see him, leather leggings, and a cloth helmet of his own devising,
John, who had a passion for the collection of birds almost equal to
his barrels, and the smell of the oil sent a delicious tremor darting
the silence rose a far-off clamour; a cock pheasant.html">pheasant, skimming low,
spinney, curled to the right, and was lost in undergrowth. Some
against trees began; then with a fitful rushing noise a pheasant came
in mid-air, jerked forward, and fell headlong into the grass sods
triumph played on George's lips. He was feeling the joy of life.
During his covert shoots the Squire had the habit of recording his
as missed, or shot.html">shot.html">shot birds behind the waist, or placed lead in them to
at a time, causing the animal to cry like a tortured child, which
creatures that they had not shot, or peopled the next beat with
eye," or shot too many beaters in the legs. Against this evidence,
such as the title.html">title of Winlow's father; Sir James Malden's coverts,
the financial world; General Pendyce's relationship to himself; and
could put no marks. The fellow destroyed everything that came within
Foxleigh had neither title, coverts, position, nor cloth! And the
all a good day's sport, for his heart was kind.
The sun had fallen well behind the homewood when the guns stood
the hollow, where late threads of crimson clung in the brown network
breeze. Sound there was none, only that faint stir--the far, far
country evening. High above the wood some startled pigeons were
down the side of the covert and laid a burnish on the turned leaves
.
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