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That was my old dog that grew up with me the faithfulest little chap in Lost Chief. I'd have paid you for the pelt and you know it. What did you shoot him for?" Charleton's jaws worked. "I'll show you and Scott and the whole valley that my traps and my hunts are not to be interfered with!" "Still you don't get the idea," Douglas was now not an arm's-length from Charleton.
So I takes hold of the string and hunts up a cop and tells him about it. And I says, 'He looks like a good dog, I says, 'I s'pose you can take him over to the station and leave him till the owner's found. And the cop says, 'Not for mine, he says, 'I ain't going off my beat to be a godfather to no dog. It belongs to Mr.
I know that the boy shoots with a pistol to admiration, hunts well, plays wonderfully at billiards, at chess, and at backgammon; he handles the foils, and rides a horse like the late Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He has a thorough knowledge of all our vintages. He is as good an arithmetician as Bareme, draws, dances, and sings well. The devil's in it! what more do you want?
As if its destruction by gunners singly was not rapid enough it was the custom in somewhat earlier days for whole neighborhoods to meet together for the wholesale slaughter of the sylvan creatures which still abounded. One of these great hunts took place in Medina County, in 1818, when the region was as yet very sparsely settled.
Observe how Aratus hunts up and brings together even the tiniest stars yet he does not exceed due limits. For his description is not an excursus, but the end and aim of the whole work. It is the same with myself, if I may compare my lowly efforts with their great ones.
Boar and stag hunts had no attraction for quiet men of business; forests stocked with wild beasts where vineyard and cornfield might have extended, would have seemed to them the very height of wastefulness, discomfort, and ugliness. Pacific and businesslike, they merely transferred to the country the habits of thought and of life which had arisen in the city.
Rogers, in his turn, learned the misfortunes of Selkirk and became attached to him; from this moment, the sailors themselves showed him great deference; he was known among them by the name of the governor, and this title clung to him. To do the honors of his island, the governor one day gave to the crews of the two vessels, the spectacle of one of his former hunts.
"If that feller I talked with, the one that hunts muskrats around here in the season, had been just half as smart as Paul, he never would a lost hisself in the swamps, and come near starving to death." "So say we all of us!" added Jotham. "That's as neat a compliment as I ever had paid me, boys; though I hardly think I deserve it, yet. Wait and see if we get lost, or not.
King Frederick, notwithstanding his refusal to send troops into Spain, was compelled to furnish an enormous contingent for the wars in eastern Europe; the conscription and taxes were heavily felt, and the peasant was vexed by the great hunts, celebrated by Matthisson, the court-poet, as festivals of Diana.
They returned at dusk, Earle with bulging game pockets, gun stuck under his arm, the setter trotting at his heels. They learned to know each other intimately, to respect each other's ability. "One in a million, that dog," was Earle's verdict. A sense of power, of superabundant life, of fulfilment tingled in his nerves and bones during these hunts.
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