. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . at least, and as many keepers, who have beenall their lives shooting Capers and who never yet saw one^offer the slightest resistance. Seven or eight years ago, a very distinguished andwell-knovn Member of Parliament (who, if he ever readsthis, will probably get a bill passed excluding all naturalistsand other irresponsible persons from voting) was stayingwith us, and, being most anxious to slay a cock Caper, wasaccordingly put in the best plac
. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . at least, and as many keepers, who have beenall their lives shooting Capers and who never yet saw one^offer the slightest resistance. Seven or eight years ago, a very distinguished andwell-knovn Member of Parliament (who, if he ever readsthis, will probably get a bill passed excluding all naturalistsand other irresponsible persons from voting) was stayingwith us, and, being most anxious to slay a cock Caper, wasaccordingly put in the best places in the drives to try and 26 GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES effect this. After several shots lie succeeded in winoino-an old fellow, and from the account he gave us of theunprovoked assault the dastardly bird had made on hisperson when he went to pick it up, we began to thankProvidence for having been pleased to spare for thebenefit of his country one of the most brilliant ornamentsthis ao-e has seen. Thisnaturally excited onescuriosity to see the dar-ing scoundrel, and afteradvancing to the spotwhere the bird was lastseen, not without a con-. DAWN (Capercaillie Cocks tigliting). siderable amount of caution, he was discovered concealedin a drain in the wood, from which he was extracted, andattempts were made to again excite his bellicose disposition,but, alas ! without success. Perhaps the prickings of hisconscience had been too much, and remorse had seizedupon him for his recent conduct, and he had given wayto despair. Still it is hardly fair to make statementswithout thoroughly sifting both sides of the question. CXVFAlCAilAAl-: 27 and, like ^Faik Twains character, who affirmed that noone could l)e positive in his assertion tliat a buffalo wasunable to cliinl) a tree, simply because no one liad everseen one of those animals try t(j do so, so is it quitepossible that these birds may at times attempt to defendthemselves. I know another gentleman—an excellentnaturalist—w
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