Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... bird ! nothing but a labourer dragging a plough after him . " I say ! " cried the cit , " you have not seen a part- ridge fall this way , have you ? " " Not the very smallest one , sir . " " It is very odd , for I certainly saw the ...
... bird ! nothing but a labourer dragging a plough after him . " I say ! " cried the cit , " you have not seen a part- ridge fall this way , have you ? " " Not the very smallest one , sir . " " It is very odd , for I certainly saw the ...
Էջ 38
... birds should be shy , my dear Sammy , And the devil a one be brought down , I've secured a fine brace for my mammy From our neighbour , the poulterer Brown . Some maintained a reputation as great " shots " at considerable expense to ...
... birds should be shy , my dear Sammy , And the devil a one be brought down , I've secured a fine brace for my mammy From our neighbour , the poulterer Brown . Some maintained a reputation as great " shots " at considerable expense to ...
Էջ 39
... birds , and such gunners endangered people's lives , being brutally careless , as a rule . For instance , three men shooting larks in Battersea Fields followed the birds so near to a house that , on firing , one of them shot a little ...
... birds , and such gunners endangered people's lives , being brutally careless , as a rule . For instance , three men shooting larks in Battersea Fields followed the birds so near to a house that , on firing , one of them shot a little ...
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... birds still occa- sionally bred . The sedgy bottoms of this common were in winter then well frequented by snipe , and one cockney - a sedulous pounder after the long - bills— generally obtained about a hundred couple in the course of a ...
... birds still occa- sionally bred . The sedgy bottoms of this common were in winter then well frequented by snipe , and one cockney - a sedulous pounder after the long - bills— generally obtained about a hundred couple in the course of a ...
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... bird was wounded ! Double - barrelled guns were also considered highly dangerous by many sportsmen . In 1818 , on the occasion of an accident to the Rev. C. Colton , whose double - barrel had burst with disastrous results , a great ...
... bird was wounded ! Double - barrelled guns were also considered highly dangerous by many sportsmen . In 1818 , on the occasion of an accident to the Rev. C. Colton , whose double - barrel had burst with disastrous results , a great ...
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Էջ 77 - Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Yet ev'n these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train, and golden coach.
Էջ 18 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Էջ 148 - She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was seldom known to praise or commend; But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections.
Էջ 143 - He told me, he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people. He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow, but that he ' believed his nonsense suited theirs...