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Excerpt from The Art of Wing Shooting: A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shot-Gun Illustrating, by Sketches and Easy Reading, How to Become an Expert Shot, a Complete Exposé of the Scientific Use of the Shot-Gun, Also Treating of the Habits and Resorts of Game Birds and Water Fowl Lispings, and yet, if left alone, he Will stagger under the weight Of your lightest gun, and vainly try to stretch his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books p...

Manulito, or, a strange friendship is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Excerpt from Manulito: Or, a Strange Friendship "Fate made me what I am - may make me nothing, But either that or nothing must I be, I will not live degraded." Byron. The summer days had passed, the frosts of October nights had touched with gilded fingers the trees and grass, the rich green of the summer-time was gone, and the autumnal season was changing to scarlet hues the leaves of the forest, and coating with yellowish brown the blades...

Excerpt from Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by Prominent Sportsmen, Descriptive of Hunting the Upland Birds of America, Exposing Their Flights, Habits, Resorts, and the Most Successful Manner of Pursuing Them With the Gun, And Treating Especially of the Scientific Metho The ¿attering reception with which Wild Fowl Shooting was received throughout the United States, and portions of the Old World, was the in...

Excerpt from Wild Fowl Shooting: Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild Fowl, Their Resorts, Habits, Flights and the Most Successful Method of Hunting Them, Treating of the Selection of Guns for Wild Fowl ShootingAn inherited love for field sports showed itself in early childhood, and I enjoyed nothing better than to wander through the blossoming fields, along the hill sides, or sitting at some gurgling brook, splashing my fe...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...