. The complete manual for young sportsmen: with directions for handling the gun, the rifle, and the rod; the art of shooting on the wing; the breaking, management, and hunting of the dog; the varieties and habits of game; river, lake, and seafishing, etc. ... Hunting; Shooting; Fishing; Dogs. THE HOUND. All the different varieties of the hound, which finds and follows his game by nose, seem to be derived origi- nally from the old English bloodhound, sleuth hound, Tal- bot or Southern hound, all of which were modifications of one animal, the same as that described by Shakspeare in those immorta
. The complete manual for young sportsmen: with directions for handling the gun, the rifle, and the rod; the art of shooting on the wing; the breaking, management, and hunting of the dog; the varieties and habits of game; river, lake, and seafishing, etc. ... Hunting; Shooting; Fishing; Dogs. THE HOUND. All the different varieties of the hound, which finds and follows his game by nose, seem to be derived origi- nally from the old English bloodhound, sleuth hound, Tal- bot or Southern hound, all of which were modifications of one animal, the same as that described by Shakspeare in those immortal lines of Midsummer Night's Dream, which, familiar as household words to all lovers of poetry, deserve to be as well known to all sportsmen, for the admirable description they convey of the old English hound of the Elizabethan era, undoubtedly the parent of all the modern families from the stately staghound down to the minute Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York, W. A. Townsend & Adams
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