Yoicks! : heads and tales, tips and turns over (with a spill or two thrown in) . anding officer of a volunteer firingparty. Alphonse remarked to his friend Gustave that evcnin;., Qui, mon ami, zemilitaire only could compel a De Pompon to retire ; but for zat, ah! I should havestopped and got a good bags! A POPULAR writer, in an article on grouse shooting, remarks upon those Gotlisand Vandals who contrive places of concealment for themselves where the moor-land marches with arable upland, and take pot-shots at the grouse as they settleupon the stooks of the late outstanding oat crop. A man will
Yoicks! : heads and tales, tips and turns over (with a spill or two thrown in) . anding officer of a volunteer firingparty. Alphonse remarked to his friend Gustave that evcnin;., Qui, mon ami, zemilitaire only could compel a De Pompon to retire ; but for zat, ah! I should havestopped and got a good bags! A POPULAR writer, in an article on grouse shooting, remarks upon those Gotlisand Vandals who contrive places of concealment for themselves where the moor-land marches with arable upland, and take pot-shots at the grouse as they settleupon the stooks of the late outstanding oat crop. A man will do a good dealfor a bag, says he ; but battue shooting, contemptible as is that abnormaldevelopment of the human lust for slaughter, is venial compared with thismiserable travestie of a noble sport. For my own part, I would sooner shootpark deer from a rest; nay, I would even pepper pigeons at Hurlingham! The Other Jones, who had been down to the Welsh Harp with a similar aimin view, left early, calling it brutal and disgusting work. Strictly .speaking hehad hit nothing. 101. J /m^ The season is over, it is true ; but Snickler always bad a bad reputation as asuspected poacher. Was he really asleep ? ?^-A^X^ ^-<
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