The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 164
e water. After rains, when the river is nearly level 150 THE FIELD BOOK. with its banks, use a caterpillar-fly, or ■■<■ smallred palmer and yellow-gentle (the yellower the bettor), run the book through its skin, anddraw it up to the tail of the fly, then whip onthe surface, the dace will rise… … This dog has been erroneously called theDanish dog by some authors, and Buffon, andsome other naturalists, imagine him to be theharrier of Bengal; but his native country isDalmatia, a mountainous district of EuropeanTurkey. He has been domesticated in Italyfor upwards of two centuries, and is the…
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