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Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman

John Potter Hamilton

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. DIFFICULTY RESPECTING SCENT.? REFRESHMENT RECOMMENDED.- MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. ATTENTION TO FARMERS. Exulting till he finds their nobler sense, Their disproportioned speed does recompense; Then cursing his conspiring feet, whose scent Betrays that safety which their swiftness lent.?Denhaji. The scent is a problem that the best and ablest sportsman has never been able to solve, however long he may have pursued field recreations. With a soft wind blowing from the south, a gentleman goes out with his hounds or gun, in the expectation of a good run or well-filled game bag, when to his surprise and great disappointment the scent is found to be bad; at other times when the wind is cold, and in an easterly quarter, and a slight frost during the night, by eleven or twelve o'clock, the scent being good, I have enjoyed a good run with fox-hounds. There is another question on which there has been much disputation amongst sportsmen, whether game when under the strong excitement of fear is able to withhold its scent. In the course of my shooting campaigns I have witnessed some curious DIFFICULTY RESPECTING SCENT. 23 instances of this. I have sometimes marked down the exact spot where a bird had alighted, more especially with the landrail and quail; but on going to the place with my dogs, no bird was to be found, nor would the dogs be able to make out any scent. It is possible the bird might have risen again without my perceiving it, when . employed in getting over a hedge or attending to the dogs, if it had happened only once, but such a frequent occurrence is difficult to be accounted for. There can be no doubt that when pheasants and partridges are sitting on the nest, Providence, to protect them against vermin, has given them the power to withhold their s...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman. To get started finding Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 98

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217270379

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. DIFFICULTY RESPECTING SCENT.? REFRESHMENT RECOMMENDED.- MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. ATTENTION TO FARMERS. Exulting till he finds their nobler sense, Their disproportioned speed does recompense; Then cursing his conspiring feet, whose scent Betrays that safety which their swiftness lent.?Denhaji. The scent is a problem that the best and ablest sportsman has never been able to solve, however long he may have pursued field recreations. With a soft wind blowing from the south, a gentleman goes out with his hounds or gun, in the expectation of a good run or well-filled game bag, when to his surprise and great disappointment the scent is found to be bad; at other times when the wind is cold, and in an easterly quarter, and a slight frost during the night, by eleven or twelve o'clock, the scent being good, I have enjoyed a good run with fox-hounds. There is another question on which there has been much disputation amongst sportsmen, whether game when under the strong excitement of fear is able to withhold its scent. In the course of my shooting campaigns I have witnessed some curious DIFFICULTY RESPECTING SCENT. 23 instances of this. I have sometimes marked down the exact spot where a bird had alighted, more especially with the landrail and quail; but on going to the place with my dogs, no bird was to be found, nor would the dogs be able to make out any scent. It is possible the bird might have risen again without my perceiving it, when . employed in getting over a hedge or attending to the dogs, if it had happened only once, but such a frequent occurrence is difficult to be accounted for. There can be no doubt that when pheasants and partridges are sitting on the nest, Providence, to protect them against vermin, has given them the power to withhold their s...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman. To get started finding Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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