Lesage, in his Gil Blas, terms this “émoucher la mer avec un éventail de vingt pieds.
Moucher la chandelle, to give oneself up to solitary practices; to act according to the principles of Malthus with a view of not begetting children.
However lucky the moucher may be among pheasants, partridge, or grouse, rabbits are and must be the chief product of his nights.
Another moucher I knew, but with whom I would have nothing to do, was an instance of one who told poaching secrets to village gossips.
This substance is much used in mills on the banks of trout-streams, and probably more fish are "poached" by this kind of pollution in a month than the most inveterate moucher will kill in a year.
But the moucher passes by and looks for quaking grass, bunches of which have a ready sale.
Some of the drier part of the soil the moucher takes to sell for use in gardens and flower-pots as peat.
By-and-by the golden wheat calls for an army of workers; but the moucher passes on and gathers groundsel.
These the moucher gathers by stealth; he speedily fills a sack, and goes off with it to the nearest town.
The moucher sells the nests and eggs of small birds to townsfolk who cannot themselves wander among the fields, but who love to see something that reminds them of the green meadows.
The moucher moves uneasily in his sleep; instinctively he rolls or crawls towards the warmth, and presently lies extended on the top of the kiln.
In going to and fro the fields the moucher searches the banks and digs out primrose 'mars,' and ferns with the root attached, which he hawks from door to door in the town.
The moucher sometimes sleeps on the heaps of disused tan in a tanyard; tanyards are generally on the banks of small rivers.
Even these the moucher sometimes captures; for there is nothing so strange but that some one selects it for a pet.
The moucher now carries a bill-hook, and as he shambles along the road keeps a sharp look-out for briars.
The moucher searches for small shell snails, of which quantities are sold as food for cage birds, and cuts small 'turfs' a few inches square from the green by the roadside.
I do not know what has brought him to Johnstown, nor why Moucherwas there, nor Steve Watts.
Moucher stepped into it, stumbling in the darkness and trembling all over.
Hiakatoo lurched past us and out into the hallway; Hare and Moucher and Watts took smiling leave of Sir John; the ladies gave them all a courteous farewell.
I heaped a wooden platter and Godfrey squatted by Captain Moucher to feed him; but the prisoner refused food and sat with head hanging and the shivers shaking him with coward's ague.
But the moucher obtains his game in a quieter way.
Away from the preserves time is no object, and so the moucher who works systematically, and is content with a brace of birds at a time, usually gets the most in the end, with least chance of capture.
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