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" ... more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth. I was much pleased and interested with the sight. It has always... "
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta ... - Page 81
by Reginald Heber - 1856
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England.' — pp. 119, 120. ' June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it is...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England.' — pp. 119, 120. ' June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it is...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England.' — pp. 119, 120. • June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 8

1828 - 588 pages
...pleased, and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...reasonable treatment, be made the sources of abundant advantage to us. The simple Hindoo shews here a better taste and judgment than half the otter-hunting...
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Some Account of the Life of Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England.' ' June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it is now of a fertility...
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Biography of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta: Abridged for the Use ...

Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...shows here a better taste and judgment than half the otter hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England. ' June 28. — The river takes a remarkable twist,...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volume 1

1833 - 814 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England. — HEBER'S Journal^ • _ LONDON JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, 445, (WEST) STRAND. Sold !)>• all Booksellers...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1

1833 - 310 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight, It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...sources of abundant amusement and advantage to us. The simpfc Hindoo shows here a better taste and judgment than half the otter-hunting and badger-baiting...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 7

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 682 pages
...with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and prosecute to death, for no cause but the gratification of our...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England." (Bishop Heber.) [For information on the habits of the otter, wild in Britain, see p. 507, 508. 538....
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 7

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 pages
...with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and prosecute to death, for no cause but the gratification of our...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England." (Bishop Heber.) [For information on the habits of the otter, wild in Britain, see p. 507, 508. 538....
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