. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . rists, were condemnedwithout a dissenting voice; Hugh Miller, on the Old RedSandstone, casually left in the bottom of a boat by an adven-turous geologist, was passed with many a crooning wail andshake of the head; while Chambers Information for thePeople was dangerous, ferra dangerous, and condemned atone glance. And when they had covered the poor old worn-out animal,physicked and bled to death through their own ignorance, they 220
. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . rists, were condemnedwithout a dissenting voice; Hugh Miller, on the Old RedSandstone, casually left in the bottom of a boat by an adven-turous geologist, was passed with many a crooning wail andshake of the head; while Chambers Information for thePeople was dangerous, ferra dangerous, and condemned atone glance. And when they had covered the poor old worn-out animal,physicked and bled to death through their own ignorance, they 220 Killed by a Book. emptied the shingle into the grave, and covered up all the know-ledge which in a casual way—as the wild seed of the mountainflowers are taken from place to place by their adhering to thewings of the ever busy bee—had come to Kerra. And if any stranger northwards next week after the grouse,or the fine silver-skinned trout which swim the lochs of Kerra-should, as he examines the stone on the beach with theepitaph Here lies Norman Morrisons Horse,ask any of the natives what the old horse died of, they will tellyou He was Killed by a 221
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