 I fired. Puss gave an active bound at this unlookedfor attack, and took her leave with far less ceremony than she made her entree. " I had just re-loaded, when my guide appeared with a breathless malediction on my gun. He had seen my friend going down...  The moor and the loch - Pagina 103door John Colquhoun - 1840Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John William Carleton - 1855 - 528 pagina’s
...malediction on my gun. He had seen my friend going down the mountain, but quite beyond recall ; and then returning to me, had stumbled on the ptarmigan, most...conspicuously perched on the top of a rock. He was in tho act of taking his marks, to know the place again, when my shot abruptly put an end to his schemes.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1859 - 408 pagina’s
...for the cessation of the storm. Scarcely had it began to abate, when an Alpine hare came courtseying past, about eighty yards from my shelter, and then...were equally dissatisfied with the sound, as their four-fpoted ally of the crags, and made the same use of their wings as she did of her legs. It was... | |
 | John Colquhoun - 1884 - 544 pagina’s
...for the cessation of the storm. Scarcely had it begun to abate, when an alpine hare came curtseying past about eighty yards from my shelter, and then...the place again, in the hope of finding me, when my ehot abruptly put an end to his schemes. The birds were equally dissatisfied with the sound as their... | |
 | 526 pagina’s
...malediction on my gun. He had seen my friend going down the mountain, but quite beyond recall ; and then returning to me, had stumbled on the ptarmigan, most...perched on the top of a rock. He was in the act of taking1 his marks, to know the place again, when my shot abruptly put an end to his schemes. The birds... | |
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