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...t. It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting- crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to their door, of the remainder we should find that the ?men who don?t like it? have the preponderance. It is pretty much the same, I think, with all amus...

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............................ 9 THE LADY WHO RIDES TO HOUNDS ..................................................................................... 15 THE HUNTING FARMER ............................................................................................................ 20 THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND NEVER JUMPS ...................................................................

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...S BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Hunting Sketches by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Hunting Sketches by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...................................................................... 15 THE HUNTING FARMER ............................................................... ...................................................................... 26 THE HUNTING PARSON................................................................ ....................................................................... 43 4 Hunting Sketches HUNTING SKETCHES BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND... ...re to deduct from the hunt- ing-crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to their door, of the remainder we should find that the ... ...ugh they do the thing constantly, they never like it. Of all such men, the hunting men are perhaps the most to be pitied. They are easily recognized b... ...ly recognized by any one who cares to scrutinize the men around him in the hunting field. It is not to be supposed that all those who, in common par- ... ... in common par- lance, do not ride, are to be included among the number of hunting men who don’t like it. Many a man who sticks constantly to the road...

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Excerpt: ?The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits? by Lewis Carroll.

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...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. “The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits” by Lewis Carroll, the Penn... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll PREFACE If—a... ...ged at enormous expense, Had the whole of their cash in his care. 4 The Hunting of the Snark There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck, ... ...ut, that one being “Snark,” The good Bellman engaged him at once. 5 The Hunting of the Snark He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, Wh... ...remark, Protested, with tears in its eyes, That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark Could atone for that dismal surprise! It strongly ... ...er kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy. 6 The Hunting of the Snark Fit the Second THE BELLMAN’S SPEECH T... ...e not pleased with the view, Which consisted to chasms and crags. 7 The Hunting of the Snark The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low, ... ...that they add to the beauty of scenes— A sentiment open to doubt. 8 The Hunting of the Snark “The fifth is ambition. It next will be right ... ... there’s no chance of a Snark— We have hardly a minute to waste!” 9 The Hunting of the Snark “I skip forty years,” said the Baker, in tears, ...

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...ony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine, Arabella Trefoil, it presents a scathing but ultimately sympathetic portrayal of a woman who has abandoned virtually all scruples in her quest for a husband. Through the eponymous Senator,...

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...limbs the old tower of the title, in the grounds of the Constantine estate. Lady Constantine, whose husband has been absent some years on an extended hunting and exploring journey to Africa, joins the young man in his stargazing, and supports his astronomical ambitions by buying him equipment, though his dreams of scientific renown are disappointed.Their relationship then ...

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...Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field....

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...ish Columbia. The story revolves around Jimmy not being sure whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he and some friends were out hunting one day. Not exactly a bushman, he needs to head northwest to avoid capture by the officials who are out to find him and bring him to trial. At least that's what he suspects. Survival in the wilderness for one who was...

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...abeau Bridge Twilight Clotilde The White Snow The Farewell Acrobats The Bells The Gypsy The Sign One Evening Moonlight Autumn Ill Hotels Hunting Horns Vitam Impendere Amori The Bestiary: or Orpheus’s Procession Apollinaire’s Notes to the Bestiary Index of First Lines...

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...nown to be a great lover of beauty, and she - alas - is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him, she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident. She wants to go visit him, but he will not receive her, as he wants only her love - not her pity. With the help of their mutual friend and doctor, she gets the position as his nurse under a presumed name, an...

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...r aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters. (Summary from Gesine and Wikipedia)...

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...shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion. Freud’s earliest patients will soon enter the waiting-room in their turn. Whilst out hunting two friends come across a strange waif-like woman shut up in a decaying chateau which one of them dubs “the Palace of the Sleeping Beauty”. Soon we are dragged back to the terrible masculine reality of the 1812 retrea...

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...ine 31 Setting sights 32 A Luas cums into the Green 33 Chimney-pot puff 34 Malin head 35 Hunting happiness 36 The joke 37 Mundane tourist 38 B&B 39 Street dance 40 Stephens Green 41 The Woe of Padstow 42 ...

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...rous way of his struggles with a new job, new culture, and with his landlord and neighbour Mr. ‘Flurry’ Knox whose prime, if not only, interest is in hunting, which forms the background to all the stories. Miss Somerville was herself the first woman anywhere to become an M.F.H. (Summary by A.J.M.)...

