SUNG BY MR. WILSON, IN AUBER’S OPERA OF LESTOQ, ARRANGED BY T. COOKE. Geo. W. Hewitt & Co. No. 184 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia.
Oh gentle love, thy spirit o’er us beaming,
Doth thro’ the soul its tenderness diffuse, E’en as the glow, from morning’s sun light streaming, Smiles o’er the earth, and tempereth its hues Oh! gentle love, thy spirit o’er us beaming,
Doth thro’ the soul its tenderness diffuse, A magic all have felt and feel, how e’er they struggle to conceal A magic all have felt and feel, how e’er they struggle to conceal, Or as the dew upon the flowrets sleeping, Over the leaves a distillation rains, Which tho’ the day dissolve its pearly weeping, Still in their heart reviving them remains.
Unless there be continual rain, or it be the depth of winter, birds will visit their basking place some time in the course of the day, whether the sun shine or not. The basking place is generally, but not invariably, on the sunny side of the hedge. Birds may be most easily approached in fine weather. All kinds of birds lie better in small enclosures than in large ones, that is, when the cover in each is alike. It need scarcely be added, that the more bushy the brambles, or the higher the grass the more closely will lie the game.
A person who knows how to walk up to a bird will obtain more shots than one who does not, especially in windy weather. Birds will not only allow the shooter to approach nearer to them when he faces the wind, but they present on rising, a fairer mark.
When the legs of a bird fired at fall, it is almost a certain proof that it is struck in a vital part. A bird so struck should be narrowly watched, when, in most instances, it will be seen, after flying about a hundred yards if a grouse, or fifty yards if a partridge, to tower or spire in the air, and fall down dead. When only one leg falls, the bird should be watched, but in the latter case, it generally happens that the leg or thigh only has been struck. Any bird that flinches, on being fired at, or whose feathers are in the least disordered, should be marked down, and followed. Grouse more frequently fly away wounded than partridges. Grouse are often recovered several hundred yards from the gun.
Until November or December, young grouse, black-game, partridges, and pheasants, may be distinguished from old ones by the lower beak not being strong enough to bear the weight of their bodies. The lower beak of an old partridge is strong enough to sustain the weight of a brace of birds; but a young bird cannot be raised by the lower beak without the lower beak bending under the weight.