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This seemed to be true. The Golden Butterfly, making about sixty miles, was being rapidly left behind. "I should think you'd be afraid of overheating your cylinders," volunteered the lieutenant. Now, this was just what Mortlake was afraid of. But, as has been said, he was the sort of man who, in sporting parlance, was willing always "to take a chance" to beat any one he considered his rival.
This, I think, is sporting with Great Men, and Public Spirits, to the scandal of Religion, and reproach of Power: and if Sovereign Princes and Astrologers must make diversion for the vulgar, why then, Farewell, say I, to all Governments, Ecclesiastical and Civil! But, I thank my better stars!
Then he has the title before his name, and they put his photograph in the sporting papers. You know, of course, that I am a champion," says he. "I am Champion Woodstock Wizard III, and the two other Woodstock Wizards, my father and uncle, were both champions." "But I thought your name was Jimmy Jocks," I said. He laughs right out at that. "That's my kennel name, not my registered name," he says.
De Vasselot had taken the first steamer he could find at Marseilles, with a fine disregard for personal comfort, which was part of his military training and parcel of his sporting instincts. He was, like many islanders, a good sailor, for, strange as it may seem, a man may inherit from his forefathers not only a taste for the sea, but a stout heart to face its grievous sickness.
Later, when the wood began to be more strictly preserved for sporting purposes, the rabbits were allowed to increase excessively, and during the hard winters they attacked the hazel-trees, gnawing off the bark, until this most useful and profitable wood the forest produced the scrubby oaks having little value was well-nigh extirpated.
You have favoured myself, and the sporting world at large, with a werry rich high-flavoured account of the great Captain Barclay, and his extonishing coach, the "Defiance"; and being werry grateful to you for that and all other favours, past, present, and to come, I take up my grey goose quill to make it "obedient to my will," as Mr.
He was a sporting man, and had the misfortune to lose; that, I think, is the worst that can be said of him. About two years ago he went to his uncle and begged to be taken on in the office; he was sick of an idle life, he said. His uncle did not believe that he would do any good in the City, but consented to give him a trial.
There was a ponderous carved-oak bookcase on one side of the room; on all the others the paraphernalia of sporting gunnery and fishing-tackle, small-swords, whips, and boxing-gloves artistically arranged against the panelling; and over the mantelpiece an elaborate collection of meerschaum pipes.
#Wounds by Sporting Guns.# In the common sporting or scatter gun, with which accidents so commonly occur during the shooting season, the charge of small shot or pellets leave the muzzle of the gun as a solid mass which makes a single ragged wound having much the appearance of that caused by a single bullet.
I found the house even better than its reputation, and by far superior to the warren. We took a coach, and Patu said to the driver, "To Chaillot." "I understand, your honour." After a drive of half an hour, we stopped before a gate on which could be read, "Hotel du Roule." The gate was closed. A porter, sporting long mustachioes, came out through a side-door and gravely examined us.
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