarter - mile from the ...
We agreed that if the wind was not east it ought to be , and climbed leisurely over the hill towards our western march . Presently we spied a fairly good stag , with a few hinds , below a steep face , about a quarter - mile from the ...
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But this year , owing to the extraordinary vagaries of the usually nonexistent wind , a clash could easily occur ; and one day I interfered , quite unwittingly , with a neighbour's sport . Neither D. nor I knew anything about it at the ...
But this year , owing to the extraordinary vagaries of the usually nonexistent wind , a clash could easily occur ; and one day I interfered , quite unwittingly , with a neighbour's sport . Neither D. nor I knew anything about it at the ...
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