Field Sports of the North of Europe: Comprised in a Personal Narrative of a Residence in Sweden and Norway, in the Years 1827-28, Volum 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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Field Sports of the North of Europe: Comprised in a Personal ..., Volum 1 Llewelyn Lloyd Visualització completa - 1830 |
Field Sports of the North of Europe: Comprised in a Personal ..., Volum 1 Llewelyn Lloyd Visualització completa - 1831 |
Field Sports of the North of Europe: Comprised in a Personal ..., Volum 1 L ..... Lloyd Visualització completa - 1830 |
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Pàgina 345 - By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Appenine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands ; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north-wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
Pàgina 340 - ... prey. Such rage inflames the wolf's wild heart and eyes (Robb'd, as he thinks, unjustly of his prize) Whom unawares the shepherd spies, and draws The bleating lamb from out his ravenous jaws : The shepherd fain himself would he assail, But fear above his hunger does prevail, He knows his foe too strong, and must be gone : He grins, as he looks back, and howls, as he goes on.
Pàgina 265 - In the forest, the capercailzie does not always present an easy mark ; for, dipping down from the pines nearly to the ground, as is frequently the case, they are often almost out of distance before one can properly take aim.
Pàgina 273 - So long, however, as the old male birds are alive, they will not, it is said, permit the young ones, or those of the preceding season, to play. Should the old birds, however, be killed, the • CAPERCAILLJE — Tetraa umjaUm young ones, in the course of a day or two, usually open their pipes.
Pàgina 267 - ... with a good rifle, is no ignoble amusement. Among other expedients resorted to in the northern forests for the destruction of the capercailzie, is the following: — During the autumnal months, after flushing and dispersing the brood, people place themselves, in ambush, and imitate the cry of the old or young birds, as circumstances may require. By thus attracting them to the spci, they are often enabled to shoot the whole brood in succession.
Pàgina 88 - ... to berries he is likewise very partial, and during the autumnal months, when they are ripe, he devours vast quantities of cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, cloudberries, and other berries common to the Scandinavian forests. Ripe corn he also eats, and...
Pàgina 297 - Near Katrineberg, there is a valuable fishery for salmon, ten or twelve thousand of these fish being taken annually. These salmon are bred in a lake, and, in consequence of cataracts, cannot have access to the sea. They are small in size and inferior in flavour," which may also be asserted of salmon taken in the neighbourhood of Toronto.
Pàgina 271 - ... or play as it is termed in Sweden, to attract the hens about him. This is usually from the first dawn of day to sunrise, or from a little after sunset until it is quite dark. The time, however, more or less depends upon the mildness of the weather and the advanced state of the season. During his
Pàgina 263 - ... peck people. He never becomes so tame and familiar as the black-cock. " Even in his wild state, the capercali frequently forgets his inherent shyness, and will attack people when approaching his place of resort. Mr. Adlerberg mentions such an occurrence. During a number of years, an old...
Pàgina 74 - ... game would be exterminated altogether. In the summer, and often when the birds are hardly out of their shells, the slaughter is commenced both with traps and guns ; and during the subsequent long winters of some five or six months' duration, every device which the ingenuity of man can invent, is put into execution to destroy them.