I'd rather talk five minutes to a pretty woman than eat stuffed pheasants the year around, and the stuffed pheasant is about all Bleiberg can boast of.
The pheasants were plump, there were boars, gray wolves, and not infrequently Monsieur Fourpaws of the shaggy coat wandered across from the Carpathians.
Then, when the door was shut, he went through a pantomimic expression of bringing down innumerable pheasants from every corner of the ceiling--with an occasional aim at the floor, where an imaginary hare was scurrying by.
The fusillade lasted for about eight or ten minutes; and then it was discovered that though certainly two or three hundred pheasants had got up at this corner, only twenty-two and a half brace were killed--to five guns.
All I know is he is a capital shot, and brings down his pheasants in good style!
Sometimes it is pheasants and partridges, that he has shot himself on ducal acres.
Next a lot of hen-pheasants come pattering along, crouching as they run with outstretched neck.
And then to insure there being a proper quantity of pheasants in the required places is no easy work.
The man said he did not think it was any use, as no pheasants were ever there; however, as his master wished it, it should be done, and he sent off some men to put down the nets very carefully.
When he tells us, for example, that he does not care for honors, that he prefers his study to the halls of princes, and that a turnip in his own house tastes better than the pheasants of a ducal table, we believe him.
Such a vehicle, driven by one man, will, moreover, often excite no suspicion though it may be filled with pheasants under sacks and hay.
He shakes his head if you hint that perhaps it would save trouble to purchase the pheasants ready for shooting from the dealers who now make a business of supplying them for the battue.
And for a man of education to descend to trapping vermin, filling cartridges, and feeding pheasants all his life would be a palpable absurdity with Australia open to him and the virgin soil of Central Africa eager for tillage.
A great deal of poaching used to be accomplished by nets, into which both partridges and pheasants were driven.
But of recent years, since pheasants especially have become so costly a luxury to keep, the preserves and roosting-places have been more effectually watched, and this plan has become more difficult to put in practice.
The larger the number of young broods of pheasants early in the year the better for the dishonest keeper, who has more chances of increasing his own profit, both directly and indirectly.
The use of this gun was clearly to shoot pheasants at roost.
On the other side, where the wood comes up, if you watch quietly, the pheasants step in lordly pride out into the grass; so that there is no place without its especial class of life.
When the acorns are ripe and the pheasants wander great distances from the plantations along the hedgerows is his best time for shooting; no keepers at that period can protect them.
Or perhaps it is the master of a pack of hounds against whom insinuations are directed: cubs are not destroyed sufficiently, and the pheasants are eaten daily.
The pheasants are sometimes accustomed to leave the wood in a certain direction chosen as specially favourable for the sport--some copses at a little distance are used as feeding places, so that the birds naturally work that way.
Another time they have prevented straying pheasants from returning to the covers by intercepting their retreat; and a score of similar tricks.
It is the young or weakly partridges and pheasants that fall to the jay and magpie.
Many gentlemen again keep their pheasants till nearly Christmas: October goes by frequently without a bird being brought down in some preserves.
I did not rear up pheasants and hares merely to eat them or that others might eat them.
He wasn't the man who fetches deadpheasants in the donkey-cart, was he?
Millions of pheasantsare sold to be eaten every year at a much smaller price than they cost to breed.
So we went back into the wood, where the pheasants were running to and fro in a great state of mind.
Rex went on teasingly: "I assure you it was embarrassing, when the pheasants were bursting cover, to be under the necessity of inquiring at the nearest house if those were really pheasants or only Chinese hens.
No one shall take or kill any pheasants with nets or devices at nighttime because such have become scarce.
No one may take pheasants or partridges by net snares or other devices from his own warren [breeding ground], upon the freehold of any other person, or forfeit 200s.
Old pheasants may be known by the length and sharpness of their spurs; in young ones they are short and blunt.
He had not seen the humour then of paying the man who was stealing his uncle's pheasants--the pheasants that would some day be his.
The pheasantsled us to a fitting close of the day in the shape of pheasants and dumplings, prepared by the writer and pronounced by Nichols (who, by the way, is an epicure) to be simply par excellence.
The day was uneventful, if we omit mention of the many hornets' nests we passed through and the four pheasants which fell before the unerring aim of Nichol's rifle.
The watchmen who had slept here pointed out a tree where about twenty argus pheasants had roosted.
As we broke camp two argus pheasants flew over the utan through the mist which the sun was trying to disperse.
Chiltern has taken such a dislike to shooting-men, that he won't shoot pheasants himself.
It is the last flight, and, shortly afterwards, the loud harsh trumpeting ofpheasants is heard in all the woods and coverts around, as they prepare to fly up into their own roosting trees.
As will have been gathered, these six pheasants that came and fed together at the stack were all males, and this has been my usual experience.
Subdued sounds of birds came from the glades below, and far distant, from the scrub at the edge of the woods, pheasants were crowing.
Pheasants crowed all round us, and took wing when we approached too close.
It was no uncommon occurrence for half a dozen pheasants to rise from the cover by the roadside, startled at our approach, and drop within easy range.
In the section we had just been in, pheasantswere most abundant.
There are plenty of rabbits about, and they are the food foxes like best; poultry and pheasants are pursued and killed out of pure love of mischief.
It is interesting to rear a few pheasants annually.
As we walk along the drive which leads through the woods to the Roman villa, any amount of rabbits andpheasants are to be seen.
They say that I am dying, Perhaps that's why it all comes back again: Autumn in Oregon andpheasants flying -- Song.
Pheasants roasted in the depths of the larch-wood, and flavored with the salt of secrecy, were appetizing indeed.
Pheasants used often to stray over from Lord Powerscourt's demesne, which was separated from our ground by a much-broken fence.
The pheasants can't be yours; they're common property.
Strange as it may appear to any reasoning mind, the man really believed he had a natural right to prevent people from crossing that strip of wood where his pheasants were sitting.
He says they eat good all times of the year,' Una jerked her head at some stately pheasants going down to the brook for a drink.
Worse than this: incredible as it may sound, there are several well-authenticated cases of nightingales having been destroyed by keepers because their singing kept the pheasants awake at night!
For days after a battue hares may be seen with broken backs, dragging their hind-quarters after them among the bushes, and pheasants may be seen running about with broken wings trailing the ground.
Birds are thrown, in many cases, from high structures, or go flying over trees, and move in a mode similar to that of pheasants or driven grouse or partridges.
We have all read how, after some aristocratic “shoot,” a number ofpheasants or other palatable game were presented to the local hospital.
He has trebled the number of his gamekeepers, he has put land out of cultivation, he has increased enormously the number of pheasants which have been turned on to the land.
Thus it is easy to understand what sums of money find their way into farmers’ and tradesmen’s pockets for the purchase of food alone, for hundreds of thousands of pheasants all over the kingdom have to be fed for months every year.
Here is one advertising shooting rights for estates where last year 5,000 pheasants were shot.
The Romans were very partial to it, and many epicureans, possessing strange tastes, found means to ruin themselves by eating pheasants and flamingoes.
Maurice, in spite of the pheasants having been plentiful and the sport satisfactory, had been in a decidedly bad temper all the afternoon in consequence.
Next came a box of cigars, which again were shortly followed by two brace of pheasants purporting to be of Herbert's own shooting, but which, as a matter of fact, he had purchased in Vigo Street.
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