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... Bird Life - Sunset on the Downs - A Wild , Deserted Country - An Old Dog Fox . CHAPTER VL A GALLOP OVER THE WALLS An October Meet - Cub - Hunting - The Old Fox Again ! A Fast Gallop over the Walls - The Charm of Uncertainty - Fliers of ...
... Bird Life - Sunset on the Downs - A Wild , Deserted Country - An Old Dog Fox . CHAPTER VL A GALLOP OVER THE WALLS An October Meet - Cub - Hunting - The Old Fox Again ! A Fast Gallop over the Walls - The Charm of Uncertainty - Fliers of ...
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... Birds - Lapwings - Winter Visitants Thunderstorms - A Brilliant Meteor - Glow - Worms ― Night on the Hills - The " Blowing- Stone " -Christmas Day on the Cotswolds - A Solar Halo Hamlet Festivities - Tom Peregrine Baffled - The Mummers ...
... Birds - Lapwings - Winter Visitants Thunderstorms - A Brilliant Meteor - Glow - Worms ― Night on the Hills - The " Blowing- Stone " -Christmas Day on the Cotswolds - A Solar Halo Hamlet Festivities - Tom Peregrine Baffled - The Mummers ...
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... birds . At night he could have heard the murmuring waterfall amid a stillness only broken at intervals by the scream of the owl , the clatter of the goatsucker , or the weird barking of the foxes : for not two hundred yards from the ...
... birds . At night he could have heard the murmuring waterfall amid a stillness only broken at intervals by the scream of the owl , the clatter of the goatsucker , or the weird barking of the foxes : for not two hundred yards from the ...
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... birds is heard , rude buildings and a museum have been erected ; here these ancient relics are sheltered from wind and storm for the sake of those who lived and laboured in the remote past , and for the benefit and instruction of him ...
... birds is heard , rude buildings and a museum have been erected ; here these ancient relics are sheltered from wind and storm for the sake of those who lived and laboured in the remote past , and for the benefit and instruction of him ...
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... birds . As often as not this class of man is accompanied by a couple of dogs , marvellously trained in the art of hunting the coverts and " retrieving " a pheasant or a rabbit which may be crouching in the underwood . Hares , too , are ...
... birds . As often as not this class of man is accompanied by a couple of dogs , marvellously trained in the art of hunting the coverts and " retrieving " a pheasant or a rabbit which may be crouching in the underwood . Hares , too , are ...
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