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... entreat you, Mr. Venator, to say what you are able in the commendation of Hunting, to which you are so much affected; and if time will serve, I will ... ... beast; to men who have their several recreations upon it, as horse races, hunting, sweet smells, pleasant walks: the earth feeds man, and all those s... ...t both feed him, and afford him recreation. What pleasure doth man take in hunting the stately Stag, the generous Buck, the wild Boar, the cunning Ott... ...ourselves on earth, walk, and talk, and live, and eat, and drink, and go a hunting: of which recreation I will say a little, and then leave Mr. Piscat... ... say a little, and then leave Mr. Piscator to the commendation of Angling. Hunting is a game for princes and noble persons; it hath been highly prized... ... that Xenophon bestowed on his Cyrus, that he was a hunter of wild beasts. Hunting trains up The Compleat Angler — Walton 16 the younger nobility to... ...e use of manly exercises in their riper age. What more manly exercise than hunting the Wild Boar, the Stag, the Buck, the Fox, or the Hare? How doth i... ...ith whom we discourse daily. I might enlarge myself in the commendation of Hunting, and of the noble Hound especially, as also of the docibleness of d... ...ant time, nor my attention to hear you enlarge your dis course concerning hunting. Venator. Not I, Sir: I remember you said that Angling itself was o...

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...1. My death 2. Winning death 3. The 60th Birthday 4. Time of Grand Alpha 5. Opposition forces 6. Consideration on death 7. Me 8. Hunting 9. Farm 10. Zombie 11. Recovery 12 The Earth...

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...A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses: These eight dragon tales are filled with the imaginative wit of children's author Edith Nesbit. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)...

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...journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem focuses upon the relationship between two trappers - Hugh Glass and Jamie - who, after fighting and hunting together, consequently develop a close friendship. The poem revolves around the betrayal of Hugh by Jamie: who leaves Hugh alone as good as dead to die by the Missouri. But Hugh lives - and recovers against all odds, ...

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..............................7 THE CHARCOAL-BURNER AND THE FULLER ..............7 THE FATHER AND HIS SONS ....................................8 THE BOY HUNTING LOCUSTS ..................................8 THE COCK AND THE JEWEL ....................................8 THE KINGDOM OF THE LION ...................................9 THE WOLF AND THE CRANE ...............................

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...be bro ken as easily as these sticks.” THE B OY H UNTING L OCUSTS A BOY was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpio...

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...he Simple Life Satires: Book II Satire III – On Human Folly Satires: Book II Satire IV – The Art of Good Living Satires: Book II Satire V – Legacy Hunting Satires: Book II Satire VI – Town versus Country Satires: Book II Satire VII – Of Spiritual Freedom Satires: Book II Satire VIII – A Dinner Party The Epistles Epistles: Book I Epistle I – Introduction – To Maecen...

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... by greenhorns whose inexperience nearly kills him, but after being saved by John Thornton, he at last finds a man he can love. Then on a remote gold-hunting expedition, Buck hears a call emanating from the woods and speaking to the wild heart of his distant ancestors. The lure of it almost balances the great love he bears for Thornton, but events take him away from his ol...

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...Her Greed V Messalinus As Custodian of the Sybilline Books VI Love’s Compulsion Sulpicia’s Garland I Sulpicia on the First of March II Cerinthus Hunting III A Prayer For Sulpicia In Her Illness IV Cerinthus’s Birthday V Sulpicia’s Birthday Sulpicia’s Verses I Love Proclaimed II The Hateful Journey III The Journey Abandoned IV Her Reproach V In Sickness VI He...

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...still—” “Of course I was in a fix—an infernal fix. And he made me wild too—hunting me about the house, fooling about with his revolver, locking and un... ... H G Wells CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXV THE HUNTING OF THE HUNTING OF THE HUNTING OF THE HUNTING OF THE HUNTING OF THE ... ...m. Heaven send us cold nights and rain! The whole country- side must begin hunting and keep hunting. I tell you, Adye, he is a danger, a disaster; unl...

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... I Men, dogs, and horses, all are dead; He is the sole survivor. His hunting feats have him bereft Of his right eye, as you may see: And the... ... horse man ghost, He travels on along the vale. And now, perhaps, he’s hunting sheep, A fierce and dreadful hunter he! Yon valley, that’s so t...

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... me, then?” “ A hundred and thirty-four dollars-all stolen,” said Harvey , hunting wildly through his pockets. “Give them back.” A curious change flit... ...to heave at the lead; For it’s windy weather,” etc. Tom Platt seemed to be hunting for sometliing. Dan crouched lower, but sang louder: “Up jumped the... ...re room than was absolutely necessary ,-Disko did not wish to spend a week hunting 82 Captains Courageous for his cable,-but scuttled up into the win...

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...ility of Sensation. Truly a fine result! A man may very well love beef, or hunting, or a woman; but surely, surely, not a Per- manent Possibility of S...

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... the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...gers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French ... ... the one dressed in violet, the other in green. He on the left, in violet, was his equerry; he on the right, in green, was the grand veneur. One of th... ...ing sadly but persistently on both sides of the street, watching, no doubt, for the arrival of the traveler he had mentioned to the host. In this way ... ...aculties. Look at my sword, a Spanish blade, the one I wore at Rochelle; it served me for thirty years without fail; one day in the winter it fell upo... ...x de Montlezun’s Accounts THE CLOCK OF ST. PAUL was striking seven as Aramis, on horseback, dressed as a simple citizen, that is to say, in colored su...

