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Page 325
... look for me and demand their grub . Foxes give one a good deal of anxiety in May and June , when the cubs are about half grown . On arriving home to - day the first news I hear is that two dead cubs have been picked up : " one looks as ...
... look for me and demand their grub . Foxes give one a good deal of anxiety in May and June , when the cubs are about half grown . On arriving home to - day the first news I hear is that two dead cubs have been picked up : " one looks as ...
Page 344
... look anything like that size . Well- bred horses always look so much smaller than they really are , especially if they are of good shape and well proportioned . Alas ! how few of them , even thoroughbreds , have the real make and shape ...
... look anything like that size . Well- bred horses always look so much smaller than they really are , especially if they are of good shape and well proportioned . Alas ! how few of them , even thoroughbreds , have the real make and shape ...
Page 359
... look at any artificial fly , even in the rippling breeze ; there is nothing small enough in any fly- book to catch them this afternoon . But when the sun gets low , and the great brown moths come out and flutter over the water , the red ...
... look at any artificial fly , even in the rippling breeze ; there is nothing small enough in any fly- book to catch them this afternoon . But when the sun gets low , and the great brown moths come out and flutter over the water , the red ...
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