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But it's Gospel truth, whether she's bewitched or not; whether it's them damn fool stories she reads and it's like ez not he's just the kind o' snipe to write 'em hisself, and sorter advertise hisself, don't yer see she's allus stuck up for him.
The dog stood with one fore-paw lifted and the water dripping along his belly. He waited for a crack and puff of smoke and the thud of a bird falling into the water or the underwood. But his master did not fire; he did not even see the flushing of the snipe; so the dog came up and remonstrated with his eyes.
If he gives the first view to the Whalleys, I'll never speak to him again. Nothing else? Then have the phaeton at the door at half past five. I dine at Miss Hendy's, at Hammersmith." While Mr Pitskiver stepped up stairs, Snipe was going over in his own mind the different grammatical meanings of the words, "I'll give it you."
Very often we dispersed flocks of ducks and sent them flying over islands and forests to places of safety. Snipe were numerous, and so were several kinds of wading and swimming birds. Very often we saw high in air the wild geese of Siberia flying to the southward in those triangular squadrons that they form everywhere over the world.
Another point, another shot, and another snipe; and York and his master returned home; the gun was put in the corner, and the snipes close by, on the carpet. A dozen times, while his master was drinking his wine, York stole quietly to the corner, smelled the snipes, and examined the gun. From that day he gave up walking with the nursemaids, and became a matchless field dog.
My opera glass was of assistance in finding the birds in the grass; they were quite abundant almost within rifle-shot of town, and it seemed strange that the officers of the post did not devote their leisure to snipe hunting. Our snipe was cooked, for dinner, and equalled any I ever saw at Delmonico's.
Pat got a fine jack snipe, and I shot a Jheela, a very fine waterfowl with brown plumage, having a strong metallic, coppery lustre on the back, and a steely dark blue breast. The plumage was very thick and glossy, and it proved afterwards to be excellent eating.
We thought this a very hard thing, and for the following days were inclined to look at life as a rather tame, insipid business; but soon, to our joy, the ban was removed. In forbidding us the use of the guns my father had punished himself as well as us, since he never thoroughly enjoyed a meal breakfast, dinner, or supper unless he had a bird on the table, wild duck, plover, or snipe.
For you will see that at last, despite the malignant thrusts and obstacles of destiny, this gutter snipe of Gotham had come to a certain estate. When I left, he accompanied me slowly to the beach. "You ought to like it here," I said. "After all, the city could never have given you so much." "No," he said. Wide-eyed, he took in the azure immensity of the sea. "No.
His gaze wandered over their bowed forms "The Gaffer, David Faed, Dan Cooney, the Snipe, and and George Lashman in his bunk, of course and me." But, then, who was the seventh? He began to count. "There's myself Lashman, in his bunk David Faed, the Gaffer, the Snipe, Dan Cooney . . . One, two, three, four well, but that made seven. Then who was the seventh?
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