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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 95 CHAPTER II 'toujours Perdrix'?Form Good And Bad How well each one of us remembers his first partridge I well remember mine. It was not the bird I aimed at; I had been out many days without striking a single bird with even an outside shot. I am afraid I at last got to shoot vaguely at the covey like Mr. Tupman?though not like him with my eyes shut; and when this bird was finally retrieved?he was a strong runner? I felt more of shame than of pride. I learnt under old Hirst, the keeper at Hawarden Castle, my first season, in the days of the kindly and accomplished Sir Stephen Glynne, and, therefore, before his brother-in-law, the great Mr. Gladstone, succeeded to the property. Very kind to me they both were, and whatever great questions of State may have possessed Mr. Gladstone's time and brain at this period, for I confess I do not remember, he always had a genial word or two, and an enquiry how the sport fared when I came in at night. Old Hirstwas a very fine shot, one of the best I ever saw, and perfectly wrapped up in it. Nobody shot over the estate but him and his sons, and I verily believe that all he knew of Mr. Gladstone was that he had once been a shooter and had lost a finger through the accidental discharge of the second barrel while loading a muzzle-loader. He always promised my father that he would send me home if I fired a dangerous shot, and he kept his word. Well do 1 recollect the humiliated frame of mind in which I loitered home about 3 P.m., having killed nothing myself all day, and had my gun taken away from me for nearly shooting Hirst junior. Did I go straight in and confess ? No, I did not; I crept through the park, loafing and lying about out of sight under the great trees which Mr. Gladstone and his axe have since made so famous, and the incide...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217884921 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021788492X |
| Weight | 0.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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