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... Domestic Swan The Windhover Hawk and the Oil - gland On the Food of Animals On Fresh Air On Beauty in Animal Creation On the Projected Banishment of the Rooks from Scot- land On Tight Shoes , Tight Stays , and Cravats · 166 174 SOME ...
... Domestic Swan The Windhover Hawk and the Oil - gland On the Food of Animals On Fresh Air On Beauty in Animal Creation On the Projected Banishment of the Rooks from Scot- land On Tight Shoes , Tight Stays , and Cravats · 166 174 SOME ...
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... domestic nature for a visit to the Eternal City , not having been there since the year 1818 . My Whilst things were thus in progression , I had well nigh lost a servant by a singular accident . One of my swans having died by disease ...
... domestic nature for a visit to the Eternal City , not having been there since the year 1818 . My Whilst things were thus in progression , I had well nigh lost a servant by a singular accident . One of my swans having died by disease ...
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... domestic affairs , I called up the gamekeeper , and made him promise , as he valued his place , that he would protect all hawks , crows , herons , jays and magpies , within the precinct of the park during my absence . He promised me ...
... domestic affairs , I called up the gamekeeper , and made him promise , as he valued his place , that he would protect all hawks , crows , herons , jays and magpies , within the precinct of the park during my absence . He promised me ...
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... domestic hen ; but that if he allowed the duck to sit on her own eggs , it was always a failure , for the newly hatched birds were too delicate to go amongst the herbage with her , in this cold and variable climate . He showed me a huge ...
... domestic hen ; but that if he allowed the duck to sit on her own eggs , it was always a failure , for the newly hatched birds were too delicate to go amongst the herbage with her , in this cold and variable climate . He showed me a huge ...
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... domestic arrange- ments , that we might really fancy the performers not to be quite right in their heads . Whilst I am actually writing this , there are two geese on the lawn before me . One of them is a Canada goose , the other a ...
... domestic arrange- ments , that we might really fancy the performers not to be quite right in their heads . Whilst I am actually writing this , there are two geese on the lawn before me . One of them is a Canada goose , the other a ...
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