This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...that that run, at which it was a pride and a joy for ever to be present, of which the papers wrote "Tally-ho" leaders, couldn't have been such great things! for, look you, as the crow flies, it is only--and so on. We all know this kind of bore--the British sportsman's worst companion. The creature ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...that that run, at which it was a pride and a joy for ever to be present, of which the papers wrote "Tally-ho" leaders, couldn't have been such great things! for, look you, as the crow flies, it is only--and so on. We all know this kind of bore--the British sportsman's worst companion. The creature acquires a sort of pointer's nose for this kind of inconsistency. If there is a warp, a flaw, a kink, a weak thread in your spun yarn, he will detect it at once, and, with finger straight as the rudder of the dog we have compared him to when the scent is hottest, he will indicate remorselessly your blunder or your oversight. He makes it his business to count the number of grains in an ounce and a half of duck-shot; so that, if you venture in a story to kill more widgeon than there are pellets in the charge, he is ready with a crushing arithmetical rejoinder. If you hit a brace of snipe right and left, and knock over a quail with the other barrel, you may escape with even the applause of the genial listeners (who are not attending to you at all, but every man waiting for his own chance), but not from the eager personage who triumphantly demonstrates that you are either the enviable possessor of a threebarrelled gun, or the dexterous operator of a feat which Munchausen might have contemplated and shrunk from. How came first the taste for fiction into sporting anecdotes? Izaak Walton loved the marvellous dearly. The more startling the legend, the more eagerly did the father of angling swallow it. But he seldom or never ventured on personal records or experiences of an amazing character. He was a humble believer in Du Bartas, but he was chary of lugging on shore an astonishing fish upon his own hook. The old naturalists rather than the old...
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