. Sport . ds have had good sport, pays a well-placed compliment or two to those whom he hasespecially observed tearing them down, as he says,out of the skies. The keepers and beaters collectthe slain, and they all hurry on to the next not, reader! I will not repeat the Ex uno disce omnes by no meansapplies to shooting—for it has many varieties—space,if not humanity, forbids my following the partyfurther. Enough to say that, as was inevitable withfine weather, plenty of game, good management, andfirst-class guns, the head keeper at the end of theday, with a face radian
. Sport . ds have had good sport, pays a well-placed compliment or two to those whom he hasespecially observed tearing them down, as he says,out of the skies. The keepers and beaters collectthe slain, and they all hurry on to the next not, reader! I will not repeat the Ex uno disce omnes by no meansapplies to shooting—for it has many varieties—space,if not humanity, forbids my following the partyfurther. Enough to say that, as was inevitable withfine weather, plenty of game, good management, andfirst-class guns, the head keeper at the end of theday, with a face radiant with satisfaction, hands acard to the host, who enumerates large totals to his COVERT-SHOOTING. 145 gratified guests. The result is that the keeper ispleased ; his birds, so long carefully tended, have been clean killed ; nothing is so mortifying to him as tosee them missed or wounded. Shoot, sir, shoot! said a keeper once to me who was generally known,from the character of his language, as the Blas-. A FEATHERED LUMP. phemer, when I was walking with the beaters in acovert and sparing the pheasants that went told him that I left them for the guns outside. But they cant hit em ! he cried in agony. Over,forward ! There—there again ! look at that! heyelled, with a numerous escort of unnameable ex-pletives as four barrels were again discharged outside L 146 SPORT. without result, whats the use of driving pheasantsto the like of them ? them being two gentlemenof ancient family and of social distinction in the
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