. 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 . ke the hunting song that a sportsman sings So merry can make me feel,As the coveys whirring wings, And the birr of the merry reel. The gun from the Commodore The yachtsman likes full well;Can the racing man like more Than the sound of the saddling bellBut the sweetest bell that rings Of chimes the merriest peal,Is naught to the whirring wings And the birr of the merry reel. There is no dreaming now, it is man and tackle aga
. 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 . ke the hunting song that a sportsman sings So merry can make me feel,As the coveys whirring wings, And the birr of the merry reel. The gun from the Commodore The yachtsman likes full well;Can the racing man like more Than the sound of the saddling bellBut the sweetest bell that rings Of chimes the merriest peal,Is naught to the whirring wings And the birr of the merry reel. There is no dreaming now, it is man and tackle against fishand stream for a thousand. In vain he sulks, in vain he dashesup stream Avith fresh speed ; the colt is broken as much by hisown struggles as by the work of the breaker, and our fish submitsin due time to be led to that shelving bank like a child. Thegaff well handled by a stout fellow in tweed does its work, andon the grass green bank, mid the musky odour arising from thestooks of oats, we drink success from the flask-lid, pluck aluscious brambleberry from the bush alongside to change thetaste, and tired but happy bend our steps for home, while the. Salmon-Fishing on Loch Tay. 279 sun sinks down red in the western horizon and the youngplough lad hurries past us to the field to get one more cart ofoats for that stack in the homestead on your left, where the busyfarmer is tapering off the head into conical form with all the artthat the bucolic mind is capable of A good afternoon, theriver in good condition, a good fish home with us, a good dinnerwaiting, a smoke, and a sound sleep certain, and what would asportsman want more ^
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