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...rticular facts. He said, “He no more regarded a field of wheat when he was hunting, than he did the highway; that he had injured sev- eral poor farmer... ...ld sacrifice everything to his country; and I believe he would, except his hunting, which he stuck so close to, that in five years together he went bu... ...APTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI Moral reflections by Joseph Andrews; with the hunting adventure, and parson Adams’s miraculous escape. “I HAVE OFTEN WOND... ...rious jests which were made on Adams; some of them de- claring that parson-hunting was the best sport in the world; others commending his standing at ...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack ............................................................................................................................ 23 Kaa?s Hunting .....................................................

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........................................................................... 4 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack ............................................. .................................................................... 23 Kaa’s Hunting ...................................................................... ... of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle I T WAS... ...de, and then he said spitefully: “Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he ha... ...illing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-... ...agheera to himself, lying down again. “Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!” Mowgli was far and far... ... bottom of the valley. There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck tu... ...ide alone, to meet those myste- rious things that are called men. Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur b... ...ngue to it! Hark! O hark! Once, twice and again! Kaa’s Hunting His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s ...

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...nghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire. Juan, now in England, is invited to spend the autumn with a hunting party at the ancient country seat of Lord Henry and Lady Adeline Amundeville. There, he meets the most intriguing of the Byronic heroines, Aurora Raby, and is visited by a ghost with ample breasts (!). That is the nar...

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...being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it's also a rousing adventure story. One is left with the impression that hunting and catching a whale in a sailing ship was akin to you or me being stalked, ambushed, and killed by a shoebox full of mice. (Summary by the reader.)...

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......................... 44 CHAPTER VI. THE WHITE DOE?S WARNING ....................................................................... 51 CHAPTER VII. HUNTING............................................................................................................ 60 CHAPTER VIII. DUCK SHOOTING..................................................................................

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............................................................. 51 CHAPTER VII. HUNTING....................................................................... ...her father! There were other children, sons who have given them- selves to hunting and trapping in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory; but Hester re... ...last he was snowed up and frozen to death, with one of his boys, on a bear hunting expedition. Not very long after, Hester married this sturdy America... ...ny woman. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VII. VII. VII. VII. VII. HUNTING HUNTING HUNTING HUNTING HUNTING EMILY TOLD MR. DAYMAN the whole tru... ... he was riding along the lanes, he met Perrault and T revor coming in from hunting. Alured had a very pretty pony, but he was growing rather large for... ...ined by a dealer he knew; and that another year, Fulk himself would go out hunting with him. Perrault began to pity him for having missed the run. Why... ...more for being kept back, and Perrault ended by saying that if on the next hunting day he could meet them at 62 Charlotte M. Yonge the corner of the ...

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... man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at both. Now with no aim for his life, he drifts until he takes up residence with a remote Indian tribe. Soon he learns of a wood the Indians avoid, as it is inhabited by a dangerous D...

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...YOKE: 22 WHAT DO WE WANT?: 23 THE GREAT ARMY: 24 TEST AT GEOGRAPHY: 25 MYSELF LIKE A CONTRADICTION: 26 FIRST CLASS PLANE TICKET: 28 NOBODY: 33 HUNTING: 34 HOSPITALITY: 35 DESIRE: 36 WITHOUT CEREMONIES: 37 YES AND NO: 39 STRIP-TEASE: 40 OH, YES: 41 COURAGE: 42 RECIPROCITY: 43 PRAYER: 44 CONTENTMENT: 48 WISH: 49 ALONE IN THE CHRISTMAS NIGHT: 51 THE MATCHM...

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...e streams are dry, And we be playmates, thou and I, Till yonder cloud—Good Hunting!—loose The rain that breaks our Water Truce. T HE LAW OF THE JUNGLE... ...ery grave, and mumbled half to himself: “If I were alone I would change my hunting-grounds now, before the others began to think. And yet—hunting amon... ...ng he brought the news to the beasts, too weak to force their way to fresh hunting-grounds, that the sun was killing the Jungle for three days” flight... ...carce; but water is water, and when there is but one source of supply, all hunting stops while the Jungle People go there for their needs. In good sea... ...arting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and fro. “Good hunting, all you of my blood,” he 9 Rudyard Kipling added, lying own at fu... ...n, between his teeth, “But for that which is the Law it would be very good hunting.” The quick-spread ears of the deer caught the last sentence, and a... ...the wild elephant. “The T ruce holds, Bagheera. This is no time to talk of hunting.” “Who should know better than I?” Bagheera answered, rolling his y... ...ail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep; And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep. The jackal may follow the T... ...any, and snapping his jaws on the last word. “We also might attend to that hunting,” said Bagheera, with a little switch-switch of his tail, looking a...

