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After that the Chieftain dragged what was left of that wild cat out of the bushes, where he had tried to jamb and crawl and burrow himself, out into the open well into the open so that the eagles could look all round, which they like to do, being birds of high degree also vermin, or counted as such by gamekeepers of low degree.
Our two natives carried each his pack, but its weight was inconsiderable, most of their provisions being in the knapsacks of the soldiers and gamekeepers. We expected to have derived from them much information relating to the country, as no one doubted that they were acquainted with every part of it between the sea coast and the river Hawkesbury.
And even when we talked about gamekeepers catching poachers, and the poachers resisting, you kept it all dark." "Why, it was a serious thing to talk about, you see," said Saurin. "Well, I think you might have trusted me at all events," replied Edwards somewhat reproachfully. "Trust you! My dear fellow I would trust you with my life," said Saurin.
Senior, "If an Irish landlord reside on his estate he requires the services of certain persons, who must be also resident there to minister to his daily wants. He must have servants, gardeners, and, perhaps, gamekeepers.
He was beginning to understand Scottish tact and saw that Pete meant to give him a friendly warning. It was obvious that the policeman would not have set off across the hills in the dark of a winter morning unless he had been ordered to make inquiries. Moreover, since the gamekeepers had mistaken Foster for Pete, the orders had nothing to do with the poaching.
"Yes?" asked the Earl. "What, now! It shall be done." "Let some of your men take a look round your neighbourhood," answered the superintendent. "Gamekeepers, now they're the fellows! Just now we're having some grand moonlight nights. If your men would look about the country between here and Ellersdeane, now?
We want a man with the opportunities he had of mixing from childhood in London and in country houses with every grade and condition of men, with statesmen, soldiers, men of art, hunting men, racing men, schoolboys, undergraduates, literary men, gamekeepers, old family retainers every kind and sort of human being.
We must not be soldiers, nor sailors," she continued; "nay" with bitter irony "we may not be constables nor gamekeepers! The courts, the bar, the bench of our fatherland, are shut to us! We may have neither school nor college; the lands that were our fathers' must be held for us by Protestants, and it's I must have a Protestant guardian!
Village mothers frightened small children into good behaviour by threatening them that Rundle would come and take them away a name to conjure with. Little Langbourne only knew peace and felt secure when Rundle was undergoing one of his temporary retirements from activity, when, as a guest of the State, he cursed his luck and the gamekeepers who had been one too many for him.
Cosh was affectionately exhorted to have a tender care of his health and personal appearance, not to bully Lord Kilspindie's gamekeepers, nor to put his foot into a steel trap, nor to meddle with the rabbits, nor to fall into the Tay, but above all things not to tell lies.
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