 | Bird-catching - 1823 - 104 pages
...bold as to come and rub their bills against them. When the fowler sees this, he hollows one of the gourds, large enough to put his head in, and, making holes to see and breathe through, puts it on. He then goes slowly into the water; keeping his body under, and... | |
 | 1851
...fowler could wish, he then prepares to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows ••HI one of these gourds large enough to put his head in ; and, making...imperceptibly towards the fowls, who suspect no danger. At hut, however, he fairly gets in among them ; while they, having been long used to see gourds, take... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 pages
...the fowler could wish, he then prepares to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows out one of these gourds large enough to put his head in ; and making...gourd above the surface ; and in that manner moves imJerceptibly towards the fowls, who suspect no danger. At last, however, he fairly gets in among them... | |
 | 1857 - 504 pages
...the fowler could wish, he then begins to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows out one of these gourds large enough to put his head in, and, making...head. Thus accoutred, he wades slowly into the water, keeps his body under, and nothing but his head in the gourd above the surface, and in that manner moves... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...the fowler could wish, he then prepares to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows out one of these gourds large enough to put his head in ; and, making...he claps it on his head. Thus accoutred, he wades softly into the water, keeping his body under, and nothing but his head in the gourd above the surface,... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...fowler could wish, he then prepares to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows out one of those gourde large enough to put his head in ; and, making holes...he claps it on his head. Thus accoutred, he wades softly into the water, keeping his body under, and nothing but his head in the gourd above the surface,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1857 - 486 pages
...the fowler could wish, he then begins to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows out one of these gourds large enough to put his head in, and, making...head. Thus accoutred, he wades slowly into the water, keeps his body under, and nothing but his head in the gourd above the surface, and in that manner moves... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 pages
...the fowler could wish, he then prepares to deceive them in good earnest. He hollows out one of these gourds large enough to put his head in ; and, making...he claps it on his head. Thus accoutred, he wades softly into the water, keeping his body under, and nothing but his head in the gourd above the surface,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 360 pages
...them. He puts his head into one of these hollow gourds, and, making holes to breathe and see through, he wades slowly into the water, keeping his body under, and nothing but his head, gourd-accoutred, above its surface. He thus gets in among the wild-fowl, while they, long used to see... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1860 - 392 pages
...the fowler could wish, he then prepares to deceive them in good earnest. He hallows out one of these gourds large enough to put his head in: and making holes to see and breathe through, he claps it on his head. Thus accoutred, he wades slowly into the water, keeping... | |
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He hollows out one of those gourds large enough to put his head in; and making holes to breathe and see through, he claps it on his head. Thus accoutred, he wades slowly into the water, keeping his body under, and nothing but his head in the gourd above... 
