The Huntsman of the South (Classic Reprint)
The Huntsman of the South (Classic Reprint)

Author: Alexander Hunter

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-11

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780282249281

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Excerpt from The Huntsman of the South IT is the inexorable law of Nature that all liv ing creatures prey upon one another. By beak, talons, and claw the fight was commenced, and it will end only when this world is no more. To say that sporting is a cruel pastime is to ignore the fact that all fin, fur, and feather batten upon one another, and if the rifle or gun did not end their days, they would be killed anyway. I think the greatest gift Nature can bestow upon a child is to endow him with a love of the forest, the field, the stream, and to infect his blood with a longing for field sports. It will make the boy and the man stronger, healthier and hap pier. My sporting days commenced many years ago, on a big plantation bordering the Potomac River. Game was plentiful in those days when the muzzle-loader was king, and it was a woeful day for sportsman and game alike when the breech-loader and the pump-gun were invented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Huntsman in the South
The Huntsman in the South

Author: Alexander Hunter

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2019-08-03

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781406966886

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

The Huntsman in the South Volume 1
The Huntsman in the South Volume 1

Author: Alexander Hunter

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781230375571

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII A FISHING AND HUNTING TRIP ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST Cap'n Joe Peyton lived down on Currituck Sound, North Carolina. He owned a big house, a long seine, one hundred acres of land, a thousand or more acres of marsh, a couple of double-barreled guns, a Chesapeake Bay dog, a brier-root pipe, and he had a very fine-looking wife. If there is anything more needed to make a sportsman happy, deponent knoweth it not. But to Cap'n Joe's mind there was a drawback, one element missing from his otherwise complete sum of human happiness: he frequently bemoaned the fact that Providence had not caused an appleorchard to grow near the house, a feat (to use a Hibernian expression) the hand of man could not accomplish, for the soil was one-half swamp-mud and the other half sand. The house was built between the ocean and the sound, and but a pistolshot from either. "Cap'n Peyton," as he was called by his acquaintances, and just plain "Joe" by his intimates, was a man somewhere in the fifties, over six feet tall, with a form which, in spite of its decided embonpoint, indicated great strength and vigor. I have frequently thought, as I looked at his jolly face, "Here is the personification of old Jack Falstaff!" There were the same twinkling, cunning eyes, dancing with merriment; the same bald head, garnished with long hair at the sides; the same bulbous nose, fiery red; the sensual mouth half hidden by a heavy beard; the same rich, resonant voice full of joyous bonhomie; the same careless, soulless, prevaricating Jack as portrayed by Hackett, that glorious Thespian of my boyhood days. Cap'n Peyton was also the owner of a small sloop, named the Sally Lunn, in which he offered to take a party along the North Carolina coast, as far down as they...

Hero in Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal South (Classic Reprint)
Hero in Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal South (Classic Reprint)

Author: William E. Barton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781330676554

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Excerpt from Hero in Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal South How much of this book is history and how much is fiction will be apparent to readers familiar with the history. To extend popular knowledge of the Civil War as it affected a large but almost unrecognized body of our people, this volume has been written. The form of fiction has been employed to permit a larger use of incident and personal experience, and to allow greater freedom of treatment, but the historical background is believed to be true to fact. I have thought well not to locate too definitely the home of my principal characters. The name and some of the characteristics of Roundstone Creek, in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, have been borrowed and removed to a valley some fifty miles remote. With this exception, the geography of the book is correct. I have had to allow my characters freedom of speech, even though they sometimes speak unwisely or too harshly. They lived in a day when men's passions ran high, and it would misrepresent them to tone down their utterances to the more temperate spirit of our time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Wild Huntsman
The Wild Huntsman

Author: Julius Wolff

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781331764663

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Excerpt from The Wild Huntsman: A Legend of the Hartz Hunter was long a blasting tradition to the poor who lived on the skirts of Windsor Forest. In the Ross of outer Scotland and the Hebrides, the simple herdsmen were often terrified by his hoarse-winded horn, the din of the wild race of deer and dogs, and the ghostly hoofs quick beating over the hollow, mist-wrapped hills. Everywhere in Germany the tale was told; from the bleak northern lowlands to the deepest te cesses of the Black Forest in the South, where he was a wandering and undying Jew, who de nied Christ a drink from a horse-trough, and bade him lap the water collected in a hoof print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Hunter and Trapper (Classic Reprint)
The Hunter and Trapper (Classic Reprint)

Author: Halsey Thrasher

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780267575411

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Excerpt from The Hunter and Trapper In giving this little work to the public, I do it with considerable delicacy, knowing my inability to write for others to read, as I have never studied these things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America
A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America

Author: Flack Flack

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-18

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9781331708490

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Excerpt from A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America: Being an Account of the Natural History of the Various Quadrupeds and Birds Which Are the Objects of Chase in Those Countries I have added an Appendix as a guide to the expenses of a trip, and to the haunts Where each kind of beast and bird may be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself, And, Extracts From the Diary of a Huntsman (Classic Reprint)
The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself, And, Extracts From the Diary of a Huntsman (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780656091829

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Excerpt from The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself, And, Extracts From the Diary of a Huntsman More than eight centuries have rolled by since the attention of that keen sportsman, William our Conqueror, was drawn to the excellent hunting to be enjoyed in the land watered by the Avon, the Stour, and the Test, which caused him to mark off the New Forest as a royal chase, and ensure its preservation by laws of merciless severity. Never, since that distant time, has Hampshire lost its sporting pre-eminence among the southern counties; in spite of changing fashions and altered tastes, it still remains a perfect microcosm of English field sports. Fresh developments, indeed, have only served to bring out new points of excellence in this favoured county, for it is here that the latest refinement of modern sport - angling for trout with the dry fly - had its origin and may be enjoyed in the greatest perfection. The Normans, perhaps, had no time or mind for mere games; war, and the mimicry of war, were their only pastimes, except the sport of kings. But with the establishment of civil peace and in the leisure afforded by growing wealth and security, Hampshire men applied themselves to excel in games of strength and skill. Hambledon disputes with Mitcham, in Surrey, the honour of having been the cradle of the premier British game, cricket; and the world admires the ease with which, in these latter days, the men Of Hampshire have applied themselves to golf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Persevere Prosper
Persevere Prosper

Author:

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780267675814

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Excerpt from Persevere Prosper: Or the Siberian Sable-Hunter Several great rivers cross this country, the chief of which are the Irtish and Obi, the Yenisei, and the Lena These are almost as large as the great rivers of America. They flow from south to north, and empty them selves into a boisterous sea called the Arctic Ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.