He must have his eyes everywhere and his hands following his eyes. Specially must he watch for the moment when any of his flock is gorged, — a fact generally made known by the bird itself, which then swims about in a foolish, helpless way, with its... In Beautiful Japan: A Story of Bamboo Lands - Página 235por Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1895 - 381 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1891 - 520 páginas
...jolliest way, diving and ducking with wonderful swiftness as the astonished fish come flocking towards the blaze of light. The master is now the busiest...caught in winter with bird-lime on the coasts of the neighbouring Owari Gulf, at their first emigration southward from the summer haunts of the species... | |
| Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1891 - 592 páginas
...everywhere and his hands following his eyes. Specially must he watch for the moment when any of his flobk is gorged — a fact generally made known by the bird...caught in winter with bird-lime on the coasts of the neighbouring Owari Gulf, at their first emigration southward from the summer haunts of the species... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - 1894 - 464 páginas
...jolliest way, diving and ducking with wonderful swiftness as the astonished fish come flocking towards the blaze of light. The master is now the busiest...moment the whole team is again perfectly in hand. - The cormorants are caught young, and very carefully educated. They become almost as humanly intelligent... | |
| Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1902 - 566 páginas
...jolliest way, diving and ducking with wonderful swiftness as the astonished fish come flocking towards the blaze of light. The master is now the busiest...caught in winter with bird-lime on the coasts of the neighbouring Owari Gulf, at their first emigration southward from the summer haunts of the species... | |
| Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1902 - 566 páginas
...following his eyes. Specially must he watch for the moment when any of his flock is gorged, — a faet generally made known by the bird itself, which then...again perfectly in hand. " As for the cormorants, they arc trained when quite young, being caught in winter with bird-lime on the coasts of the neighbouring... | |
| Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1908 - 574 páginas
...and swollen neck * We believe that these rings are generally not of metal, but of bone or whalebone. erect. Thereupon the master, shortening in on that...caught in winter with bird-lime on the coasts of the neighbouring Owari Gulf, at their first emigration southward from the summer haunts of the species... | |
| Basil Hall Chamberlain - 1905 - 604 páginas
...and swollen neck * We bel ieve that these rings are generally not of metal, but of bone or whalebone. erect. Thereupon the master, shortening in on that...caught in winter with bird-lime on the coasts of the neighbouring Owari Gulf, at their first emigration southward from the summer haunts of the species... | |
| Japan. Teikoku Tetsudōchō - 1914 - 578 páginas
...jolliest way, diving and ducking with wonderful swiftness, as the astonished fish come flocking towards the blaze of light. The master is now the busiest...moment the whole team is again perfectly in hand." (Palmer's "Letters from the Land of the Rising Sun "J. One bird generally captures in one excursion... | |
| 1914 - 1244 páginas
...come flocking toward the blaze of light. The master is now the busiest of men. He must handle his 12 strings so deftly that, let the birds dash hither...moment the whole team is again perfectly in hand. All this while we have been drifting down, with the boats about us, to the lower end of the course,... | |
| Thomas Philip Terry - 1927 - 1272 páginas
...bill open with his left hand, which still holds the rest of the lines, squeezes out the fish with bis right, and starts the creature off on a fresh foray,...moment the whole team is again perfectly in hand. All this while we have been drifting down, with the boats about us, to the lower end of the course,... | |
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