The National Review, Volume 87W.H. Allen, 1926 - English literature |
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Page 91
... passed in the night , and the record of those more lately about . Here , lacing the snow in criss - cross pattern , are the footprints of rabbits , showing how they hopped to and fro , scratching here , hopping there , and then ...
... passed in the night , and the record of those more lately about . Here , lacing the snow in criss - cross pattern , are the footprints of rabbits , showing how they hopped to and fro , scratching here , hopping there , and then ...
Page 92
... passing close to a roosting covey of partridges , whose 66 squat is plainly outlined in the snow , but had not scented them , though they had evidently smelt a field mouse , for there is shown the impression where one of the foxes ...
... passing close to a roosting covey of partridges , whose 66 squat is plainly outlined in the snow , but had not scented them , though they had evidently smelt a field mouse , for there is shown the impression where one of the foxes ...
Page 94
... passing of my badger , but of several others , to say nothing of the trail of a fox and of sundry minor creatures . Among the latter is a curious track , a narrow ribbon- like mark across the snow . For a second the latter puzzles me ...
... passing of my badger , but of several others , to say nothing of the trail of a fox and of sundry minor creatures . Among the latter is a curious track , a narrow ribbon- like mark across the snow . For a second the latter puzzles me ...
Page 95
... Passing on , I breast the slope , pushing between the snow- laden bushes and following pathways already trodden by the badgers , until I come to the earth whither these paths lead . Now what about badgers lying up in wintry weather ...
... Passing on , I breast the slope , pushing between the snow- laden bushes and following pathways already trodden by the badgers , until I come to the earth whither these paths lead . Now what about badgers lying up in wintry weather ...
Page 101
... passed close beside its barren eastern slopes ; and , when we first clam- bered down into the Kedong Valley , the other volcano , Suswa , sprung up as a solitary mass out of the broad , prairie- like valley some fifteen miles away to ...
... passed close beside its barren eastern slopes ; and , when we first clam- bered down into the Kedong Valley , the other volcano , Suswa , sprung up as a solitary mass out of the broad , prairie- like valley some fifteen miles away to ...
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