The North British Review, Volume 40W. P. Kennedy, 1864 - English literature |
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Page 300
... guillemots , those are the best birds in Faroe . They give life and they take it ; many are fed by them , and by them many have lost life and limb . As for the guillemots some folk call them stupid , and so they are in some things , but ...
... guillemots , those are the best birds in Faroe . They give life and they take it ; many are fed by them , and by them many have lost life and limb . As for the guillemots some folk call them stupid , and so they are in some things , but ...
Page 301
... guillemots are hatched , say about the middle of June . Then we go into the guillemot's own kingdom , and catch him at his roost . Sometimes we attack him from above , some- times from below . From above we get at him by a rope often ...
... guillemots are hatched , say about the middle of June . Then we go into the guillemot's own kingdom , and catch him at his roost . Sometimes we attack him from above , some- times from below . From above we get at him by a rope often ...
Page 302
... guillemots breed he unbinds him- self from the rope , keeping his slings on his thighs and shoulders , but he must ... guillemots more than anything else . A handy fowler will ' figla ' a thousand guillemots in a day , and he can carry ...
... guillemots breed he unbinds him- self from the rope , keeping his slings on his thighs and shoulders , but he must ... guillemots more than anything else . A handy fowler will ' figla ' a thousand guillemots in a day , and he can carry ...
Page 304
... guillemot . We begin to catch them with nets on the wing much in the same way as the young guillemots . The ' eelbearers ' or breeding birds we always spare . But till the breeding - time is past we have work enough with the last year's ...
... guillemot . We begin to catch them with nets on the wing much in the same way as the young guillemots . The ' eelbearers ' or breeding birds we always spare . But till the breeding - time is past we have work enough with the last year's ...
Page 305
... guillemot , for some of them late birds and stragglers stay the whole year through , but from the puffin we have a saw of a man one seldom sees . no more of him than we do of a puffin at Yule . ' The puffin has other foes besides man ...
... guillemot , for some of them late birds and stragglers stay the whole year through , but from the puffin we have a saw of a man one seldom sees . no more of him than we do of a puffin at Yule . ' The puffin has other foes besides man ...
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