For a short time it was respected, but the gunners who depended upon waterfowl shooting for a great part of their living, considered it such an invasion of their rights that they defied it; at first shooting with masks, at the same time threatening to... The Birds of Long Island - Стр. 295авторы: Jacob Post Giraud - 1844 - Страниц: 397Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Peter Hawker - 1846 - Страниц: 514
...prohibiting batteries. For a short time it was respected, but the gunners who depend upon water-fowl shooting for a great part of their living, considered...that of firing, from boats, while sailing on their feeding-grounds. After having been shot at in this way, I have seen them rise high in the air, and... | |
| Henry Coleman Folkard - 1864 - Страниц: 476
...prohibiting the use of batteries. For a short time it was respected, but the gunners who depend on water-fowl shooting for a great part of their living considered...became a dead letter, and has since been repealed." — Field Sports in the United States ; by Frank Forester : 1848. Such are the proceedings connected... | |
| 1911 - Страниц: 626
...State, prohibiting the use of batteries. For a short time it was respected — but the gunners . . . defied it; at first shooting with masks, at the same...became a dead letter, and has since been repealed." [Laws 1840, chap. 77.] (Giraud, Birds of Long Island, p. 295, 1844.) Virginia. — Law prohibiting... | |
| 1911 - Страниц: 392
...State, prohibiting the use of batteries. For a short time it was respected — but the gunners . . . defied it; at first shooting with masks, at the same...became a dead letter, and has since been repealed." [Laws 1840, chap. 77.] (Giraud, Birds of Long Island, p. 295, 1844.) Virginia. — Law prohibiting... | |
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