They remind me of young sportsmen who fire at the first feathers they see, and bring down a barnyard fowl.
They hunted down all the beasts they started, as good sportsmen should.
Then they bade the sportsmento the table, and they sat down, a goodly company enow, on a fair meadow.
The sportsmen brought skins and game enow with them to the camp.
Accordingly, at an early hour I mingled with the sportsmen and idlers who were thronging to the scene of action, and had not very long to wait before the party from the castle drove through the park gates.
The blue, or alpine hare, is, as all Scotch sportsmen know, a great nuisance in grouse shooting over dogs.
On Dalnawillan and Rumsdale moors, the number of grouse killed by sportsmenwere as follows:-- Dalnawillan.
Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.
I'm a quiet, peaceful sort of chappie who has lived all his life in London, and I can't stand the pace these swift sportsmen from the rural districts set.
A number of parrots and monkeys were screaming and chattering with content, and the sportsmen of the party were much exercised at hearing the pleasant double whistle of the quail sounding from various patches of long grass.
Doctor Spraggs Was trotting on his way, A field ofsportsmen came in view, And made his courser neigh.
The Sportsmen trespass on an Enclosure--Grubb gets on a paling and runs a risk of being impaled.
The coachman mounted and drove off; the sportsmen chatting and laughing as they passed through 'merry Islington.
And leaping the hedge he took the 'pork' in his arms, while the sportsmenwho had used their arms so destructively now took to their legs for security.
Having performed this preliminary act, the sportsmencrouched in a dry ditch and crawled stealthily along in order to approach the tempting covey as near as possible.
But the greatest prize our sportsmen shot was a specimen of a small female kangaroo, of a new kind.
Our sportsmen had been actively and successfully employed during our absence, having shot a great number of quail; they had seen two emus, and Messrs.
They are singularly hospitable, for free-handed sportsmen find the island a happy hunting-ground, and the people expect and give kindness.
Probably more snipe have been killed by sportsmenthan any other game bird.
It does not decoy well and is no longer considered a game bird, but it has been popular with sportsmen for its gamy qualities and for the excellence of its flesh.
They have always been popular with sportsmen and have been slaughtered unmercifully.
I am continually tormented here by noble sportsmen going by my window in full fig.
The Sportsmen they rid at a desperate rate, As if they had run for a Thousand pound plate, No hedges could turn them, nor wall could them set, For the choicest of Sportsmen in England were met.
The Sportsmen came in every one at the last, The hounds they run briskly not one that was cast, Let's Ring Reynard's farewell with a horn that sounds clear You've not heard such an hollow this hundred year.
It is notorious that tired sportsmen are about the dullest dogs on earth; so Henrietta felt that she would not lose much when her husband told her she had better go to rest early, as they must be up betimes next morning.
Only the most determined sportsmen care about tackling a bear in the open, for even when mortally wounded the beast is quite capable of taking his revenge.
On deck we found four young sportsmenin knickerbockers and ulsters, their backs turned upon the cathedral, firing at sea-gulls and missing them very successfully.
We want it to be understood that in these vast tracts of deer forest none but sportsmen and game-keepers are allowed to go.
The sportsmen fell prone upon the deck, and the intervals between their now languid shots were long.
And all the time the brave sportsmen kept showing us what particularly bad shots they were.
We were strangers, it was evident; but we were not sportsmen or moneyed tourists.
When we left the steamer the four sportsmen were getting off with their baggage, of which there was no small quantity.
The sportsmenwere the first to alight, and, with guns over their shoulders, they disappeared quickly up the hill-side.
Our sportsmen do not confine themselves to the gentle art of angling--they shoot also; and some of them even acquire a sort of celebrity for the precision of their aim.
During the months of February and March, special low terms can probably be obtained in the hotels, as they are anxious to prolong their season, and will do anything they can afford to induce British sportsmen to come out then.
No country in the world lays itself out more for the satisfaction of its visitors, and no holiday can beat a Winter holiday among the Alps when the conditions are favourable and the sportsmen determined to enjoy themselves.
Luckily for Ski runners, even a few inches of wet snow will provide practice, so that they suffer less than other Winter sportsmen when the weather is unfavourable.
Sportsmen like you don't know the small tricks and shabbiness we others are forced to use.
They say they aresportsmen and the fellow in the cloak claims to be well known.
With every change sportsmen of the old school have prophesied the total ruin of fox-hunting.
Is going down wind, usually done by knowing sportsmen to catch the cry of the hounds.
When wild deer became scarce, the attention of sportsmen was probably turned to the sporting qualities of the fox by the accident of harriers getting upon the scent of some wanderer in the clicketing season, and being led a straight long run.
It is an expedient found needful where the field is large, and unruly, and impatient, oftener than goodsportsmen approve.
For this reason young sportsmen should commence their studies with harriers, where the runs are usually circling and a good deal of hunting is done slowly.
Yonder hangs a lordly deer; wild-fowl they have in prolusion; and in a short time they will, doubtless, enjoy their al fresco dinner as only sportsmen can.
Gearge," the farmer's man, went with them every day to help to carry the rabbits our sportsmen killed.
His hope is that some of the sportsmen who read these pages may, in spite of the difficulties which they will have to encounter, resolve to give this old and honourable sport a trial.
The large fish are secured by spearing, amid much excitement, the eager sportsmen often overbalancing themselves and falling headlong into the water to the great amusement of the more lucky ones.
I doubt if the Hyde Park sportsmen will see anything very amusing in this story.
Then, for the last time, gulls were shot on the river between the bridges, and this pastime put a stop to by the police magistrates, who fined the sportsmen for the offence of discharging firearms to the public danger.
Doubtless they had been shot by the sportsmen who still infest the waste lands and marshes on that side of the metropolis.
It attracted a good deal of attention, and all the Hackney Marsh sportsmen who possessed guns were fired with the desire to shoot it.
Mr. Hazen became a guide for sportsmen who came to the Waterstone and Brandon Houses for their vacations, to fish and hunt, and without educational or financial advantages, took on the tastes and manners of associates who had them.
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