British sport past and present . GROUSE SHOOTING could have done a detonator in the hands of the devil him-self ? . . But let us off to the Moor ! Piro ! Ponto ! Basta ! toyour paws, and OBronte, unfurl your tail to heaven. Pointers !ye are a noble trio. White, O Ponto ! art thou as the foamof the sea. Piro ! thou tan of all tans ! red art thou as thedun-deers hide, and fleet as he while thou rangest the mountainbrow, now hid in heather, and now re-appearing over the hawk, Basta !—for finest scented though be thy scarletnostrils, one bad trick alone hast thou ; and whenever thatgre
British sport past and present . GROUSE SHOOTING could have done a detonator in the hands of the devil him-self ? . . But let us off to the Moor ! Piro ! Ponto ! Basta ! toyour paws, and OBronte, unfurl your tail to heaven. Pointers !ye are a noble trio. White, O Ponto ! art thou as the foamof the sea. Piro ! thou tan of all tans ! red art thou as thedun-deers hide, and fleet as he while thou rangest the mountainbrow, now hid in heather, and now re-appearing over the hawk, Basta !—for finest scented though be thy scarletnostrils, one bad trick alone hast thou ; and whenever thatgrey wing glances from some pillar-stone in the wilderness,headlong goest thou, O lawless negro ! But behave thyselfto-day, Basta ! and let the kestrel unheeded sail or sun herselfon the cliff. As for thee, OBronte ! the sable dog with thestar-bright breast, keep thou like a serf at our heels, and whenour course lies over the fens and marshes, thou mayest sweeplike a hairy hurricane among the flappers, and haply, to-day,grip th
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