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Arrived on the reef over which, by the way, there was plenty of water, four fathoms being the least the party had ever found upon it the expectant sportsman dropped his grapnel, lowered the sail, and threw his lines overboard.
Once, during our very first stay at Podgorica, we met an Austrian ornithologist and sportsman who told us a wonderful experience of his at Dulcigno with this very man, Marko Ivanković.
In both cases our “wish is father to the deed.” And if our arrogance insinuates that a bountiful Nature created these animals simply for our service, assuredly bountiful Nature left them in ignorance of the fact. And it is to the sportsman and the colt-breaker that we must apply, if we wish to know whose victims are the most willing.
Even in the excitement of sport regret cannot but be felt at the sight of those few drops of blood about the mouth which indicate that all this beautiful workmanship must now cease to be. Had he escaped the sportsman would not have been displeased.
The paragraph inserted in the agony column of the Journal, the Echo de Paris and the Matin runs, 'Am prepared to buy back the pictures." The count agreed with a nod. Once again, the young man was teaching his elders. M. Filleul showed himself a good sportsman. "There's no doubt about it, my dear sir," he exclaimed. "I'm beginning to think your school-fellows were not quite wrong.
From Malatzka I went, furnished with letters, to the seat of Prince Liechtenstein in Moravia Eisgrueb. He is one of the richest men in the Austrian dominions, having possessions in Moravia, Bohemia, and Hungary, and several houses in Vienna. A great sportsman, and in this point, at least, a great imitator of English manners.
Colonel Roosevelt used a Winchester .405 and a Springfield, both of which he considered most desirable. I think if I were to go again I should take a .405 as my second gun, heavy enough for all purposes except the close-quarter work where the big cordite double-barrels are necessary. The matter of a battery is one which each sportsman should determine for himself.
Even now, although baseball was a gentle game in comparison with football, he was not absolutely sure he could always deport himself as a gentleman and a sportsman while playing it.
This rarely happens, however, the bison being a huge, cowardly creature which prefers to run rather than fight, and a hunt of the game in these days often takes the character of wholesale butchery in which no true sportsman would engage.
These shoes were worthy of a sportsman, being light, yet strong, and were entirely composed of the skins of game of my shooting.
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