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Outing Volume 60; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction epub

Outing Volume 60; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction epub

Outing Volume 60; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction. Caspar Whitney

Outing Volume 60; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction
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Author: Caspar Whitney
Number of Pages: 392 pages
Published Date: 20 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236274984
File Name: Outing.Volume.60;.Sport,.Adventure,.Travel,.Fiction.pdf
Download Link: Outing Volume 60; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...have crushed the life out any beast less tough than that savage old warrior. He, however, turned on himself marvelously, and quicker than thought, bit upward with desperate strength, bit deep into the soft white feathers and beyond into the delicate flesh. His teeth met. The owl let forth one long-drawn, graveyard screech, and opening her claws, fled, and the stoat returned to his amazed family, not slowly, and on his back, hitting the ground with a respectable thud and rebounding again instantly on to his feet as if nothing had happened and ready to fight all the world. Then the Red Patrol drank. Now it is on record that two and twenty rats went out from the barn in the darkness to drink at the dewpond--for rats are worse even than stoats; thirty-six hours without water kills them--during the time that the stoats were there, rather a long time, it must be owned. None returned. A gang of perfectly delighted jackdaws "buried" their almost untouched bodies in the morning, untouched, that its, save for a single, clean bite at the base of each neck, just where the spinal column branches from the brain. There is never any need for a second such bite. It is the stoats1 mark. You cannot mis take it. After that the Red Patrol went home to sleep, and rats went to the dew-pond to drink and returned again alive and unhurt--a hurt rat never lives among his comrades longer than about six minutes--with only the regularity ordained percentage of casualties due to owls, weasels, foxes, fights, and fathers, or grandfathers, who did good work bypractising cannibalism more or less on the sly. Night after night this warfare went on, and night after night the tale of the slain grew and noticeably grew. But night after night, too, the steady gnawing at the corn-sacks c...

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