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... flesh of other animals , they never make war with them , nor engage in any thing like civil war amongst themselves . They live in peace , because their appetites are simple , and nature has supplied them with ample provision ; and ...
... flesh of other animals , they never make war with them , nor engage in any thing like civil war amongst themselves . They live in peace , because their appetites are simple , and nature has supplied them with ample provision ; and ...
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... flesh , because the gum shrinks and retires ; and at last , about the fifteenth or sixteenth year , the horse SHELLS . It is sometimes said , that a horse is not capable of any great fatigue till his tushes have cut the skin . The ...
... flesh , because the gum shrinks and retires ; and at last , about the fifteenth or sixteenth year , the horse SHELLS . It is sometimes said , that a horse is not capable of any great fatigue till his tushes have cut the skin . The ...
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... flesh of the Horse is bitter , and unpalatable to the taste . This , however , is not true . It is eaten in the various countries of Asia ; and the Calmuc Tartars are so partial to it , that they seldom eat any other kind of flesh ...
... flesh of the Horse is bitter , and unpalatable to the taste . This , however , is not true . It is eaten in the various countries of Asia ; and the Calmuc Tartars are so partial to it , that they seldom eat any other kind of flesh ...
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... flesh of them , that they have even a proverb expressive of it . But it does not appear that these thirty - two wild asses were all taken in the forests , and therefore it is pro- bable they had been brought up in large parks for the ...
... flesh of them , that they have even a proverb expressive of it . But it does not appear that these thirty - two wild asses were all taken in the forests , and therefore it is pro- bable they had been brought up in large parks for the ...
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... grass can be trans- muted into flesh ; and for this purpose , nature has , in general , furnished such animals as feed upon herbage with four stomachs , through which the food successively passes , 46 RUMINATING ANIMALS .
... grass can be trans- muted into flesh ; and for this purpose , nature has , in general , furnished such animals as feed upon herbage with four stomachs , through which the food successively passes , 46 RUMINATING ANIMALS .
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Page 255 - And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 322 - ... prostrate foe, looking round in conscious power and pride upon the bands of his assailants — and with a port the most noble and imposing that can be conceived. It was the most magnificent thing I ever witnessed. The danger of our friends, however, rendered it at the moment too terrible to enjoy either the grand or the ludicrous part of the picture. We expected every instant to see one or more of them torn in pieces ; nor, though the rest of the party were standing within fifty paces with their...
Page 108 - Now, shepherds, to your helpless charge be kind, Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict : for from the bellowing east, In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains At one wide waft, and o•er the hapless flocks, Hid in the hollow of two neighbouring hills, The billowy tempest whelms; till, upward urged, The valley to a shining mountain swells, Tipt with a wreath high-curling in...
Page 322 - ... turned calmly away, and driving the snarling dogs like rats from among his heels, bounded over the adjoining thicket like a cat over a footstool, clearing brakes and bushes twelve or fifteen feet high, as readily as if they had been tufts of grass, and, abandoning the jungle, retreated towards the mountains.
Page 126 - I have described the process somewhere else ; — it is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon the living one ; the ewe immediately acknowledges the relationship, and after the skin has warmed on it, so as to give it something of the smell of her own progeny, and it has sucked her two or three times, she accepts and nourishes it as her own ever after. Whether it is from joy at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or 242 THE MIRROR.
Page 171 - My grandfather was killed in the chase of the Chamois ; my father was killed also ; and I am so certain that I shall be killed myself, that I call this bag, which I always carry hunting, my windingsheet. I am sure that I shall have no other; and yet, if you were to offer to make my fortune upon the condition that I should renounce the chase of the Chamois, I should refuse your kindness.
Page 127 - He would not let me do it, but bid me let her stand over her lamb for a day or two, and perhaps a twin would be forthcoming. I did so, and faithfully she did stand to her charge.
Page 17 - ... gambols are dangerous to the timid or unskilful. They are all easily and suddenly alarmed, when anything they do not understand forcibly catches their attention, and they are then to be feared by the bad horseman, and carefully guarded against by the good. Very serious accidents have happened to the best. But, besides their general disposition to playfulness, there is a great propensity in them to become what the jockeys call vicious.
Page 320 - Hottentots the leaders of the chase. The first point was to track the lion to his covert. This was effected by a few of the Hottentots on foot : commencing from the spot where the horse was killed, they followed the spoor...
Page 322 - Bastuards, in place of now pouring in their volley upon him, instantly turned and fled helter-skelter, leaving him to do his pleasure upon the defenceless Scots ; who, with empty guns, were tumbling over each other, in their hurry to escape the clutch of the rampant savage. In a twinkling he was upon them, and with one stroke of his paw dashed the nearest to the ground. The scene was terrific ! There stood the lion with his...