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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: ... and provokingly plentiful to behold in the market-place at Granville, --when the last accounts we had of the success of a party (who had been out for a week) was that they had bagged "only a few woodcocks, three partridges, and a hare or two,"--that the following clever sketch appeared in the newspapers. An enthusiastic French marquis offered a friend whom he met in Paris a few days shooting, or, to use the favorite phrase, a "chasse magnifique." He accepted, and went the next day; the journey was seven hours by railway, but to the true sportsman this was nothing. The morning after his arrival he was attended by the marquiss keeper, who, in answer to the inquiries of the visitor, thus mapped out the days sport: --"Pour commencer, monsieur, nous chasserons dans les vignes de M. le Marquis, oil a cette saison nous trouverona certainement des grives thrushes." "Et apres?" says the visitor. "Eh Men apres, nous passerons une petite heure sur la grande plaine, oil, sans.doute, nous trouverons une masse dalouettes larks. En suite je montrerai a monsieur certaines poules deau moor-hens que je connais; fichtre nous les attraperons. II y a la-bas aussi, dans le marais, un petit lac ou, 1annee passee, jai vu un canard, mais un canard sauvage Nous le chercherons; peut-etre il y sera." "But have you no partridges?" "Des perdreaux I mais oui je le crois bien (il demande si nous avons des perdreaux ) il y en a, mais ils sont difficiles. Nous en avions quatre, mais, le mois passe, M. le Marquis en a tue un et serieusement blesse tin se K cond. La pauvre bete nest pas encore guerie. Cela ne nous laisse que deux. Nous les chasserons sans doute si monsieur le veut; mais que ferons-nous Fannee prochaine? Si monsieur veut bien achever cette...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151726032 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151726036 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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