The Art of Deer-stalkingEdward Arnold, 1897 - 304 ページ |
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amongst animal antlers àvis Badenoch beast Ben-y-gloe Blair Braemar braes Bruar burn Cairn called chase Colonsay corries crags Dairg deer-stalker deer's deerhound distance dogs Donald Duke Duke of Atholl Edwin Landseer fired forest of Atholl forward Gaelic Gaick give Glen Tilt Glengarry gralloch greyhound ground hart head heard heather herd Highland hill hill-men hinds horns hounds hunting John Crerar keep killed Landseer length Lightfoot Loch Loch Etive Loch Rannoch Lochaber look Lord lying Maclaren miles moor moss mountain never night noble once party pass peat Peter Fraser poachers precipice quiet shot red-deer rifle river rock Sandy Scotland Scrope season seen sheep side sight soon speed sport sportsman spot stag stalker stalking steep stones summit Sutherland Tarff took Tortoise turned venison whilst whisky wild wind woods wounded deer
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iv ページ - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
97 ページ - Nay, then,' replies the feeble fox, ' (But hark! I hear a hen that clocks) Go, but be moderate in your food; A chicken too might do me good.
166 ページ - Her majesty," says a courtier, writing to Sir Robert Sidney, " is well and excellently disposed to hunting, for every second day she is on horseback and continues the sport long.
287 ページ - ... and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain ; which after are disposed of, some one way and some another, twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough left for us to make merry withal at our rendezvous.
46 ページ - Every thing hitherto had succeeded ; much valuable time had been spent; they had gone forward in every possible position ; their hands and knees buried in bogs, wreathing on their stomachs through the mire, or wading up the burns; and all this one brief moment might render futile, either by means of a single throb of the pulse in the act of firing, or a sudden rush of the deer, which would take him instantly out of sight. Tortoise raised his head slowly, slowly, but saw not the quarry.
287 ページ - Tinckhell, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then all the valley on each side being waylaid with a hundred couple of strong Irish greyhounds, they are let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks, and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain...
287 ページ - ... compass, they do bring, or chase in, the deer in many herds (two, three, or four hundred in a herd) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when...
287 ページ - Then after we had staid there three hours, or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the tinkhell...
138 ページ - ... especially in the Highland where there was but wood and wilderness. But most of all, this ambassador marvelled to see when the king departed, and all his men took their leave, the Highlandmen set all this fair place on a fire, that the king and the ambassador might see it.
138 ページ - ... and killed, as Lindsay heard, eighteen score harts. Next summer he went to hunt in Athol, accompanied by Queen Margaret and the Pope's ambassador, where he remained three days most nobly entertained by the Earl, and killed "thirty score of hart and hynd, with other small beasts, as roe, and roebuck, wolf and fox, and wild cats."* This last expedition was accompanied with such extraordinary circumstances, that Lindsay's account of it must be interesting.