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...s Pictures of Life and Character which he appears trying on the delightful hunting-cap which Mrs. Briggs flings into the fire! How cosy all the Briggs...

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...in good form, with the exception that, owing to the absence of large game, hunting does not hold the usual place of honour in their scheme of life. Th... ...e class has arisen, and indi- cates the steps of its early growth. Nomadic hunting tribes in various parts of the world illustrate these more primitiv... ...e primitive phases of the differentiation. Any one of the North Ameri- can hunting tribes may be taken as a convenient illustration. These tribes can ... ...e men are exempt from these vulgar employ- ments and are reserved for war, hunting, sports, and devout observances. A very nice discrimination is ordi... ...rm are: (1) the community must be of a predatory habit of life (war or the hunting of large game or both); that is to say, the men, who constitute the... ...pose classed with 12 The Theory of the Leisure Class women. But the men’s hunting and fighting are both of the same general character. Both are of a ... ...eoretical distinction between exploit and drudgery adhered to that in many hunting tribes the man must not bring home the game which he has killed, bu... ...id of the chase, but with a difference. As the community passes out of the hunting stage proper, hunting gradually becomes differentiated into two dis... ...employment of the lei- sure class are noble; such as government, fighting, hunting, the care of arms and accoutrements, and the like — in short, those...

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...ed.” And so on and so on—quick-poured showman’s patter, sauced in the Bhil hunting-proverbs and tales of their own brand of coarse humour till the lan... ...now to serve as beaters for me. These people are un- happy, and we will go hunting till they are well. T o-night we will make a feast.” It is written ... ...owed discreetly. The tiger made no attempt to turn into the jungle; he was hunting for sight and breath—nose up, mouth open, the tremendous fore-legs ...

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...ssed swords and the number of the order in gilt figures. Vincennes bears a hunting-horn; Vienna, a V closed and barred. You can tell Berlin by the two... ... it if they send the lawyers here to poke their noses into the affair like hunting-dogs. I cannot get M. Schmucke to sell a few pictures unless you li... ... I can see that you will be walking about the boulevards in a week or two, hunting up pretty little curiosities again. You are not ill; I never saw yo...

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...uck her that the lover who besieged the lady would forfeit her roaming and hunting fancy. ‘I wonder what that gentleman is doing now,’ she said to Chi... ...on’t think she has come to town yet. She generally sees out the end of the hunting season. Leave the letter to me: it shall go. You, with your keen ob...

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...g you out was easier than I expected,” the leader said. “Well, you woulda been hiding, too, if those things were after you. Long story short, I was hunting…er, uh, not real hunting like shooting a buck or anything. I’m a researcher for The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO. Ever heard of us?” she asked, feeling like a fool for mentioning it to the gorgeous...

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... drove along a winding path and parked in front of what appeared to be a large hunting lodge. 147 J.Cross/Artemis Several men were standing, l...

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...umans, between “good” vampires—those who have altered their biological needs and can use synthetic blood—and “bad” vampires—Rogues who actively enjoy hunting, draining and butchering humans. Now Sheriff Hudson and his friends are in the middle of the war, which has gone above-ground and hot. The chase to catch and stop—kill if necessary—the Rogues consumes Hudson and his ...

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... little as $30.00 a year fishing. Not too bad. Let’s compare this to, say, hunting, another popular hobby in Penn- sylvania. Obviously, you’re going t...

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...ing. “I should have thought you would enter a little into the pleasures of hunting. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try.... ...es of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination.” “W ell, there is something in ... ...liot you would come down earlier. Y ou can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so diffi- cult to get up on ot... ...r mornings.” “That is your want of understanding, Rosy. I can get up to go hunting because I like it.” “What would you think of me if I came down two ... ...t. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten y... ...a share in the stake. Fred liked play, espe- cially billiards, as he liked hunting or riding a steeple-chase; and he only liked it the better because ... ... hack, which would draw upon occasion; being about to marry and to give up hunting. The hunter was in a friend’s stable at some little distance; there... ...second marriage. It is no more to me than if you talked of women going fox-hunting: whether it is admirable in them or not, I shall not follow them. P... ... taken from him. He had only come here because he was ill and somebody was hunting him— somebody was after him he had told nobody anything, he had kep...

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...beginning of a new phase in human experience. For endless ages man led the hunting life, migrating after his food, camping, homeless, as to this day a... ...ing a cordon round a jungle full of the most diversified sort of game. The hunting only begins when you leave the cordon behind you and push into the ... ...he new scientific wonderland. At present dietary and regimen are the happy hunting ground of the quack and that sort of volunteer specialist, 249 H. ...